| Comment | On a non rainy day, if possible, head to the Lighthouse, on Mitchell Street. It's the old Herald newspaper offices and print house, now a museum/events space, with a brilliant view of the whole city at the top of the old stone tower on the roof.
Main museums you should check out:
Kelvingrove Art Gallery - mixed city museum, with artwork, natural history, Scottish history.
Riverside Museum - new home for the city's transport museum. It does an amazing job of telling the story of the city through transport big and small, from ships that were built on the Clyde, to trams, buses, trains, police cars, all sorts. Loads of interactive stuff, and there's a mini old fashioned street with shops that looks like it's 1895 - complete with a model old fashioned subway station (and subway car).
People's Palace (in Glasgow Green) - out of the way compared to the others, but is the best "Glasgow specific" museum, with tonnes of great stuff about the city's cultural and societal history. It has a brilliant greenhouse garden in the back as well, where you can sit with a coffee. |
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