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Tramway's long sandstone front on Albert Drive with its arched doorways.
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The old Coplawhill tram depot of 1893 in Pollokshields, a home for contemporary art and performance since Peter Brook's Mahabharata in 1988.

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On Albert Drive in Pollokshields, a long sandstone shed with great arched doorways was built in 1893 as the Coplawhill tram shed, the main terminus, depot and works of Glasgow's trams.

When the trams went it became the Museum of Transport, and when the museum moved on, the space was taken over for the only UK performances of Peter Brook's Mahabharata in 1988.

That set its course. Tramway was made into a home for contemporary art and performance in time for Glasgow's year as European City of Culture in 1990, and its vast old halls, where the tram rails still show in the floor, have since held Andy Goldsworthy's Snowballs in Summer, the Glasgow International festival and, in 2015, the Turner Prize. Exhibitions, dance and theatre come and go through the year, and through its doors at the back is the Hidden Gardens, a quiet walled garden made on the rest of the old tram works.

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Exhibitions, dance and theatre run through the year; see Tramway's own listings for what is on and when.

The Hidden Gardens are reached through the building.

Where
25 Albert Drive, Pollokshields.
Next door
The Hidden Gardens.

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Where it is

Albert Drive in Pollokshields, on Glasgow's south side.

Close byA short walk away.
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  2. The Hidden GardensThe Hidden GardensThe peace garden on the old tram works behind the building.Under a mile 1 min by road
  3. Maxwell Park in Pollokshields in autumn, low sun through golden trees behind reeds at the edge of the pond.PollokshieldsOne of Britain's first garden suburbs, all around.Under a mile 1 min by road
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