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Cardiff: Doctor Who Up Close exhibition, Cardiff Bay

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Veröffentlicht am 20:52 27.08.2007 von tashaway



Cardiff may be known for the rugby games at its Millennium Stadium, for its castles and its strangely named Brains beer, but in recent times and in certain circles it has become perhaps even more famous for being the place where the BBC films its popular TV series, ‘Doctor Who’.

An appropriate place then, for Doctor Who Up Close, an exhibition about the show – although what the boy and I didn’t realise at first was that the Red Dragon Centre, where it’s housed, is not actually in Cardiff city centre, but rather a 30 minute walk (or a shorter water taxi ride) along the River Taff, in Cardiff Bay.

The exhibition contains life-size models of various Doctor Who monsters, such as the Cybermen, Sycorax, Ood, and of course, the famous Daleks. There are costumes worn by the doctor and his companions. There are flashing lights and snippets from the show and brief biographies of all the former doctors (in both English and Welsh). And perhaps, if you had merely come to get up close to what you’d seen on television, then the exhibit as it stands would suffice.

However, what we felt was missing was an element of interactivity, a chance to be part of the so-called ‘magic of television’. I guess that we hoped to see how things were done, what happened behind the scenes, rather than just being retold the story of each episode (and only each episode up to Rose’s departure – the most recent series, where Martha joins the doctor – is only briefly touched upon in this exhibition).

Indeed, what I found most interesting wasn’t the exhibition itself, but the on-site shop we walked through afterwards. It was amazing to see the variety of Doctor Who merchandise available: from children’s suitcases designed to look like the TARDIS, to Doctor Who slippers, and of course, walls of models of both the heroes and the monsters.

It was £5.00 for an adult ticket the Doctor Who exhibition. As we entered and got our blue wristbands, the woman behind the counter said that we could return as many times as we liked during the day. For us at least, the one visit was enough.

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