Glasgow Riverside museum

Cultural & Heritage

Jun 21

2025

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Social event with some short walking.

Glasgow Museum of Transport has had many locations over the years starting in 1964 in what is now the Tramway Theatre, before moving to the Kelvin Hall. It now has a permanent home on the banks of the river Clyde. The Riverside Museum is Glasgow's award-winning transport and technology museum. It is the first purpose-built museum created by Glasgow Life in the 21st century. The building opened in 2011 and has many exhibits of national and international importance.

There is another transport related exhibition nearby on the other side of the river. With the recently opened Govan footbridge, this is now a short walk from our main event.

Fairfield Heritage is a community museum dedicated to telling the story of Govan’s outstanding role in world shipbuilding. It closes at 4pm therefore we will make this out first stop. Explore the very building that was once the headquarters of the greatest shipbuilding enterprise in the world. The Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd, which in the late 19th and early 20th centuries revolutionised sea transportation, building the largest and fastest vessels the world had ever seen.

After Fairfields we'll pass the Govan Stones which are not transport related, but worth a quick look. The carved stones come from the surrounding 1,500-year-old early medieval churchyard and include the Govan Sarcophagus, five Anglo-Scandinavian style Viking-Age hogbacks, four upright crosses, the 'Govan Warrior' carving, and a wide range of recumbent cross-slab burial monuments, with most seemingly dating to between the 9th and 11th centuries AD.

Photos: taken by Brendan70

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