Theme park, visitor attraction, waterpark, museum and gallery, heritage and Zoos News and comment from around the planet | Planet Attractions
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With a Disney legend joining Virgin Galactic, Edvard Munch making like Banksy, Boris Johnson setting a roadmap and Peppa Pig making her way to Florida, welcome to the latest edition of The Week with Planet Attractions

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The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) in Chicago, US, will reopen to the public in early March, with a new exhibition dedicated to the Marvel Universe.
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Merlin has announced plans to open the world’s first stand-alone Peppa Pig theme park, with the attraction coming to the Legoland Florida Resort in 2022.
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A conservation project at the National Museum of Norway in Oslo, Norway, has revealed the identity of the mysterious vandal who scrawled on Edvard Munch’s iconic work, The Scream.
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Fraunhofer IGD - one of the world's leading research institutions for applied visual computing - has developed an automated robotic arm designed to scan cultural objects in 3D.
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A British theme park fanatic known for his homemade immersive attractions has taken his time in lockdown to move in a new direction - producing a remote game show based on rollercoasters.
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All over the world, theme parks, museums, theatres, venues and more are currently off-limits thanks to COVID-19.
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April 26, 2021 will mark the 35th anniversary of the worst nuclear disaster in history, the meltdown of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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Cruise operator Carnival has made several new appointments within its senior team, with Stein Kruse, Jan Swartz and Peter Anderson all taking up senior positions within the company.
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The Charles Dickens Museum in London, UK, thought its plans for Christmas had been scuppered when the British capital found itself first in Tier 3 and now Tier 4.
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It’s been a rocky year for zoos and aquariums, with the Coronavirus pandemic drastically affecting the bottom line of animal attractions.
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