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 ... Read review
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Advantages: Free and fascinating Disadvantages: Parking is a nuisance (ironically enough)
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 ... ...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 ... more
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 museum a couple of times a year. It was located about oh, half a mile from its current home at the Kelvin Hall, in a long, low building that in hindsight didn't really have enough room to show off the various cars, motorbikes, bicycles, trains etc properly. But that didn't matter, as there was always plenty to see, and always something you'd forgotten about from your last visit and were pleasantly surprised to see this time.
Then in the late 80s, it moved to its new home. It seemed odd at first, but nowadays looking at it through an adult's eyes - and after more than ten years of not having visited the place - I can see that it works.
Parking near the Kelvin Hall is a nuisance, but fortunately there's an Underground station nearby. Entrance to the museum is free (just as it always was), but there's a donations box inside the door if you feel like making a contribution towards the upkeep of the place. Like most good museums, the interior is airy and well-lit, with a large open space in the middle and galleries round the walls.
The ground floor is naturally where the bigger exhibits are displayed. Old Glasgow trams, trains (including a royal carriage from the days of King George V), horse-drawn vehicles (including an old horse-drawn fire engine and a Romany caravan), vans, lorries and cars of all ages. Pride of place amongst the latter (which are housed in a 1960s-style car showroom) goes to an old Tyrrel F1 car, the one in which Sir Jackie Stewart won the Formula 1 world championship in 1973.
Climbing the stairs to the galleries brings you at first to smaller land vehicles. Veteran bicycles and motorbikes sit alongside a hundred years' worth of prams (think about it: if you're 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 floor sells all of the things you'd expect to find in a museum shop (although there are one or two unexpected gems as well).
Heading out towards the door, you could almost miss one of the highlights of the museum if you didn't know where it was. A replica Glasgow street, complete with cobblestones and 1930s lamp-posts. Replicas of old shop windows are filled with genuine goods from the 1900s onwards. Older relatives of mine have commented on how they remember this-or-that displayed in the window, and I personally remember seeing the old Albion lorries (one of which is parked here) trundling about the streets of central Scotland when I was a youngster.
The street also contains a replica 1950s cinema frontage, which when you go inside turns out to be a working cinema, where the museum shows educational films to parties of schoolchildren. Opposite the cinema, follow the sign for the Underground and you end up on a reconstructed Underground platform, flanked by restored 1930s underground carriages (complete with uncomfy-looking wooden seats).
Back outside, standing on a REAL Glasgow street this time, you just can't escape that feeling that you're seven years old again. And for that reason alone, the Transport Museum is a must-see.
Advantages: Free, kids and adults love it. Disadvantages: never found any yet
...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
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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
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Advantages: lots for children to do, and free Disadvantages: none
...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
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