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Newcastle’s Life Science Centre says its hosting of the BBC’s stratospherically popular travelling Doctor Who display has been the key to record annual visitor numbers.
Built as one of the government’s Millennium Commissions a decade ago, the Tyneside innovation headquarters celebrated ten years in the business with a total count of 125,000 punters as the exhibition closed last Sunday (October 31 2010).
“Doctor Who was often the spark which lit the science flame for many people,” says Chief Executive Linda Conlon, having started planning the show two years ago.
“That’s how they got interested in science, even if much of the viewing was from behind the couch in living rooms up and down the land.
“At least three generations can relate to the Doctor Who series and characters, and for many it opened a portal into the world of outer space and science generally. It's been a valuable educational training tool as well as a hugely popular cultural vehicle with cross-generational appeal.”
Day trippers from as far afield as Yorkshire, Cumbria and Scotland were enticed by the Daleks in a repeat of the success the colourful display enjoyed at venues such as Glasgow’s Kelvingrove.
Organisers are now planning a suitably promising follow-up in the form of an invention odyssey hosted by animated heroes Wallace and Gromit, which will open in May 2011.
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