The Riverside Museum | Main attractions and How to get there?

 

Main Attractions

Glasgow's Riverside Museum is a recognised transportation museum. There are more than 3,000 items on show, ranging from skateboards to trains, paintings to strollers, and automobiles to Stormtroopers.

The museum has also been accredited a 5 star visitor rating from VisitScotland.

The museum has lots to see for example: The South African locomotive. It was built by the North British Locomotive Company during 1945 and then was shipped to South Africa, the train then came back home to Scotland in 2006 and since then it has been sitting in the Riverside museum, educating the public on the history of the locomotive and Glasgow's history in helping create the modern world.

Another famous attraction (and my most favourite!) is the "Kelvin street".   

The "Kelvin street" is a replica of a 1930s street in Glasgow, you can experience what life was like back in the days. The street is fitted with a recreation of a pre-1970s subway, a theatre that plays retro Scottish transport adverts and many more! I really recommend coming to the museum to see this attraction alone.

Glasgow museum has a fantastic video showing the museum when it first opened

How to get there?

Train & Subway

The museum is quite a distance from the city centre, when I went to the museum, I went on the subway at St Enoch (which is approximately a 5 minute walk from Central Station, although if you are coming from Queen street you can get the subway at Buchanan Street subway, right at the station) and got off at Partick, the journey overall on the subway, lasts about 20 minutes, Partick subway station is also a train station so you can get there by train from Central Station and only takes approximately 7 minutes. 

A map showing the distance between Central Station and ST Enoch Subway station.

Another map showing the distance between Glasgow Queen Street and Buchanan Street Subway

A map showing the distance between the Bus Station and Buchanan street Subway

A map showing the walking distance between Partick subway and the Riverside museum

A map showing the distance between central station and Partick

Getting there by Bus

 These bus services( 2, 3, 8, 16, and  77)pick you up at Buchanan bus station and can drop you off at Partick Subway. Getting to the museum isn't as accessible as I know when I went, there was roadworks being done at the parking space nearest the Museum.

Starting at roughly 10.20am every day, the 100 service departs from George Square South, stop 609973, every 45 minutes. Glasgow-based Community Transport runs the service.

You could also get the City sightseeing bus

Photo from here

Tickets for the City Sightseeing Glasgow tour can be bought from your driver when you board the bus (cash or contactless) or from the sidewalk employees at George Square (Stop 1), who take both cash and credit cards.

Prices!

Adult         £16   £17

Concession £15 £16

Child          £9  £10

Family          £35  £37

There are 21 stations on the tour, which lasts about 90 minutes. At any of the stops, you can board and exit the bus.

Parking

The museum is equipped with a big car park but it does cost, its not as expensive as other car parks can be so that's a positive!

Monday to Sunday 8am – 6pm

1 hour                   £1.60

2 hours                 £3.20

3 hours                 £4.80

4 hours                 £6.40

5 hours                 £8.00

10 hours               £10.00