National Railway Museum

Mulhouse puts the nrm to shame! Perhaps it's time for York to go back to a 4 turntable roundhouse- 4 eras, many stories and guides. There is a 60' turntable up for grabs ex Hull.....

 

Do tell us how the NRM is put to shame by Mulhouse, You cvant make a sweeping statement like that wiotjhuot backing it up wtih an arguement asd to why. And ther removal of a turntable isn't a valid one in my view.

 

Mulhouse explains the history in a clear linear way with detail and an excellent range , unlike the ever changing random collection with no connection from one exhibit to the next with some of the best examples often elsewhere and an over representation of royal carriages that were a very small element of the scene.

 

Agreed, most of the interactive type of exhibits I have seen seem to be fairly poorly executed, actually often detracting from interacting with the surroundings or the display itself.

Wortley top Forge near us do a fantastic job of setting up interactions with their exhibits- sometimes allowing visitors to operate historic machinery, or with scale models or representation of the equipment working- they have a forge which has been very cleverly painted and lit inside for example, but it's in the original forge building, in its original location and hasn't been over sanitised.

Our kids love it (3 and 5), seeing what all the different machines do, and did bit it's also reliant on having a handful of fantastic guides who bring the place alive with their explanations and stories about the forge and equipment that is there.

Similarly, our 5 year old girl will happily spend a great deal of time helping the volunteers at the model engineers preparing locomotives, and helping them steam them ready for the day.

She will then sit on and guard (obviously supervised by an adult guard).

Just having "interactive" exhibits out of context isn't enough.

Chris