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UK2K: The Millennium Dome


Marking 2000 as a landmark year, the Millennium Dome "celebrates British ideas and technology and examines the choices facing humankind in the 21st century: how we might work, rest, and play; what our bodies and our minds do; how beliefs are formed; and opportunities to improve our local, national and global environments." Using fourteen themed zones to explore such aforementioned musings about the future, the Dome poses itself as a hands-on science museum. The various zones are labeled simply, utilizing terms such as Body, Mind, Talk, and Faith, and surround a centre arena that thrice daily puts on a carnival style theatrical production. The live performance "propels visitors through the story of humanity," employing "high wire acts and gymnasts, virtual reality, and other special effects." Located on Greenwich pennisula along the River tHames, the Dome is environment-friendly with special care given to the ecology during construction and massive recycling efforts being taken. Costing over £750 million and only open during the year 2000, the Millennium Dome is located on the Jubilee Line at North Greenwich, the largest Tube Stop in all of Europe.