City residents made more 18million visits to high profile events and community facilities run by Glasgow Life in the past year.

New figures show the city's nine civic museums had a record breaking year with almost four million attendances.

Kelvingrove and Riverside Museum both had more than one million visitors through their doors.

Highlights of the past year included the World Gymnastics Championships at the Hydro and the Turner Prize at the Tramway which attracted more than 90,000 visitors.

In the last financial year, Glasgow Life recorded a record-breaking 1.4m attendances at community facilities and over 5.2m at the city's 32 community libraries and the Mitchell Library.

Free wi-fi was rolled out across libraries, community facilities, public halls and major cultural and sporting facilities. There were 6.2m attendances across city sports facilities and Glasgow Life delivered 320 adult learning programmes, helping change the lives of more than 3,700 adults.

Events such as the Merchant City Festival attracted more than 150,000 visitors and it was a record-breaking year for Celtic Connections, which attracted 124,000 music lovers,

Glasgow Life chairman Archie Graham said: “The last year has been outstanding for Glasgow. From hosting major international sporting events, to improving the lives of the people we serve, Glasgow Life has been critical to the success of our great city on a local and international stage. "The sheer scale of what we do is phenomenal – from raising the roof when Great Britain won two Davis Cup ties at the Emirates Arena, to the life-changing support we give to people to help them simply to read and write, the difference we make is simply inspirational.

“The people of Glasgow love their museums, libraries, community and sports facilities and we are responding by ensuring that they have every opportunity to get involved, see and do more – and given the fact that we have seen more than 18 million attendances in the last year, their response is incredible.

"We are continuing to invest in our community and cultural assets, continuing to work on major events that shine a welcome and positive light on the city and thanks to our dedicated staff and army of volunteers, continuing to ensure that the people of Glasgow can get so much more out of life.”

Glasgow Life also announced Glasgow University Principal Anton Muscatelli and Glasgow Airport chief executive Amanda McMillan have been appointed as independent directors on its board.