Museum of Transport
1 Bunhouse Road
Glasgow,
G3 8DP
Tel: 0141 287 2720
Email: museums@csglasgow.org
Admission: NOW CLOSED
Opening hours: NOW CLOSED
The Museum of Transport is now CLOSED as all of its objects are being moved to the new Riverside Museum (opening spring 2011), the new home of Glasgow’s transport collections.
Glasgow’s Museum of Transport is one of the most popular museums of transport in the British Isles.
Situated in the Kelvin Hall, the Transport Museum attracts half a million visitors a year. It was founded in 1964 and houses many exhibits of national and international importance.
The museum uses its collections of vehicles and models to tell the story of transport by land and sea, with a unique Glaswegian flavour. Here you will find the oldest surviving pedal cycle and the finest collection in the world of Scottish-built cars. They include such world-famous makes as Argyll, Arrol Johnson and Albion.
The breadth of the collection is impressive. It features all forms of transport from horse-drawn vehicles to buses and fire engines, and from motorcycles to caravans. Even toy cars and prams are included.
The Clyde Room contains some 250 fascinating ship models. They represent the huge contribution of the River Clyde and its shipbuilders and engineers to the world of maritime trade. From the Comet of 1812 to fabulous builders models of the Hood, Howe, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2, the Clyde Room reflects the proud boast ‘Clyde built’.
Locomotive manufacture was also an important Glasgow industry, and the museum celebrates our railway heritage. You can see an impressive collection of famous locomotives. These include the Caledonian Railway Caley No.123 single driver, the Highland Railway No.103 the Jones Goods and the Gordon Highlander No.49 of the Great North of Scotland Railway.
Much loved by visitors from far and wide are the famous Glasgow trams, the ‘Subway’ station and Kelvin Street. You can recapture the atmosphere of old Glasgow.
The Museum of Transport has been a firm favourite with generations of Glasgow children and their parents. For an entertaining day out it really does have something for all the family.
Riverside Museum Project
A new Museum of Transport on the Clyde is under development by Glasgow Museums in collaboration with other Council departments and Glasgow Harbour Ltd. The Riverside Museum will be a landmark museum which create a more accessible and environmentally stable home for Glasgow’s significant Transport and Technology collections, and for the first time allow the proper interpretation of Glasgow’s important maritime history through the museum site, the Glenlee tall ship and our unique ship model collection. F ind out more about the Riverside Museum.
My family came over from Australia & as you do I took them to a few hot spots of Glasgow. But by far the best was the Museum of Transport, the old buses , cars and taxis were amazing, and as for the old street it was so real I felt as though I was back in the old times of Glasgow.
The staff were very helpful and the gift shop was very cheap which was also a hit with my Aussie family.
As it was a sunny day as soon as we came out there was an ice cream van so the day was a huge hit with the family.
During the October break I took my two kids aged 6 and 11 to the museum. It was a trip down memory lane for myself as I remember times when I had visited the museum as a child. My daughter had recently completed a topic in school about the war and when her gran was a girl she found the street with the shops and cinema very intersting. My son was amazed that P.C. Plums bike was in the museum and loved the buses and trams. We had a great time and spent longer in it than I had thought we might.
Its a Fab day out for all the family from the youngest to the oldest memeber. Was a real experience being able to see the ways in which transport has adapted.
I went with my family from America to view the transport museum and i found it magnificent, the new style of train that is coming out in 2010 looked really good, at the time there scotrail workers were in the train discussing the angle of the bin and they asked for my input which i gave, stating a good idea to the best location for the bin. The workers were impressed with my idea and stated that they would think about this and put it towards there next meeting.
When leaving the transport museum i had a letter which needed posted and inside the museum they have the oldest working post box in glasgow, i thought this was brilliant therefore i posted my letter which was stamped this letter has been posted from the oldest post box in glasgow. My family from America had the best day ever and so did i.