Thursford Collection Founders Day 2010

[weidner]

Originally Posted by Mine Explorer

Oh, you mean like <<this>>
...excepting for a moment the fact that it's at Universal Studios, not Disney - but it's the same idea!


Of course I still mourn the passing of the old Birmingham Science & Industry Museum .
If I had a spare hour for lunch whilst at Uni I'd pop over there to make use of the cafe and stand and watch the stationary engines ticking over on a Wednesday.

From what I understand the "Think Tank" (so called) replacement turned all 'hands on' , 'touchy feely' , 'interpretted for the kiddies', and lost half the displays in the process. I couldn't (and still can't) bring myself to go and visit - better to keep happy memories of the old museum, now departed .

They did the same in Newcastle , Lord knows where the exhibits have gone .

[Malc-Y]

Originally Posted by weidner

They did the same in Newcastle , Lord knows where the exhibits have gone .

I had the same thoughts a couple of weeks ago when during a brief (three days) visit to Newcastle we went to the new 'Discovery' Museum (didn't see any Discoverys in there though! ). Apart from the 'Turbinia' there was nothing that I could remember from the old 'Exhibition Park' museum. Having said that there are some interesting exhibits in there, we spent a pleasant morning there before finding a real ale pub for a spot of lunch. Outside the entrance to the museum I was quite surprised to see a Burrell showman's engine in steam, it was 'Excelsior' No 3878, last time I saw it, it was named 'Island Chief'.
By the way, Tomo was on the footplate at the time.

Malc.