Obscure and niche tourist attractions

[vernon]

I miss the York Museum of Automata which closed in 1996. Here's what I'm missing...

 

[stephec]

If you like cuckoo clocks..... http://www.cuckoolanduk.net/

 

[vernon]

There's a surviving museum of automata at Covent Garden - I've not been there in ten years.

http://www.cabaret.co.uk/about/history/

 

[vernon]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Welcome Collection near Euston Station.

Wellcome Collection is the free visitor destination for the incurably curious. Located at 183 Euston Road, London, it explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future. The venue offers visitors contemporary and historic exhibitions and collections, lively public events, the world-renowned Wellcome Library, a café, a shop, a restaurant and conference facilities as well as publications, tours, a book prize, international and digital projects. Wellcome Collection is part of the Wellcome Trust.

I'm fitting it in with a pie munching session on Saturday.

 

[snorri]

'Miniatur wunderland' in Hamburg is worth a visit to see the largest model railway layout in the world, which includes aeroplanes and ships coming and going.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkmg3Y64_s

 

[TVC]

'Miniatur wunderland' in Hamburg is worth a visit to see the largest model railway layout in the world, which includes aeroplanes and ships coming and going.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkmg3Y64_s

Not sure how obscure that is, it appears on many peoples bucket lists, including mine

 

[TVC]

Coventry Tranport Museum. It up there with the best, and its free.

They have Thrust SSC, the only supersonic car in the world, but they seem determined not to let you see it properly.

 

[vernon]

They have Thrust SSC, the only supersonic car in the world, but they seem determined not to let you see it properly.

Do they blindfold you before being led to it?

 

[TVC]

Do they blindfold you before being led to it?

They keep it in a tent, you have to go in a second rate simulator first, then you are pushed out into the room they keep it in, it is in almost darkness then they start a short light show and feed in sound effects before the lights go down. Very frustrating, I went to Coventry just to see it, to have a proper look at it. Not a happy bunny.

 

[Freds Dad]

All you need to know about hats

http://www.stockport.gov.uk/services/leisureculture/museumsandgalleries/hatworks/

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Coventry Tranport Museum. It up there with the best, and its free.

Its had a revamp recently and its better than it used to be, I wouldn't call it obscure or niche though, thats why I didn't mention it when I posted about the music museum.

 

[GM]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Welcome Collection near Euston Station.
I'm fitting it in with a pie munching session on Saturday.

I see they've got a Day long on Meditation and Mindfulness. So if @Hill Wimp goes missing for a couple of hours while you're in the pub, you'll know where to find her!

 

[stephec]

Tucked away up a side street in Llandudno is The Home Front Museum.

 

[Fnaar]

The bagpipe museum in Morpeth, Northumberland, is great, if you like bagpipes.
http://www.morpethbagpipemuseum.org.uk/

@vernon might enjoy it, I reckon.

 

[vernon]

Mrs Vernon less so, I suspect...

She wasn't enamoured with the National Piping Centre in Glasgow