less than expected (Our Dynamic Earth (Edinburgh))

Member Name: John paxton

Product:	Our Dynamic Earth (Edinburgh)
Date:	19/07/09 (26 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Well run , just not exciting

Disadvantages: short, one way trip only

I'm visiting from the states and the most exciting part our child had while visiting this exhibition was the train ride there when a train was passing in the opposite direction.

Not been to a single science exhibit of this stature in the UK or the US that fails to capture the imagination as this one does. Not only are their typos on their displays,they can't even locate Yellowstone park correctly on their earthquake map. It's not just the small things the mismatching of the video screens, particularly in the polar section, is really off-putting and maybe they want you to sit in case you get motion sickness and fall over?

It's dull, I don't mean the topic but the whole experience, which they is in fairly low light, with loads of text to read to the young ones. Loads of text without a lot of contrast.E.G, The ocean section has sheets that undulate the text back and forward and unless you are right at the bar it's pretty hard to pick up.

Food is basic and well it's edible so let's leave it at that .Here we have yet another ecologically aware science exhibit that sells utter crap in the gift shop for the most part. It would be nice if they could practice the kind of restraint the walls urge the visitors to do.

It's not all bad the 360 theater is pretty impressive but a really basic movie was showing on the day we went. I.E., what's an astronomer? The movie overstates Galileo a bit and left Copernicus out entirely,that's nice but it's indicative of the cursory geology, astronomy, biology et all within the exhibit that tries to fit too much into a small space and everything suffers from it.

Summary: Not very dynamic and a very down to earth presentation.