Free museums appears to be a UK thing, because all of the big museums in Scotland are free just like the ones in London.
So I’ve been to a ridiculous amount of of them over the last couple of weeks (I’m actually starting to get a bit museumed out). Still, Glasgow has a couple of museums that are worth mentioning.
The Kelvingrove museum is enormous and impressive, with a really varied collection that includes paintings…
Sculptures…
Historical artifacts…
And more.
And it’s free! I don’t know how they can afford to do that, but I’m certainly not complaining.
There was also the Riverside Museum, which has a much more single-minded focus (on transportation: mostly cars, trains, and boats), and a really interesting layout.
These look like model cars in this picture, but nope, they’re the real deal.
Plus, there’s a small recreation of a historical street, including stores you can actually walk into, that’s pretty fascinating.