Museum of Transport

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  • Address
    1 Bunhouse Rd, West End
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  • Phone
    287 2720
  • Transport
    train: Partick Station
bus: 9, 16, 18, 42, 62, 64

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Lonely Planet review

Across Argyle St from the Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery is the surprisingly interesting and very comprehensive, but badly signposted, Museum of Transport. Not convinced? It's actually a very fine museum with exhibits including a reproduction of a 1938 Glasgow street scene, a display of cars made in Scotland, plus assorted railway locos, trams, bikes (including the world's first pedal-powered bicycle from 1847) and model ships. There's a room dedicated to the Clyde shipyards.

It's like peeping through a porthole at the not too distant past. Note that the museum is due to be incorporated into a new Riverside Museum down at Glasgow Harbour, sometime in 2008.