Transport Museum

Ah, the Transport Museum. As someone who grew up just outside Glasgow, this has always held special significance for my family. For me, it was because there was nowhere more fascinating for a car-daft kid to go than a museum stuffed full of them. For my parents, it was because the promise of a visit to the Transport Museum was a stick-on certainty to make me behave myself. Back in those days (and we're talking 20+ years now), we would visit the ...
...young enough, prams count as transport don't they?). Beyond this are three long rooms filled with model ships. Glasgow once had a great shipbuilding industry, and all of the city's famous ships are faithfully recreated in miniature inside the glass cases. On a separate gallery at the other end of the museum there's a small café, which is unspectacular but not too costly by museum café/restaurant standards. Likewise the museum shop on the ground ...

redhillier 10.04.2005 · Read full review
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...GETTING THERE The transport museum is very accessable and is located across the road from the Kelvingrove Art Gallery (which is closed until June2006 for refurbishment) and is located directly behind the Kelvin Hall Sports Arena. If coming by car there is a huge amount of parking space with designated disabled spaces but note that there are hospitals and a university close by and a lot of the parking spaces are taken up by these people so it can ...
...sells a huge range of transport museum memorabilia. It also have very reasonably priced knick knacks for kids and sweets. Postcards and stamps are available here too so you can send them off to relatives from the old postbox if you are on holiday. There is now a new packed lunch and resting space on the lower floor of the gallery with vending machines but your own food can be consumed there. It is very basic and has plastic garden table and chairs ...

jackie1969uk 28.02.2006 · Read full review
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...of my favourite was the Transport Museum. I thought I'd take him there, as we had nothing to do, and I thought it might interest him. "Not a museum!!!!" was the response, what’s so bad about them I ask?? No answer?! I dragged him along and he was amazed. Its great to keep them quiet for an hour or two! He saw the old cars, the new cars, what happens when a 'cut and shut' car crashes head on, racing cars, future cars, everything!! There are ...

Amanda_Fowler1 20.03.2001 · Read full review
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...a really interesting piece of transport history and well worth going to see. There is a reconstruction of an old Glasgow Street with real cobbles, and various shop fronts. There is also an old cinema that you can sit in. It seems to always show the same film, about old Glasgow, but when you're tired of trudging around it's nice to sit down for a while in the dark. When you've finished there, you can walk across the street and take the underground. ...
...different eras. But unfortunately for me they haven't been able to recreate the old subway smell that I remember from my childhood. Once you've seen all the cars, trams, buses, trams, ships etc, you can visit the little shop where you can buy mementos of your visit. reasonably priced and there are lots of things for kids to buy. Onto more practical matters can I point out that there is disabled access now, with lifts at different points of the ...

gillian6052 29.09.2004 · Read full review
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