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Ever since the time of the Picts Dundee has been the site of a settlement. The city, the 4th largest city to be found in the nation of Scotland, has long been associated with trade and commerce. The 3 primary industries, in the city of Dundee, were “jam, jute and journalism”. Even though dundee could be described as a post-industrial city it has an economy which is mixed and it still has a large percentage of its population employed in manufacturing industries (by comparison to the rest of Scotland), roughly 13.5 percent. In recent years tourism has started to become a pretty important element of the Dundee economy and there are a fair number of hotels and guest houses offering bed and breakfast accommodation in Dundee and in the article below I introduce you to 3 Dundee visitor attractions; Discover Point Visitor Centre, Sensation Science Centre and Verdant Works:

The Discover Point Visitor Centre

Discovery Point is a highly interesting and award-winning attraction in Dundee that introduces the events of one of the most heroic voyages of exploration ever, the story of the famous Antarctic explorer, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, and the ship he used on his first voyage, RRS Discovery. the Discovery was launched on the twenty first of March, nineteen hundred and one from Dundee’s Panmure Shipyard. Captain Scott and his crew set off for Antarctica on 6th August 1901, reaching there in January nineteen hundred and two. The RRS Discovery is the major element of the visitor centre having been fully restored outside and in. Narrow passageways and steep stairs can cause difficulty getting around for some, luckily, you will discover that there is an audio visual presentation at the dockside.

The Sensation Science Centre

If you are looking for an attraction that will provide enjoyment for the family, then Dundee’s Sensation Science Centre is the perfect place to go. Sensation Dundee is the only science centre in the United Kindom that is focused on the human body’s 5 senses. You are able to discover the miracles of sciences through the human body’s senses with the aid of in excess of eighty interactive hands-on exhibits. You will also find live science shows and demonstrations, which show how ordinary ingredients found in the home can be utilised to incredible effect. Visitors interested in surgery can have an attempt at trying keyhole surgery. Sensation brings science to life in many of highly fascinating ways.

The Verdant Works

Verdant Works was, once, a fully working jute mill. At it’s height, in the 1860′s and ’70′s, the industry in Dundee had a workforce of around fifty thousand people in more than 60 factories dispersed across the city of Dundee. These days, Verdant Works brings the jute industry to life, by using a wide range of displays including, interactive computers, film shows and original machinery. This remarkable museum once housed 3 massive steam engines running seventy looms and nearly 3,000 spindles. There was also a workforce of some five hundred workers, spinning and preparing jute for it to be weaved in another factory over the road. Restoration of the jute mill commenced in 1992 and it opened its doors to the public for the first time on the sixteenth of September nineteen ninety six.

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