Millennium Dome: General Background

The World's Biggest Dome - "Millennium Experience"

The Millennium Experience will bring Britain together around the most ambitious and exciting programme of millennium celebrations in the world.

The Millennium Experience will show a Britain which is embracing the millennium with optimism as ‘Time To Make A Difference'. It will be the national focus of the marking of the millennium through projects funded by the Millennium Commission.

The Experience encompasses The Dome in 2000 and The Challenge beginning in 1998, leading to the nation-wide Festival of events during 2000.

The Challenge

The Challenge will give everyone in Britain the opportunity to participate in projects that will make a lasting difference to our society. The Festival will provide the backing for local millennium celebrations the length and breadth of Britain.

Millennium Dome

The Dome at Greenwich will be the centrepiece of the UK’s millennium celebrations - an international icon and the largest building of its kind in the world. It will contain exhibits and attractions on a scale never seen before. 12 million visitors are expected will explore the possibilities of their own personal futures in the next millennium.

Opening Night

A spectacular opening ceremony on 31 December 1999 will herald the beginning of a year-long celebration of British ideas and technology. Exhibits and attractions designed by Britain’s best talents will open up the choices facing humankind in the 21st century and beyond: how we might work, learn, rest and play: what our bodies and minds can do, and how beliefs are formed; opportunities to improve our local, national and global environments.

The Dome’s performance arena will be the setting for the central experience a show with live performers and stunning visual effects repeated throughout the day. Ranged around it in an entrancing and varied setting will he the exhibition zones.

is where East meets West at the (0° Longitude); World Time is set . Remember the new millennium started in .

Greenwich lies on the , a few minutes by rail or tube, or a short river cruise from central London. If you want to visit Greenwich and information on visiting London, England then see . There is the famous to visit and the . Just down river is the which is close to

The at Greenwich is in along with the and the (on which the in Washington DC, USA is based). For information on astronomy visit

The starts in Greenwich Park every Spring.

Greenwich has a long heritage; it was the birth place of and his daughters (Bloody Mary) and (The Virgin Queen). All the English monarchs can be found at .

It has seen many famous visitors from through to . This and a lot more in .

For information on all the other places in the world called Greenwich including Greenwich Village, New York City, USA then visit .

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