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The People’s Palace and Winter Gardens

The People’s Palace and Winter Gardens is a museum and glasshouse that is situated to the East End of Glasgow in Glasgow Green and was opened in 1898. Opened for the unhealthy and overcrowded parts of Glasgow to provide a cultural centre for the local people, the area was originally used for reading and recreation rooms with a museum and gallery on the upper floors.

Playing host to over 280,000 visitors per year, the Palace has been used as a museum of social history for the city of Glasgow since the 1940’s, telling the story of the people and the city of Glasgow from 1750 to the present day. The various collections show the Glaswegians at home as well as working and doing leisure activities, with current displays looking at life in a one roomed home ‘single end’ to nights out and trips down the firth of Clyde.

Visit the website of the People’s Palace and the Winter Gardens.

Glasgow Science Centre

Voted one of Britain’s Most Popular Places to visit and Europe’s Best Science Centre, the Glasgow Science Centre was opened in 2001 and is located on the south bank of the River Clyde. It is compromised of three buildings, which are the Glasgow Tower, the Science Mall and the first IMAX Cinema that was built in Scotland.

Whilst the Science Mall’s design resembles the canted hall of a ship, it houses three floors of learning exhibits. These are themed around concepts of ‘explore and discover’, ‘science in action’ and ‘science and you’ and are designed to encourage interaction and on-going learning. It also holds the Glasgow Science Centre Planetarium, which projects images of the night sky through a projector.

Visit the website of the Glasgow Science Centre.

Glasgow Museum of Transport

The Glasgow Museum of Transport was established in 1964 and it was relocated to Glasgow Harbour, opening as the Riverside Museum in 2011. The winner of the 2013 European Museum of the Year Award, the Riverside Museum is expected to attract up to 1 million visitors per year.

Housing the worlds oldest surviving pedal cycle and the worlds leading collection of Scottish built cars and tricks, the museum also recaptures the atmosphere of 1930’s Glasgow with a reconstructed ‘Kelvin Street’, complete with a pre-1977 full size Glasgow Subway station and Regal Cinema replica. In recent years, the city has also acquired a number of steam locomotives and the L.S. Lowry painting ‘Cranes and Ships, Glasgow Docks’, both of which are now on display in the Riverside Museum.

Visit the Glasgow Museum of Transport website. 

Glasgow plays host to the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships

The World Gymnastics Championships first took place in Antwerp in 1903. Fast forward a century (give or a take a few years) to Glasgow, where the 46th World Gymnastics Championship is due to take place later this month. Events take place over 10 days, which will also see many famous faces from the world of gymnastics not to mention the bright, young, up and coming talent.

All competitors will be pushing themselves to the limit as this Championship is a qualification event for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Want to witness it for yourself?

The event takes place 23rd October – 1st November. Tickets are still available here, and a competition schedule is also available here.

Dreamhouse Apartments are selling like hot-cakes during this period, and anyone wishing to stay at one of our fabulous Glasgow locations need only look on our website. Hurry! Availability is very limited as this is a popular event.