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Call me sad if you like, but am I the only one who looked up and down the table to find where my blog stats fitted in ?

I suspect many a blog could advertise itself as
"More popular than the National Wool Museum"

A museum of wool?! Blimey, we Kiwis are accused of an unnatural fascination with sheep, but to think that fully 50 people a day would visit this museum! It just goes to show: we LOVE history, we are made of it...

From Powerhouse to Powerhouse we shall kneel at the big space (with art).

Lets not forget that visiting patterns are somewhat different for blogs and these attractions.

I suspect most of my blog visitors come more than once (yet are counted each time) whilst the apparantly similar numbers of visitors
to Culloden in the main only go once (I've been once and have no need to visit a second time, though obviously folk might say the same of my blog).

Also I suspect that a good proportion of my 240 daily visits are robots...probably not the case for Culloden.

Fascinating stats though. Thanks.

The NatHist has always had a lot more visitors than the Science Museum. I used to work at the ScM in the 70's and we were very envious of our more popular neighbour. But, as my boss pointed out: "They've got f***ing dinosaurs! What can we do against that?"

How about the Cumberland Pencil Museum?

It's a museum about pencils. In Keswick.

http://www.pencils.co.uk/

The pencil museum is great! You can see the world's largest pencil (smaller than you'd think)! And an educational film filled with pencil-related jokes like "Now let's get to the point!"!

I'd love to know how many visitors they get.

It's astonishing that the two London cathedrals are so expensive to visit - doesn't seem right somehow. And to think I baulked at the prospect of spending a fiver to go round York Minster.

Don't forget the Forge Mill Needle Museum in Redditch.

Wasn't Borough Market voted most popular attraction with "real" Londoners last year?

I wonder what the figures for the Barometer World exhibition are?

http://www.barometerworld.co.uk/....uk/
Museum.html


Kew Gardens £12?

Wow!

And for years it was 1d (that's an old penny for all you metric currency people).

Of course, the Natural History Museum is still very much a scientific museum.

What about the London Monument? Built to remember the Fire of London, 311 steps up, and a fantastic view. Cheap too, and you get a certificate.

I remember the pencil museum. The first caption in the museum read "There are two forms of carbon ..." I thought if they can't even get their first sentence factually correct what is the point in reading anything else they have to say.

http://www.derbycity.com/derby2/...by2/
indust.html


Worth visting the Industrial Museum in Derby if you're passing. What can I say my dad liked planes and trains....

London Zoo and the Houses of Parliament appear to be more or less interchangeable.

My parents live in Carmarthenshire, but they've yet to mention the National Wool Museum. I'm going to go next time I visit them. Maybe.

You can visit the Houses of Parliament whenever you like and they're in session, and it's free. But the guided tours only run in summer. (Well worth doing though, it's bloody interesting)

This one annoys me every year as Blackpool pleasure beach is always the top "free" attraction. Free admission maybe but a fairly dull attraction if you don't fork out significant chunks of cash.

I'll likely never visit the pencil museum (and it wasn't PofP's "2 forms of carbon" thing, putting me off). You see, I have learnt all I need to know about sparpening pencils and the history of pencils and the discovery of graphite by visiting their website. A bit like those reviews of movies that tell you what the plot is. "Go and see CRYING GAME: it's good and by the way, she's a he".

The National Wool Museum has one problem, its in the middle of nowhere, so passing trade is not really going to be an option. I remember visiting it once on a school trip - it was only 30 minutes in the bus, so was a very easy option.

It's in a very pretty part of Wales though, it where my grandmother was born.

Actually, from my new desk in the office I can see HMS Belfast. There's a lot of passing traffic, but not that many people seem to go in.











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