Museums for the summer holidays

The Riverside Museum: Scotland's museum of transport and travel in Glasgow.
The building alone is worth a train ride to Glasgow. Designed by Zaha Hadid it was described by Jonathan Glancey as 'a quietly charismatic affair'. Sited amongst Glasgow's Clyde-side dockyards Glancey found it to be a "home to trams, cars, locomotives, motorbikes, a tube train, a glider, ships, skateboards, prams, shoes and, well, pretty much anything that ever helped Glaswegians to move about."
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/For the Guardian

A display of cars at the Riverside Museum
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/For the Guardian

Children dress up as Romans at the Tullie House Museum in Cumbria
Photograph: Redman Design

A boy plays with an interactive at the Tullie House Museum Photograph: Tullie House Museum

The Museum of Liverpool was opened this July. Rowan Moore isn't a fan - he described the building as a "godawful mess" and the exhibits as having a "boosterish" tone, but why not pop along and judge for yourself? Photograph: Mills Media Limited/The Museum of Liverpool

Models of cartoon characters, originally at the Liverpool Garden Festival, are on display at The Museum of Liverpool Photograph: Mark McNulty

Children get an idea of what it would have been like to be evacuated out of the city at the Cardiff Story museum Photograph: The Cardiff Story

A moving model of a house through four different time periods at the Cardiff Story museum
Photograph: Redman Design

The exterior of the Turner Contemporary, Margate at night. This new art gallery on the sea front opened in April this year to much acclaim. Photograph: Chris Laurens/Alamy

An installation view of Ellen Harvey's Arcadia at Turner Contemporary in Margate. Photograph: David Grandorge/Courtesy the artist and Galerie Gebruder Lehmann, Locks Gallery and Meessen de Clercq