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Dynamic Earth (originally known as Our Dynamic Earth) is a not-for-profit visitor attraction and science centre in Edinburgh, and is Scotland's largest interactive visitor attraction. [1] It is located in Holyrood , beside the Scottish Parliament building and at the foot of Salisbury Crags .
Dynamic Earth may refer to: Dynamic Earth (Edinburgh) , a not-for-profit visitor attraction and science centre in Edinburgh, Scotland Dynamic Earth (Ontario) , an interactive science museum in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Edinburgh is the largest tourist destination in Scotland, and the second largest in the United Kingdom after London. The cities' major tourist attractions include Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh Zoo, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Our Dynamic Earth and the Royal Mile. It has four universities including the University of Edinburgh founded in 1583.
He took up the post of Scientific Director at Our Dynamic Earth on a permanent, part-time, basis on retiring from the British Geological Survey in 2004. Monro has been a part-time tutor in Earth Sciences at the Open University from 1982 till 2009 and, from 1990 to 2002, served on the Open University's Senate , and Council from 1994 to 2002.
In 1999, Cockburn helped establish the education service at Our Dynamic Earth, a science centre and visitor attraction in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2002, she won BBC Talent's Science on Screen competition and co-presented the Tomorrow's World Award Show on BBC One .
The pool was commissioned by the Council under a plan by the then Lord Provost, Sir Herbert Archbold Brechin in 1966 as part of a wider project to bring the Commonwealth Games to Edinburgh. This, with the help of other committee members such as Sir John Inch , came to fruition in October 1969.
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Camera Obscura & World of Illusions is a tourist attraction located in Outlook Tower on the Castlehill section of the Royal Mile close to Edinburgh Castle. The original attraction was founded by entrepreneur Maria Theresa Short in 1835 and was exhibited on Calton Hill.