Limited scope and amateur tour delivery style reduce chance for enjoyment
Science And Innovation Park的点评
点评:We visited on Friday 14th March 2025 4 years after discovering the only Lockheed Constellation in the UK was N7777G at Wroughton Science Museum Long Term Storage facility and thus 4 years from my first visit enquiry, 2 years from when the site was due to open, 6 months from when it opened and tickets sold out and 6 months since I secured these tour tickets which then entailed driving down the night before, an overnight stay in Swindon, we arrived for our schedule 12:45 tour of the new Hawking Building. We were first told that the airframes were all out of bounds for the tour. Upon review post-visit, this omission was detailed in the information supplied with the ticket. Regardless of the reasoning discussing this omission from the tour, we were not the only ones who had only visited principally to see the Lockheed Constellation (so the message re the planes was missed by them too) even if it was limited to seeing the plane through a hanger window or opening the hanger doors to view it would have been preferable to denying access altogether. As it was when we started the tour the tour guide who worked for the Science Museum explained she was the guide and the others were volunteers. She asked that we not photograph or video her or the said volunteers and then proceeded to walk right in front of the camera and complained about being videoed, which was ironic given she and the others are pictured on the website. Beyond this stupid behaviour, her selection of 7 or 8 items to give a history of was quite limited as it omitted a summary of the other items in each row. Lastly, we were given a deep dive into Stephen Hawkins families attempts to avoid inheritance tax by dumping the contents of his office on the science museum including his microwave........great.
翻译:我们于 2025 年 3 月 14 日星期五参观了这里,四年前,我才发现英国唯一的一架洛克希德星座型飞机是存放在沃顿科学博物馆长期存储设施中的 N7777G,因此距离我第一次询问参观已经过去了 4 年,距离该地点原定开放已经过去了 2 年,距离它开放和门票售罄已经过去了 6 个月,距离我获得这些参观门票已经过去了 6 个月,我们前一天晚上开车前往,在斯温顿过夜,然后按照计划于 12:45 到达新霍金大楼参观。我们首先被告知,机身都是参观范围之外的。参观后检查发现,这一遗漏在门票随附的信息中详细说明了。不管讨论这次游览中省略这一部分的理由是什么,我们并不是唯一主要参观洛克希德星座号的人(所以他们也错过了有关飞机的信息),即使仅限于通过机库窗户观看飞机或打开机库门观看,也比完全拒绝进入要好。当我们开始游览时,为科学博物馆工作的导游解释说她是导游,其他人是志愿者。她要求我们不要拍摄或录像她或上述志愿者,然后走到镜头前,抱怨被录像,这很讽刺,因为她和其他人的照片都在网站上。除了这种愚蠢的行为之外,她选择的 7 或 8 件物品来介绍历史非常有限,因为它省略了每行中其他物品的摘要。最后,我们深入了解了斯蒂芬霍金斯家族试图通过将办公室里的物品(包括他的微波炉)倾倒在科学博物馆来逃避遗产税......太棒了。