Glasgow

Little Birds Market
This fantastic indoor market, which takes place inside the grand Sloans ballroom and restaurant space off Buchanan Street, sells vintage craft and design, including jewellery, clothes, accessories, house goods, cakes and stationery. Tasty treats are also available from the new Mrs Sloans Cake Salon, where you can tuck into a full afternoon tea or a glass of Prosecco. Visit the market on 8 April and 13 May.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre
Book a free tour of the huge centre, where Glasgow’s museum collections are stored when they’re not on display. Treasures range from animals to armour and fine art to fossils. The venue also stages Family Friendly Sundays, on the last Sunday of each month, when drop-in activities and tours are on offer.

Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre
In this complex devoted to the art of puppeteering, there’s a 100-seat studio theatre that stages Saturday shows by national and international companies, an exhibition of masks and marionettes from around the world, and workshop areas where you can learn how to make shadow puppets or large-scale articulated models, and then how to bring them to life.

Queen’s Park
On a clear day you can see the Campsie Fells and Ben Lomond from this 148-acre park, which has display glasshouses, a Zen garden, ponds with tropical fish, exotic birds and a reptile house. There are also extensive rose gardens dedicated to Scottish poets, and an oak tree planted by Belgian refugees after World War I. A skateboard park, tennis courts and play areas mean there is lots to keep all the family occupied.

Riverside Museum
The largest object in the spectacular new building, designed by Zaha Hadid, is a South African locomotive–just one of the museum’s 3,000 objects relating to transport and travel. You can climb on a variety of vintage vehicles, visit a recreated Kelvin Street with shops from the 1930s, and venture aboard the Tall Ship, Glenlee, moored alongside the museum.