Summerlee (Museum of Scottish Industrial Life)

📌 Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire
★★★★

Glasgow and its surrounding council areas have a heavily industrial past – North Lanarkshire’s was closely linked to coal and iron ore. Coatbridge was once described as the industrial heartland of Scotland, and it’s therefore a fitting location for the Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, also called Summerlee. With a huge exhibition hall, reconstructed coal mine, rows of refitted miners’ cottages, various large pieces of machinery dotted around the place and a canal running through the middle, you could easily spend several hours here. Working trams help you get around the site – a tribute to the days when you could travel all the way from Coatbridge to Paisley on various interlinking tram networks.