Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
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 .
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
Presented by the San Diego–Edinburgh Sister City Society More images: Wojtek (Voytek), the Soldier Bear West Princes Street Gardens: 2015: Alan Herriot: Sculptural group: Bronze on granite base — Lulla-Bye (Children's Memorial)
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Princes Street, 1825 painting by Alexander Nasmyth of Princes Street, with the construction of the Royal Institution visible, right The Royal Institution, Edinburgh (now the Royal Scottish Academy), by George Meikle Kemp, c. 1840; watercolour and pen, 31.30 x 44.90 cm; National Galleries Scotland
The portrait gallery was established in 1882, before its new building was completed. The London National Portrait Gallery was the first such separate museum in the world, however it did not move into its current purpose-built building until 1896, making the Edinburgh gallery the first in the world to be specially built as a portrait gallery. [8]