City’s transport museum reaches 1,000,000 visitors landmark

GLASGOW’s new £74 million transport museum has notched up its millionth visitor since opening its doors on 25 June.

The Riverside Museum, which replaced the old Museum of Transport at the Kelvin Hall, reached the landmark figure just days after the new-look National Museum of Scotland reached the same milestone.

More than 15,000 people visited the Riverside, which was designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, on its opening day, and council bosses in the city say there has been a “phenomenal” response to the attraction.

The attraction, which has been built by the banks of the Clyde, features some 3,000 exhibits in around 150 separate displays. The SV Glenlee tall ship has been relocated to a new berth outside the museum.

Council leader Gordon Matheson met the millionth visitor, seven-year-old Sam Irvine, from Dumfries, yesterday.

Mr Matheson said: “The public response has been phenomenal and the museum has coped brilliantly.

“Riverside has already comprehensively beaten even the most optimistic visitor number projections and is firmly established as another ‘must see’ attraction in Glasgow and Scotland.”