Glasgow Photo Gallery - Riverside Museum

A 10 minute walk from Partick subway station, the Riverside Museum is well worth the trek, even though I only had a morning left in Glasgow to sightsee and this museum only opens at 10am.

It is located on the Clyde's banks, where Glasgow's shipbuilding industry was once based. With a fantastic collection of historic vehicles from buses and trams to cars, the building is an architectural masterpiece by Zaha Hadid that opened in 2011 and named European Museum of the Year in 2013.

Tramcar 672 is amongst the city's first electric trams and debuted in 1898, becoming a maintenance vehicle in 1907.

Like many British cities, double decker trams once ran on Glasgow's streets.

This van participated in the Salaam festival of Islamic culture and art in 1997, with the Pakistani artist collaborating with local art students to decorate it in the Karachi style.

There was a wave of immigration from India and Pakistan in the 1950s and 60s. With a shortage of transport workers, many applied to bus jobs.

The Metrocab dates from the 1980s and was designed to carry people in wheelchairs.

An old retired subway train is also on display. Glasgow's subway network is the world's 3rd oldest after London and Budapest and has recently rolled out new vehicles.

I was impressed by a historic street set up with horse carriages and shops mimicking what life was like in the early 20th century.