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Riverside Museum

Riverside Museum is a transport museum in Glasgow. Footfall in 2015 was 1.1M. Close by, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is 1 km away, one of 94 within 15 km.

Photo: Riverside Museum, Cutkiller2018 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where

In Glasgow

inside the locality

Visitors a year

1.1M

in 2015 (Wikidata)

How well known

Top 2%

#99 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jun–Aug

highs of 18–19°C

In brief

Museum in Glasgow

One of the best-known places to visit in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

#99 of the 8,556 museums, castles, gardens and other attractions we list, by how widely it is covered (20 Wikipedias). About ↓

Inside Glasgow

Riverside Museum is inside Glasgow’s locality, with 54 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NRS’s localities and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Weather through the year

Highs of 18–19°C mark June to August in Glasgow.

Jan7° / 2°121 mm

Feb8° / 2°99 mm

Mar10° / 3°85 mm

Apr12° / 5°62 mm

May16° / 7°67 mm

Jun18° / 10°69 mm

Jul19° / 12°84 mm

Aug19° / 11°91 mm

Sep17° / 9°89 mm

Oct13° / 7°121 mm

Nov9° / 4°114 mm

Dec7° / 2°128 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Glasgow, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Glasgow. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Glasgow’s full climate →

About

Riverside Museum

It is written up in 20 Wikipedias.

Type: Museum
Visitors: 1.1M visitors a year (2015)
Wikipedias: Covered in 20 languages
Town: in Glasgow
Official site: glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/riverside

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Where Riverside Museum is

Orange: Riverside Museum.

Towns near it

Towns that count Riverside Museum

Glasgow tops the 8 for size, at 617,904 people. The town it is in comes first, then the others whose pages list it, nearest first.

1 · It’s in town

Glasgow

617,904 people · 101 places to visit

2 · 3.9 km west of it

Renfrew

23,812 people · 28 places to visit

3 · 4.1 km north of it

Bearsden

28,507 people · 25 places to visit

4 · 4.4 km west of it

Paisley

79,351 people · 27 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Riverside Museum is	People	Places to visit
Glasgow	It’s in town	617,904	101
Renfrew	3.9 km west of it	23,812	28
Bearsden	4.1 km north of it	28,507	25
Paisley	4.4 km west of it	79,351	27
Thornliebank	6.8 km south of it	4,084	20
Giffnock	7 km south of it	11,963	25
Netherlee	7.3 km south of it	4,493	19
Bishopbriggs	7.4 km northeast of it	23,759	39

Make a day of it

Combine it with these

Also close at hand are 3 museums, 3 cathedrals and an art gallery, among 94 within 15 km.

Big drawMuseumKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum1 km away · 1M visitors a year 2

MuseumGlasgow School of Art2.6 km away 3

CathedralGlasgow Cathedral4.5 km away 4

Big drawArt galleryGallery of Modern Art3.4 km away · 596K visitors a year 5

CathedralSt Andrew's Cathedral3.5 km away 6CathedralCathedralSt Mary's Cathedral2.2 km away 7

GardenGlasgow Botanic Gardens1.9 km away 8

MuseumHunterian Museum1.3 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Questions before you go

Where is Riverside Museum?

Riverside Museum is in Glasgow, Glasgow City, inside the town’s locality.

What is Riverside Museum?

Transport museum in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

How many people visit Riverside Museum?

About 1.1M visitors a year, in 2015 (the latest count on Wikidata).

When is the best time to visit Riverside Museum?

June to August are the warmest months in Glasgow, with afternoon highs of 18–19°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Riverside Museum?

Within 15 km: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (1 km), Glasgow School of Art (2.6 km), Glasgow Cathedral (4.5 km) and Gallery of Modern Art (3.4 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the NRS 2022 locality (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (8)

Riverside Museum: Cutkiller2018, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Glasgow School of Art: Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Glasgow Cathedral: Bewahrerderwerte, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Gallery of Modern Art: BrainiacBlink, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Andrew's Cathedral: Michal Klajban, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Glasgow Botanic Gardens: Finlay McWalter, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Hunterian Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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