The Riverside Museum .Glasgow.

Glasgow, very much like Birmingham in many ways, eager to be something, and lost in its slightly suffocating architecture. You dither around the complicated inner city road network to get there, but its worth the effort. Its a spacious modern complex with good parking and free admission!. Its an eclectic mix of all sorts really, not just Scottish manufacturing history, but oddities like a VW beetle?, and its lack of desire to associate itself with the Royal Navy also confused me, especially when your consider up to 8,000 people are employed on the Clyde, and may indeed lose there jobs if Scotland rather un-wisely  chooses independence. Lots of boys Toys like whacking great big Trains and a gorgeous thirties Bentley and Lagonda. I was pleased to see a Scottish made Hillman Imp.
                                            The high light for me was in fact touring around the tall ship 'The Glenlee' built in 1896, again an evocative walkabout, there's the cargo holds, crews quarters and officers quarters, a built in modern but excellent play area for excitable children and a cafe. It survives on donations, and offers nothing but a fabulous insight into life at sea and Clyde built history.