Afternoon in Glasgow

Museums -

Museum of Modern Art - City Centre
Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery - West End (Kelvinhall on subway)
Hunterian Museum (museum, art gallery, Mackintosh House, zoology museum & anatomy museum) - Glasgow Uni, West End (Hillhead, walkable from Kelvingrove)
House for an Art Lover - Bellahouston Park

Etc etc.

https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums#venues
https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/

Loads, more than you'll manage.

Either go to the west end and do a wander around the uni (the main building is lovely in its own right and they do tours up the spitlre if you like that sort of thing) or go out to the Burrell in the south side and take your time.

Thanks @squirrelking

Yep think squirrelking has got it quite spot on.

I would normally add a trip up the lighthouse watertower for a different view but that's shut. If the weather is lovely and you like something a bit different. The necropolis is great.

The Burrell is freshly re-opened after a fairly major refurb and probably the easiest place to drop into as a single destination. You could easily fill an afternoon there.

at the other end of the spectrum maybe is a collection of small arts organisations in trongate 103 - print, photography and some quirky stuff like Sharmanka. A few doors down there’s the panopticon too.

Go play an escape room at Locked In Glasgow.

(Come to that, go do Wirral Escape Rooms)

If you just have an afternoon my choice would be Riverside museum and Kelvingrove museum followed by an Indian in the west end. Can recommend Mother Indians cafe or Murphy’s Pakora bar.

Thanks everyone, appreciate it. Havent been to Glasgow for about 4 years and that was a flying visit. Cant wait to spend a very long weekend there. I will try and squeeze some of those suggestions in as well as a curry 🙂

Cheers @cougar 🙂

I don't feel like I can ever recommend the Riverside museum. I suppose there's still the tall ship but the rest is a sad shadow of its old self. Who ever thought sticking a car or motorbike on a 3 storey display was a good idea? And revolving displays of model ships and bikes you can't get a good look at.

Mother India is a good shout, Chilli's on Woodlands Road is another.

The Burrell and surrounding park are excellent.

Agreed on the Riverside. Not a patch on the old Transport Museum for getting up close to exhibits.  The  award winning architectural design seems intended to be seen from the river while most visitors see it from the carpark.

Train to Stirling and do the castle 😉

Or do what Squirrelking says 🙂

Cheers @cougar 🙂

If you do, tell 'em Alan sent you.

Amy at the Wirral is a friend of mine, her room is excellent and it's on your doorstep.

I was at Locked In Glasgow a couple of weeks back, I can't say enough good things about them and I appear to have entered into folklore after playing a now-retired game solo on a previous visit.

I don’t feel like I can ever recommend the Riverside museum. I suppose there’s still the tall ship but the rest is a sad shadow of its old self. Who ever thought sticking a car or motorbike on a 3 storey display was a good idea? And revolving displays of model ships and bikes you can’t get a good look at.</b

100% I will go further and just outright say it's shit. A triumph it architects completely ignoring the brief

 

The Mary Quant exhibition is on at Kelvingrove at the moment if that's of interest.

If you do the Barrel collection, and you should, do Pollok House as it's in the park too, then walk over to Bellahouston Park and visit House for an Art Lover.

Dead easy to do. Train from Central to Pollokshaws West* which is right at Pollok Park, do the Burrell and Pollok House, nice 15-20 min walk to House for an Art Lover then train from Dumbreck back to Central

*Important train note as this always catches people out. We have

Pollokshaws East

Pollokshaws West

Pollokshields East

Pollokshields West

All easily confused so double check!

https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/pollok-house

https://www.houseforanartlover.co.uk/

I'd also recommend the city chambers in George Square

Monorail. Have a coffee and browse some records. The Tenement House, how we used to live. Nice n Sleazy, how I used to live.

Nice n Sleazy, how I used to live.

White russian please

 

@joshvegas I might have asked you this before but what years were you in Glasgow?

Important train note as this always catches people out. We have

Pollokshaws East

Pollokshaws West

Pollokshields East

Pollokshields West

All easily confused so double check

I have lived in Glasgow my whole life and still don't know which one i should be going to

Yes annoyingly they're all in the same general direction. I used to stay next to Pollokshaws West and the amount of mates that would get the train to see me but go to Pollokshaws East and phone me very confused

I have lived in Glasgow my whole life and still don’t know which one i should be going to

it’s simple. Just don’t stray south of the river.  There be dragons…

I’ll add Botanic Gardens and the plethora of nice eateries around Byres road to the list of recommendations

Byres Road, Hunterian, Kelvingrove.

I’ve started driving to Kelvinbridge Subway station and parking there.  All day ticket on the subway plus parking is really cheap and you are close to lots of places.  Sonny and  Vitos is a great wee cafe just round the corner too.  Mixed Up records isn’t far, great bookshop next door too.

South side you can park at the mosque and head over the bridge to the Trongate and onto Argyle Street.  Great kebabs on the way and the Scotia Bar is worth a visit.

Not quite the op’s brief, but depending on your start/ finish point, PS Waverley makes a nice, relaxing ‘asmr’ excursion.

It’s in Englandshire at the mo, but pops back, peripatetically to plow the more attractive parts of the Clyde estuary.