The project involved relocating Glasgow’s Museum of Transport to a new building, designed by Zaha Hadid, on the Clyde. This landmark building on the Clyde has display space, education workshop facilities, lifelong learning and library facilities, café and retail space.
The project also added an extension to the acclaimed Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, in Nitshill, providing high-quality public access to Glasgow’s outstanding civic collection. Because of this work it stores around 50,000 objects and 750,000 natural history specimens that were originally stored in the old Museum of Transport and were inaccessible to the public.
The Riverside Museum represents and interprets Glasgow’s internationally important shipbuilding and maritime history and the vital role of the River Clyde and of Glasgow people in that history.
It houses more than 3,000 exhibits in over 150 interactive displays. From massive steam locomotives, to the recreation of a city street during the 1900s, the cathedral-like structure provides a stunning backdrop to showcase the innovation and ambition of what was the ‘Second City of the Empire’.
Glasgow Museum has used this project to further expand its community involvement and audience development. The flexible display of the museum now allows for changing displays in line with visitor interests, and also provides audiences with the opportunity to be involved in choosing the stories that are told about the objects in the museum.