"Guy King" wrote in message
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from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

er - what's the Secret Hills Centre?

An idea with plenty of potential - there's an area of hills south of
Shrewsbury called the Long Mynd. It's a very strange place, more like
Scotland than Shropshire. Open moorland with lots of hidden valleys and
the like. Used to have substantial mineral deposits, too, being
volcanic. The idea of having a place that explains to anyone who's
interested why it's like that and all about the ecology etc. is a good
one, but utterly and irredeemably[1] let down by the presentation which
is aimed at a the junior school level.

There's nothing wrong with pitching exhibits low like that provided that
more in-depth information is readily to hand for those who might be
interested. Perhaps on pull-out drawers or flip-up things, or maybe even
(stand by for a really old idea) on a bit of paper. But when the only
information available at all is superficial, and asking the curators
gets either a "don't know" or in one case a response that was utterly
wrong then it's failed completely.

I was similarly seething when I left the painfully expensive Exploratory
in Birmingham.

Ah yes, that replaced the lovely Museum of Science and Technology, I
believe, which had some great exhibits but which was a bit tatty and not at
all flash. A sad loss


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