The Riverside Museum, a new housing for Glasgow’s Museum of Transport, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, opened in 2011. It reflects the Tall Ship, moored beside it on the River Clyde.
“The Museum, a sectional extrusion open at both ends, its outline encapsulating a wave or pleat, flows from city to waterfront, symbolizing dynamic relationship between Glasgow and the ship-building, sea-faring and industrial legacy of the River Clyde. Clear glass facades allow light to flood throigh the main exhibition spaces.
Zaha Hadid Architects
The Museum of Transport in Glasgow originally opened in 1964, and was then located in a former tram depot in Pollockshields. In 1987, it moved to the Kelvin Hall before moving to its custom-built home on Pointhouse Quay in the Glasgow Harbour area of the river.
“The Riverside Museum is a fantastic project where the exhibits and building come together at this prominent and historic location on the Clyde waterfront. The complex geometries of the extruded design continue Glasgow’s rich engineering traditions and will be a part of the city’s future as a centre of innovation.”
Dame Zaha Hadid
In 2013, by which time over two million people had visited the museum, the Riverside Museum won the prestigious European Museum of the Year Award for it’s ability to “demonstrate brilliantly how a specialist transport collection can renew its relevance through active engagement with the wider social and universal issues.”
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