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Interactive displays help bring the story of Stonehenge to life for visitors Greener Fields
The new construction at Airman’s Corner comprises the visitor building designed by Denton Corker Marshall, an ancillary building, coach and car parks, and shut- tle embarkation point. The galleries, café, shop and toilets are housed in a pair of single-storey ‘pods’ beneath an undulating can- opy roof that refl ects the rolling hills of Salisbury Plain. Local materials have been used wherever possible. The building is linked to the Stones by
a low-key visitor shuttle system running along the existing road surface of the A344 (now closed to public traffi c). By early May, a cluster of Neolithic houses will open as an external exhibition, recreated using rare evidence of domes-
Visitors can experience a virtual sunrise in the new facility
Precious objects linked to Stonehenge are on show for the fi rst time
ISSUE 2 2014 © cybertrek 2014
tic buildings from prehistoric England recently unearthed near Stonehenge. During the fi rst half of 2014, the exist- ing car park, visitor buildings, road and fencing close to the monument will be demolished and grassed over. A 360-degree virtual, immersive experi- ence will let visitors ‘stand in the stones’ before they enter a gallery presenting facts and theories surrounding the monu- ment through various displays and nearly 300 prehistoric artefacts. Archaeological fi nds on display are on loan from the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, the Wiltshire Museum, and the Duckworth Collection, University of Cambridge. All were found inside the
World Heritage Site and many are on public display for the fi rst time. One of the highlights is a forensic reconstruction of an early Neolithic man, based on a 5,500-year-old skeleton from a burial site near Stonehenge. Also on display will be two rare 14th century manuscripts, Roman coins and jewellery, and early surveying equipment. ‘Set in Stone? How our ancestors
saw Stonehenge’, is the fi rst temporary exhibition, charting centuries of debate – from 12th-century legends to radiocar- bon dating in the 1950s. ●
This feature fi rst appeared in Attractions Management, Q1 2014
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