Riverside Museum

Zaha Hadid won the competition to design it in 2004, and it opened in June 2011; the sharp bend in its plan draws out the walk between the city and the river.

Inside, it is all wheels and rails: trams and buses, carriages, cars and fire engines, a ring of bicycles circling overhead, and a street of old Glasgow to wander down, with its shops, houses and even a subway station. Two years after opening it was named European Museum of the Year. Entry is free and there is a café looking out over the river. Moored alongside is the Tall Ship Glenlee, a sailing cargo ship that spent sixty years as a training vessel for the Spanish Navy and can be boarded for a small charge.