Glasgow Transport Museum

[Posh Pete]

Popped in a couple of weekends ago. Bike parking spaces right by the front entrance. The interior is a bit squashed with exhibits and a colour scheme like the 1100GS snotter scooter / vomit comet shade of green but it has a couple of nice old bikes ...

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A wee reminder that BMWs (Beardmore Motor Works!) were once made in Glesca ...

Let down a bit though by this totally unnecessary bit of anti bike scare propaganda ...

 

[alistairl]

I had a brief visit in August (timed it wrong and arrived 15 minutes before closing time) and came away a bit unsure about their representation of bikes but I guess I am biased, and it is a lot more modern than the old Kelvin place.

To only feature grass tracking as a motorcycle racing exhibit was an interesting choice, with the road racing heritage that Scotland has in spite of its weather.

Like Kelvingrove Museum and the National Museum of Scotland I feel that the new refurbs are all catering to a younger audience which will hopefully maintain footfall but has erased the little bit of nostalgia I had for their old layouts.

A.

 

[AberdeenAngus]

It's moved hasn't it ?
Where is it now ?

 

[hank]

Looks like they can't be bothered to keep air in the tyres of the bikes on display, so I won't bother visiting.

 

[Packer]

It's moved hasn't it ?
Where is it now ?

Clydeside, it can be reached directly from the Clyde Expressway A814.

Worth a short visit but in all honesty it's a monument to artistic willie waving by the architects and designers. IMO museums like this should be all about getting up close to the exhibits and seeing into them, smelling them, "feeling" them albeit without touching. Many of the exhibits are set 20 to 30 feet high on shelves cantilevered from the wall. They are just used as bits of engineering art.

It's basically a crap motor museum now, it's been going downhill ever since it was taken out of the old tramworks at Albert Road. The premises were dire but there was an astounding number of displays and you could get close to them and see them properly. You could loose youself for a day in that place. An hour, two max at the new one and you'll have seen it all.

I would guess that here is only about 20% of the exhibits they had at Albert Street in the new museum. Masses of trains, trams, model ships as well as bikes and cars are nowhere to be seen. Probably flogged off to pay for councillors to go on a jolly to the Maldives or something.

Whoever was responsible for signing off the new building design should be fired.

 

[hank]

Clydeside, it can be reached directly from the Clyde Expressway A814.

museums like this should be all about getting up close to the exhibits and seeing into them, smelling them, "feeling" them albeit without touching. .

If you really want to see how a musem should be run then make the effort and take a trip to Sammy Millers http://www.sammymiller.co.uk/ where you can smell the oil and rubber. Sammy's is a private collection and is untouched by politically correct council arts administration officers or consultants.