Riverside Museum

Riverside Museum
Riverside Museum Glasgow EC2018
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EstablishedApril 14, 1964; 60 years ago (1964-04-14) (as Glasgow Museum of Transport) June 21, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-06-21) (as Riverside Museum)
Location100 Pointhouse Road, Partick, Glasgow, G3 8RS, Scotland,[1] (The site overlaps Yorkhill Quay to the east)
Collection size3,000 objects
Visitors1,364,739 (2019)[2]
Public transit accessGlasgow Subway National Rail Partick
Glasgow Subway Govan
Websitewww.glasgowlife.org.uk

The Riverside Museum (replacing the preceding Glasgow Museum of Transport) is a museum in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland,[1] housed in a building designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, with its River Clyde frontage at the new Pointhouse Quay. It forms part of the Glasgow Harbour regeneration project. The building opened in June 2011, winning the 2013 European Museum of the Year Award. It houses many exhibits of national and international importance. The Govan–Partick Bridge, provides a pedestrian and cycle path link from the museum across the Clyde to Govan, opened in 2024.

  1. ^ a b "Plan a visit to Riverside Museum". Glasgow Life. 16 August 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Latest Visitor Figures: Visits made in 2019 to Visitor Attractions in Membership with ALVA". www.alva.org.uk. UK: ALVA – Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. Retrieved 23 October 2020.