BILINGUAL residents of Glasgow are to have access to the city's museums with a new treasure trail in six different languages.

The multi-venue trail has been created in partnership with multilingual families and the city’s English as an Additional Language team.

It features Top Tips from families who visited for the first-time and aims to engage parents and carers in their children’s learning, while encouraging families to use their home language.

Away for the Day with Glasgow Museums is an online booklet is available in the city's six most prominent additional languages, Urdu, Punjabi, Polish, Arabic, Mandarin and Romanian.

Ghazanfar and Sameena Ali and their daughter Zara Ali, nine, speak Urdu and English.

The family was the first to try out the new resource at the Riverside Museum.

Mr Ali said: “Having the Away for the Day booklet translated into Urdu and the other community languages is a wonderful way for bilingual families like mine to enjoy free family fun in all the different museums across the city, while sharing my home language with my children.

"It’s important to me to be able to share in their learning and to pass on a second language, the language I grew up with.”

The booklet follows lots of different families around Glasgow’s nine free to enter museums.

As they go, they suggest fun things to see and do in each museum.

Youngsters are encouraged to discover more about the city’s Coat of Arms at Kelvin Hall, or dance about in front of the magic mirror from Glasgow’s old fairgrounds, visit the peephole in GoMA inspired by the inside of a whale and go on an animal safari at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

Parents can look a little silly helping little ones copy the funny expressions on the heads in St Nicholas Garden outside Provand’s Lordship.

Meanwhile, at Riverside Museum, children can search out a Mini and a Morris Minor or show off their firefighting skills with the interactive fire engine game.

Chairman of Glasgow Life, Councillor David McDonald, said: “Visitors continue to flock to all nine Glasgow Museums, with almost four million attendances recorded over the last year alone.

"A huge number of these are by bilingual families for whom English is a second language.

"When you look at the incredible objects on display it is easy to see how with a little imagination and explanation the city’s museums can open up a whole new world to even the youngest of visitors.

"It is wonderful this new resource allows families to access this in their first language and engage further in their child’s learning."

Away for the Day with Glasgow Museums can be downloaded at www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/away-for-the-day or picked up at any of Glasgow Museums.

For more information on the museum opening times, transport options, visit www.glasgowmuseums.com