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From 3 October the Battle of Britain and Sunderland Halls will be closed.
Georgeconna wrote:I did not recognise the area when I walked up from the Tube station, the place had totally changed to awful looking apartments.
Georgeconna wrote:I was Lucky So, Popped in there last Saturday with seemingly the rest of the Population of London. I remember going there in 1990 and there was no one it it!! Place was pretty busy with lot and lots of Little ones running about bless em.
I liked what they did with the WWI exhibits but the main hall was still poorly lit and some exhibits not even lit up.
I did not recognise the area when I walked up from the Tube station, The place had totally changed to awful looking apartments.
Cheers
George.
iainpeden wrote:I know this is going off topic but there seems to be a move amongst some museums to dumb down the experience.
I visited the Science Museum yesterday for the first time in about 5 years. Having first visited in the early 1960s I knew the Deltic loco and Castle Class (?) loco had long gone but still found the lower hall full of interesting bits and pieces. The aircraft on the top floor still there and basically unchanged for the last 50 years - and probably the purest example of "sky" on the Spitfire and Hurricane for the modellers amongst us.
Then I went downstairs to see the wonderful collection of ship models - gone in 2012 apparently and replaced by an information gallery with mobile phones and computers.
In between - lots of open space, lots of colouring places for young children and screens for the teenagers to congregate around but far too many displays of small items with complex descriptions. I really think that the aim - as stated on one of the posters I saw - to enthuse children so they in turn bring theirs has, at least in the Science Museum, and potentially at Hendon, by using the awe factor is being lost.
Dan O'Hagan wrote:I agree. Cosford in particular suffers from this, "Kid Zones" (more accurately "Idiot Spaces") everywhere with interactive nonsense, moronic "flight simulators" and buttons to press. The Research and Development Hangar in particular is terrible for this.
PeterR wrote:Dan O'Hagan wrote:I agree. Cosford in particular suffers from this, "Kid Zones" (more accurately "Idiot Spaces") everywhere with interactive nonsense, moronic "flight simulators" and buttons to press. The Research and Development Hangar in particular is terrible for this.
I'm struggling to think of anywhere else inside the RAF Museum Cosford which has a so-called "idiot space" apart from the R&D Hangar?
Black Projects wrote:As far as can tell the Sunderland has to stay at Hendon as it is to Big to get on the Motorway to Cosford.
Black Projects wrote:You are having a laugh are you not ?
Black Projects wrote:You are having a Laugh are you not ?
Canal Route ?!?
There are no Canals any where near Cosford![]()
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