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If you think the Peter Harrison Planetarium looks good from the outside, imagine the wonders of the universe you can see inside!
London’s only planetarium can be found on top of the hill next to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Shows at the planetarium take real images taken from spacecraft and massive telescopes and allow you to explore the universe without leaving your seat.
Have you seen anything amazing this week? Don’t forget to add your London photos to the Visit London Flickr group.
How about a trip to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich this weekend? The view looking back over London from the top of that hill is just as impressive! Try our Greenwich itinerary if you’re looking for inspiration.
Wherever you go in London, don’t forget to take lots of photos and add them to the Visit London Flickr pool.
This morning I headed down to a sneak preview of Greenwich’s newest visitor attraction. Discover Greenwich is a fantastic mix of museum, exhibition, education centre, tourist information centre, café, and brewery.
Its different titbits of information, entertainment, interaction and refreshments reflect the diversity of Greenwich itself perfectly.
As a destination, Greenwich is also a potentially confusing mix of Tudor palace, old hospital, art gallery, observatory, architectural treasure and naval college. What the new exhibition-and-more at Discover Greenwich does so well is bring all the different bits of this amazing heritage site together into one manageable room.
I really liked the way traditional ways of displaying attraction information were mixed with interactive objects to twist, build, play with, doodle, watch, listen to, take away, and try on! Discover Greenwich is certainly a classy opener to one of the world’s heritage sites, and a great way to introduce all the different aspects of Greenwich in one space.
Once you’ve tasted a particularly tempting piece of Greenwich’s diverse platter of historical, architectural and cultural offerings, you can head out into Maritime Greenwich and explore your selected morsel further.
Or, if you’re particularly interested in Greenwich’s gastronomical past, there’s the fantastic Old Brewery, run by the Meantime Brewing Company, promising an “astonishing range of beers”. The experimental micro-brewery is going to create historical and modern beers, including recreations of recipes drunk at the time of Henry VIII, and avant-garde beers, such as Mojito Pilsners and Juniper Pale Ales. Like the sound of those!
Discover Greenwich opens to visitors on 23 March. Check out more images from Discover Greenwich on flickr. Give us your feedback in the comments below!
