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British Museum Was the Most Visited UK Attraction in 2024
The British Museum held the record for the most visited attraction in the UK for 2024 for the second year in a row. According ...
British Museum tops UK attractions list, but the effects of the pandemic still linger on
Official figures have revealed that the British Museum was – for the second year in a row – the UK’s most-visited attraction ...
Most-visited UK attractions named as tourist numbers stay stubbornly low
UK tourist attractions are still experiencing lower visitor numbers compared to pre-Covid times, with an 8.8 per cent ...
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Visits to tourism attractions grew 3.4% last year but challenges remain
There were 157.2 million visits to 400 of the most popular UK venues in 2024, according to trade body the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.
10 Unusual Attractions in Japan That Look Nothing Like What You’d Expect
Japan is famous for combining ancient traditions with futuristic cities, but it also has a surprising side. Scattered across the country are places that look like they belong somewhere else entirely: ...
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Restoration Reveals the Secrets of One of Winston Churchill’s Most Beloved Paintings
Long thought to be a family heirloom, the artwork was actually gifted to the British prime minister in 1942 during the ...
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Museum of Failure: A look at the legal battle over what could be SF's newest attraction
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The founder of a highly anticipated pop-up experience museum, set to open in San Francisco next month, says the exhibit is no longer opening. However, organizers for the U.S ...
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A Las Vegas bar, a wedding venue, and a Swedish hotel: How retired Boeing 747s are being turned into tourist attractions
but a select few have found new life as tourist attractions in countries around the world. A UK airport converted an old 747 into a party venue. British Airways retired its fleet of Boeing 747s in ...
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Plans Are Taking Shape for an Extravagant New Tourist Attraction Inside London’s World War II-Era Tunnels
The completed tourist attraction will feature a memorial to the London Blitz, as well as a museum, an art gallery ... they did serve as the offices of British Intelligence’s Special Operations ...
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Catalogue of Fishes in the British Museum
Not merely the higher divisions of the class, but the genera and species are all fully characterised, and to each species is appended a list of the specimens of it contained in the British Museum.
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Secret underground spy tunnels that inspired James Bond novels could become the world’s next can’t-miss tourist attraction
Getty Images The down-below destination will be part museum ... local attractions. Built between 1940 and 1942 as a deep-level air raid shelter, the tunnels were dug by hand by the British ...
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What it’s like inside the secret World War II tunnels set to become a huge new tourist attraction
Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, worked here in 1944 as a liaison officer for the British Navy. “We have a partnership with the Military Intelligence Museum, the official museum of ...