Riverside Museum
Award-winning transport museum on a former shipyard, with a Victorian tall ship moored alongside.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Riverside Museum in Glasgow is really about the tall ship moored outside it, a steel barque launched on the Clyde in eighteen ninety-six for Glasgow owners. It follows her through new names, new flags and decades of training Spanish naval cadets, and asks how a Clyde-built ship ended up abandoned on a quay in Seville. Best heard on the riverside path, with her masts in front of you and Zaha Hadid's building at your back.
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