The Riverside Museum is a planned new development for the Glasgow Museum of Transport, currently under construction in the Glasgow Harbour regeneration district of Glasgow, Scotland. The Glasgow Museum of Transport Technology is located in the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow Harbour is an urban regeneration scheme at Partick in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

Contents 1 Concept and design 2 Funding 3 Construction 4 Collection 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Concept and design

The Riverside Museum is expected to attract up to 1 million visitors a year, by creating a more accessible and environmentally stable home for Glasgow's significant Transport and Technology collections, including exhibiting stored materials not currently on public display. The location within Glasgow Harbour celebrates the river Clyde, and also means that existing collection and visiting craft will be able to berth alongside the museum. ^[1]

Proposed to be opening in 2011 to cope with the expanded collection, currently partly housed in Kelvin Hall, the museum site by the River Clyde will house a new structure designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and engineers Buro Happold. The Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland, is a mixed-use arts and sports venue that opened as an exhibition centre in 1927 The River Clyde ( Gaelic: Abhainn Chluaidh, avɪɲˈxɫ̪uəj is a major River in Scotland. Zaha Hadid (زها حديد CBE (born October 31 1950 Baghdad, Iraq) is a notable British Iraqi deconstructivist Architect Buro Happold is a professional services firm providing Engineering consultancy Design, planning project management and consulting services for all aspects of ^[2]

Funding

Of the £74million needed for the development of the Riverside Museum, Glasgow City Council and the Heritage Lottery Fund have committed £69million. Politics in Glasgow, Scotland, are evident in the deliberations and decisions of the city council of Glasgow ( Glaschu in Gaelic) The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF is a fund established in the United Kingdom under the National Lottery etc The Riverside Museum Appeal is a charitable trust established to raise the final £5,000,000 in sponsorship and donations from companies, trusts and individuals for the development of the museum. A charitable trust is a trust established for charitable purposes and is a more specific term than " charitable organisation " The Riverside Museum Appeal Trust is recognised as a Scottish Charity SC 033286. ^[3]

Construction

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Collection

As well as housing the existing collections of the Glasgow Museum of Transport, the city has acquired additional items to enhance the experience:

• L. S. Lowry: Cranes and Ships, Glasgow Docks – acquired at Christie's in November 2005 for £198,400, the painting is presently on display at the Kelvin Hall. Laurence Stephen Lowry (1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976 was an English Artist born on Barrett Street Stretford, Lancashire. Christie's is a leading art business and a fine arts Auction house The 1947 work was bought with the help of Glasgow businessman Willie Haughey of City Refrigeration Holdings, and a £20,000 grant from the National Art Collections Fund. William Haughey OBE (born 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish Businessman and chairman of City Refrigeration Holdings ^[5]
• SAR Class 15F 4-8-2 steam locomotive, No. Under the Whyte notation for the classification of Steam locomotives a 4-8-2 Locomotive has four Leading wheels (generally arranged in a A steam locomotive is a Locomotive powered by Steam. The term usually refers to its use on Railways but can also refer to a "road locomotive" 3007 - built by North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow in 1945, the locomotive was a gift from South African railways operator Spoornet to the project. The North British Locomotive Company of Scotland (NBL or North British was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow companies Sharp Stewart The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Among Transnet 's railway service divisions are Protekon, a transport infrastructure design company Transnet Rail Engineering (formerly Transwerk Presently residing in George Square, as part of the effort to raise the £5million public contribution funding. George Square is the central square in the Scottish city of Glasgow. ^[6]

See also

• Culture in Glasgow
• Scottish Tramway and Transport Society
• Glasgow Corporation Tramways - history of trams in Glasgow

References

External links

• Riverside Museum Appeal
• Riverside Museum Project

Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums (edit) Art Galleries: Gallery of Modern Art | Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery | Burrell Collection | McLellan Galleries | Pollok House Museums: Glasgow Museum of Transport | Glasgow Science Centre | St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art | People's Palace | Provand's Lordship | Scotland Street School Museum | Scottish Football Museum | The Lighthouse Planned: Riverside Museum

Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA is the main gallery of Contemporary art in Glasgow, Scotland. The University of Glasgow 's Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery is the oldest public museum in Scotland. The Burrell Collection is an art collection in the city of Glasgow, in Scotland. The McLellan Galleries are an exhibition space in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Pollok House is the ancestral home of the Maxwell family located in Pollok Country Park, Glasgow, Scotland. The Glasgow Museum of Transport Technology is located in the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow Science Centre is a visitor attraction located on the south bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art is a museum of Religion in Glasgow, Scotland. This article is about the building in Glasgow Alexandra Palace in London is also known as The People's Palace (which was its original name The Provand's Lordship located in Glasgow, Scotland, today stands as a museum located at the top of Castle Street in the shadow of the Glasgow Cathedral Scotland Street School Museum is a museum of school education in Glasgow, Scotland, in the district of Kingston The Scottish Football Museum is the Scottish Football Association 's National Museum of football, located in Hampden Park in Glasgow The Lighthouse in Glasgow, is Scotland 's Centre for Architecture Design and the City

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