Added: 12/25/2005 |
Something new and brilliant to see in Greenwich Maritime MuseumThe National Maritime Museum Greenwich, Royal Observatory and the Queen's House offer a wide range of exhibitions, events and activities. So, what's on? There you can find the Greenwich Maritime Museum's collections, the fascinating history behind them and recent events. Here are some of current exhibitions.
While visiting the Greenwich Maritime Museum you can enjoy a live tour of the night sky in the temporary planetarium in Neptune Court, where children get free entry. There are special shows for under 6s at the weekend. Message is the latest New Visions commission - is a performance and exhibition. The performance was a semaphore signal that started at the Royal Observatory and was passed along the Thames to Horse Guards Parade on Remembrance Sunday.
The Coast Exposed photographic exhibition is a celebration of the British coast with images from the National Trust and Magnum Photos. The Coast Exposed is open until February 2006 in the Queen's House. Based on the Greenwich Maritime Museum's popular 2002 exhibition, Skin Deep traces the history and development of tattooing over the past 200 years. The exhibition has moved to the Aberdeen Maritime Museum, open to 5 March 2006. Here you can also explore the new Your Ocean gallery to find out about the impact of the ocean on our lives and the importance of sustaining it for the future. This is your opportunity to join the debate, have some fun and take positive action.
The newly-restored glass from the old Baltic Exchange is now on display at the London Maritime Museum. The glass - a memorial to members of the Exchange who lost their lives in the First World War - was destroyed by a bomb in 1992.
Here you can assist at one of the most spectacular recent events, having ralation to the Royal Observatory of the Greenwich Maritime Museum. 2 June 2005 saw the first results from the Millennium Simulation - the largest and most realistic simulation of cosmic structure ever developed, tracking how the first black holes formed and how today's universe came into being.
The announcement was made by the Virgo consortium - an international team of scientists from the UK, Germany, Canada and the USA.
In recent years probes such as WMAP have given astronomers detailed maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR), the pattern of radiation that covers the sky and was emitted when the Universe became transparent just 400,000 years after the Big Bang. The ripples in the almost smooth CMBR mark where matter ultimately froze out to make the pattern of galaxies we see today.
Following the evolution of the universe across that time has proved difficult. Scientists are still not sure how the early cosmos evolved into the stars and galaxies we see today - a tiny component of the mass of the universe. Cold Dark Matter, made up of as yet undetected particles, accounts for 25% of the mass of cosmos and a huge 70% is Dark Energy, a mysterious force apparently causing the expansion of the universe to speed up.
The Millennium Simulation is a brilliant example of the interaction between theory and experiment in astronomy as the latest observations of astronomical objects can be used to test the predictions of theoretical models of the history of the Universe.
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