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GO Museums in Glasgow |
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From dinosaurs and ancient Egyptians, to 1950s trams
and football memorabilia, Glasgow’s museums have
got all the right ingredients to make your day out one
to remember. For starters there’s the Museum of Transport [map] right in the heart of the city centre, which is dubbed the best of its kind in Britain. It is home to an enormous collection of trams, buses, ships, circus caravans, bikes and prams, along with a recreated 1938 cobbled street featuring an old Italian coffee shop and an old-time Underground station. There is also a small cinema showing short historical documentaries about life in Glasgow. Across the road from here you’ll find the Kelvingrove Museum [map], which was built to house the 1888 International Exhibition. The collection here ranges from local historical art to Rodin sculptures, to natural history displays and a Storm Trooper costume from the original Star Wars films. However, please be aware that this museum is closed until early 2006 for refurbishment works. If you’re interested in ancient Egyptian history or the story of the Romans in Scotland then head to the Hunterian Museum [map] at Glasgow University. Opened in 1807 with funds and artefacts given to the university by William Hunter, this was the first public museum in Scotland. Along with Roman and Egyptian exhibitions, the permanent collection also includes displays on Captain Cook, dinosaurs and fossils, human evolution and a vast array of coins and medals. For a unique treasure located in the beautiful Victoria Park in the west of the city, try Fossil Grove, Glasgow's most ancient attraction. Here you can see the fossil trees, which are the remains of an ancient forest and are about 330 million years old. Scottish National Heritage has designated the grove a site of Special Scientific Interest. Visitorsto Fossil Grove can marvel at the 11 fossil tree stumps, some of them up to 90 centimetres high, preserved in the position in which they once grew. There's also a fallen trunk, about eight metres long, and other smaller fragments of branch and root that have also survived, which are the fossil remains of an extinct type of plant known as a Giant Clubmoss. For a taste of Glasgow’s social history you should visit the People's Palace [map] on Glasgow Green, which gives visitors the chance to see the story of the people and the city from 1750 to the present day. You can see paintings, prints and photographs displayed alongside a wealth of historic artefacts and film, with exhibitions focusing on dancing and holidaying, home life during World War II, and a trip to the steamie to get the clothes washed. You can also visit the 'single end' and discover how a family lived in this typical one-room Glasgow family home of the 1930s, and catch a glimpse of the amazing banana boots worn by Billy Connolly on stage in the 1970s. Glasgow is also home to the Heatherbank Museum [map], the only museum in Europe that is dedicated entirely to social work and welfare. This museum tells the story of many aspects of social care and welfare developments in Scotland over the past 200 years and preserves social work archives, artefacts, costumes, photographs and journals. There are also models of poorhouses, tenements and lodging houses so you can see exactly how people used to live. To explore the importance of religion in people’s lives across the world and through the ages, check out the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art [map] on Castle Street. The aim of the museum is to promote understanding and respect between people of different faiths, and it achieves this through its three main exhibitions: the Gallery of Religious Art, the Gallery of Religious Life and the Scottish Gallery. In the Gallery of Religious Art you can marvel at the world famous painting 'Christ of St John of The Cross' by Salvador Dali and reflect on the awesome figure of the Hindu god Shiva - Lord of the Dance, while the Gallery of Religious Life explores the world's six main religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism. The Scottish Gallery presents the fascinating story of how religion has shaped the culture and beliefs of people in the West of Scotland from earliest times to the present. And if all that wasn’t enough to keep you going for a week, Glasgow also plays host to the Scotland Street School Museum [map], which uncovers the history of education in Scotland. Here you can learn the story of Scotland Street Public School and the developments in education in Scotland through a combination of displays, audio-visuals and reconstructed classrooms. For those of you who are fascinated by the ‘beautiful game’, the Scottish Football Museum [map] at Hampden Park, Scotland’s national stadium, is a must see. There is an extensive collection of memorabilia, video clips and displays covering almost every aspect of the game and its importance in Scotland. You can also enjoy a guided tour of the stadium while you are there. |
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