Transport museum's 500,000 visitors 16 | 08 | 2011

SCOTLAND'S NEW TRANSPORT museum has attracted more than half a million visitors in its first seven weeks. The £74 million Riverside Museum, on the Clyde in the centre of Glasgow, has seen around 10,000 people pass through its doors daily since it opened on June 21.

The building, designed by architect Zaha Hadid and which replaced the former Museum of Transport at Kelvin Hall, has more than 3000 exhibits, including cars, trains, bicycles and period streets.

To put the transport museum's success into perspective, over the course of 2010, Edinburgh Castle attracted more than 1.2 million people while Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow drew in just over one million.

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"The Riverside Museum has been a huge hit since the day it opened to the public," councillor Gordon Matheson, leader of Glasgow City Council, said.

"We knew just how much visitors loved the Museum of Transport at Kelvin Hall, but even so, the reaction to the Riverside Museum has been phenomenal.

"The feedback from people has been overwhelmingly positive and we are already seeing visitors returning time and again to enjoy Glasgow's latest attraction."

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Jim McGill