Advantages: Innovateive interactive museum. Great for Kids. Disadvantages: Small car park
Wonderful, up to date, museum exploring the unique Celtic and Viking past of the Isle of Man. Not your dusty old 'hands off' museum us oldies remember from our school days. This is a completely up to date interactive experience which is great fun for adults and children.
It starts with a reconstruction of a Celtic roundhouse with animatronic characters who tell you about their lives and beliefs. Then on to the Vikings and learn the perhaps surprising ... ...settling and marrying local girls rather than through their popular image of rape and pillage. There is a full size Viking longship to explore.
Many of the Celtic crosses which are still found on the Island are explained and displayed in an atmospheric presentation.
Then things move more up to date looking at the development of the harbour and city of Peel. You can see and hear the harbour as it was in Victorian times when there were so many fishing ...
HWIOM 30.07.2003
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