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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Our Dynamic Earth Edinburgh Review
This strange tent-like structure next door to the parliament in Edinburgh houses a novel tourist attraction in the city. Our Dynamic Earth is a journey through some of the history of the Earth. It is well geared towards kids and the exhibits are interactive and fun. The meat of the attraction feels like it is all below ground. The start takes you down a lift (time machine) taking you back in time to the start of the universe. You are then led sequentially through different rooms, all with some kind of interactivity and multimedia aspect. It's great fun for kids and feels like a real adventure. Pretty good for adults too. The tour finishes in an interactive dome shaped cinema where you lie back and take part in a "future of the earth" debate whilst being spun around beneath the screen. The whole thing takes between 1 and 2 hours to go round.
Good Points: Excellent, informative exhibition. Well priced and well stocked cafe.
Bad points: Once in the exhibits, toilets and escape routes aren't readily available, and given that you are probably going to be there with kids, these things are necessary. Make sure to go before you start. Also, once you finish the tour you are dumped straight into the gift shop. That's a little too commercial for me. I'd prefer to have the choice whether I take my kids into a shop.
Overall, well worth the entrance fee.
Good Points: Excellent, informative exhibition. Well priced and well stocked cafe.
Bad points: Once in the exhibits, toilets and escape routes aren't readily available, and given that you are probably going to be there with kids, these things are necessary. Make sure to go before you start. Also, once you finish the tour you are dumped straight into the gift shop. That's a little too commercial for me. I'd prefer to have the choice whether I take my kids into a shop.
Overall, well worth the entrance fee.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Shetland Visitor Attractions
The Shetland Times today has an article on how visitor numbers to Shetland increased by 3% last year. The main attractions cover a wide variety of interests, including bird reserves, archaeological sites, galleries and visitor centres. Great news for this northern archipelago.
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Thursday, May 03, 2007
Scotland's Top Tourist Attractions
Following on from the previous post, the Scotsman has a breakdown of visitor numbers in Scotland's top tourist attractions. The report states visitor numbers are up overall by around 6% which is greatly encouraging despite the poor exchange rate visitors from the US are getting at the moment. Nice to see the Falkirk Wheel doubling it's visitors. Visitors have nothing but praise for the attraction.
Scotland's Busiest Tourist Attraction
The refurbished Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow has overtaken Edinburgh Castle to become Scotland's busiest tourist attraction over the last year. I've no doubt at all that the majority of these visitors will be local people checking out their new gallery after it had been closed for so long. It will be interesting to see next year if Kelvingrove retains it's newfound flurry of visitors or if the Castle will reclaim it's throne.
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