Travel Reference
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Police
Station
5
Tenement
House
Cowcaddens
M I L T O N S
T R E E T
National
Piping
Centre
Glasgow
School
of Art
Royal Scottish
Academy for
Music & Drama
Theatre
Royal
McLellan
Galleries
Glasgow
Film Theatre
King's
Theatre
Centre for
Contemporary Arts
Willow
Tea Rooms
Charing
Cross
Station
B LY T HSWOOD
SQU ARE
M
Central
Station
Anderston
Station
The
Lighthouse
Arches Theatre
St Enoch
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0
250
yards
the back, was purpose-built as a museum back in 1898 - almost a century before the
rest of the country caught on to the fashion for social history collections. Many of the
displays are designed to instil a warm glow in the memories of locals: the museum is
refreshingly unpretentious and Glaswegian families almost always outnumber visitors.
You'll find displays of everything from a wartime Anderson shelter to Billy Connolly's
big banana boots. An entertaining sound-and-light show reconstructs a “single-end” or
