Riverside Museum has three street displays spanning the years 1895-1930, 1930-60 and 1960-1980s.
We took a look at Main Street, and talked to Rosemary Watt, Senior Curator at the Riverside Museum, about it.
She said: “Main Street is one of the three streets that we’ve created in the Riverside Museum.
“This one dates from the 1890s to the 1930s, and the reason that we’ve done this work was because of the popularity of Kelvin Street in the old Museum of Transport.
“It was so popular with the visitors, and we wanted to capture and bring some of that wonder with us in the new building.”
She added: “We looked at the kind of shops that would have been here, in Glasgow in a street like this.
“We also looked at our collections, so what did we have that we could recreate which would involve real interiors, so there’s the Le Rendezvous Café from Denistoun, which we acquired in 1985. It had been an exhibited in the People’s Palace, and we thought we could give it a really good home here, a wonderful home here.
“You’ve got the horses of course, saddlers, cobblers, cabinet makers and a pub – let’s not forget the Mitre Bar. The Mitre Bar was a real bar in Glasgow, and many people who worked on the project remember going into it.”
INSIDE THE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM: IN VIDEO
- Riverside Museum: an overview of Glasgow's new architectural wonder
- Locomotive returns to Scotland to become museum highlight
- Govan ferry returns after 45-year absence
- Motorcycle and Bike Collection defies gravity
- A new home for The Tall Ship
- Customised vehicles create eye-grabbing display
- Revisiting origins of Glasgow Subway
- Going back to 20th century Glasgow on Main Street
