Riverside Museum

The Riverside Museum is Glasgow's transport and technology museum, housed in a spectacular building by Zaha Hadid Architects that won the European Museum of the Year Award in 2013. The collection covers Glasgow's transport history in full: locomotives, trams, cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and a remarkable recreated Glasgow street scene of the 1890s–1930s with original shopfronts, a pub, a subway station, and a pawnbroker all assembled under one roof.

Outside on the river, the tall ship Glenlee — a three-masted barque built in Glasgow in 1896 — is moored as a floating exhibit. The Riverside Museum sits on the north bank of the Clyde at the point where several of the city's major shipyards once stood; the museum is partly an act of collective memory for a city that defined itself by what it built on this river. Free admission.

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A story
Glasgow built more ships than any other city in the world during the Victorian and Edwardian eras — the Clyde-built ships included the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth, and the Lusitania. The Riverside Museum sits on the north bank of the Clyde where the great shipyards once stood, a deliberate act of urban memory. The distinctive zigzag roof by Zaha Hadid is meant to evoke the corrugated sheds of the shipbuilding yards; the museum inside tells the story of what those yards built and what happened to the city when they closed.