Visitor attractions

At the Vindolanda Trust’s Roman Army Museum on Hadrian’s Wall, visitors are confronted by a bristling Roman centurion, ready to pressgang them into his legion. He’s in-your-face but entirely illusory, a Pepper’s ghost display conjured up by projection technology. A few days’ march to the south, patrons of Ordsall Hall,…

There was a time when museums relied solely on artefacts in display cases and descriptions on little cards alongside. Today even the most modest museum will employ some kind of audio visual show, combining video, sound and lighting. Similarly fairground rides have evolved from rickety wooden roller coasters into a…