I went when it opened, and I literally cannot remember anything about it. It was that memorable.
There was a walk through human body and an air cannon sponge ball play area I remember, and a cinema outside showing Blackadder Back and Forth.
Space in the middle for a show I think, but I have no idea what was put on.
The main things I remember are the acrobatics and the body exhibit – mostly how it stank to high heaven like rubber. Oh and the relaxation room, that was genuinely great. It had a coach load of primary school kids laying down and appreciating the peace, a miracle in itself.
I went on a school trip. We actually travelled there along the Thames on an old WWII era ship from Southend Pier.
There’s only really a few things I remember from it. Coca-Cola was handing out free glass bottle samples, because they said they were planning on doing away with plastic. Twenty four years later, I guess that’s not happening. There was a bunch of weird and wacky concept designs for things like pushbikes that would never get built. There was a cinema showing a special edition Blackadder episode.
Basically all I remember from it.
I remember a giant beating heart hanging from the ceiling. I assume inside the person in photo 3 but it could also have just been random.
Well I always wondered what the Hahoos from In the Night Garden did before getting on the show.
I did visit it with my grandmother that year. I remember it being fine. A lot of promotion was put into the body zone and it was ok. There was also a money zone which had Trevor McDonald reading fake news reports about what would happen if no one spent any money. There was also lots about climate change (or global warming as we used to call it). Again those had fake weather reports which actually seem mild compared to what we see on the actual weather these days.
I didn’t see the show in the middle as there wasn’t time and I had little interest. My main memento of the day was a card with a picture of me with ET (he was projected in) which came from BT’s communication zone.
I remember going as a 7 year old with my parents and grandma and finding myself bored senseless.
At the time I thought it was one of those grown up things I was too young to appreciate/understand but when I spoke about it with my parents a few years later they were like “Oh we were bored senseless too”
I remember spending most of a school trip there in a big ball pit yeeting balls at my teachers when they weren’t looking.
I remember a giant bookcase and crying because I was tired. I was 6 in 2000 and don’t really remember a lot from my childhood!
I worked there from march 2000 till it closed! That really is a blast from the past.
I recall it was just like a massive trade fair with sponsors handing out ‘goodie bags’ full of corporate shite. It was full of people looking to be entertained and slowly realising this was it.
I worked on it for Millennium Eve, the whole show, sat on the roof to watch the river of fireworks. Made my monthly wage in 1 night, which was nice!
The whole “it’s shit” was a media fabrication, a lot of the exhibits were awesome but the rot had already set in.
That said it should have been in the Midlands just like the new national stadium should have been in the Midlands. It’s such a ball ache having to get to London from anywhere North of Watford Gap be that by train, car or bus.
So anyone there would’ve probably been pissed off by the journey and the rip-off prices for basic stuff just because it’s London.
I got to go on the news because I was a “child-consultant”
Looks like something out of a fever dream
The only thing I can remember apart from the giant bodies was walking through a tunnel lined with £50 notes and then there been a million quid in cash.
I’ve still got a Millennium Dome carrier bag somewhere.
I remember there was a ride of sorts where you went sideways through different biomes but that’s about it.
The first image isn’t from the Millennium Dome, it’s from 2012 – In the night garden I think when this came up before.
All I remember, never having gone during the MD days, is it being all over the news when the DeBeers diamond heist was foiled. Some amazing footage of smoke grenades and ‘cleaners’ pulling out MP5s to stop the gang who had just pelted a JCB through the fence.
I went to the crime museum at New Scotland Yard a few years back, they have the fake diamond they substituted out for the real millennium star on display along with some other cool bits, and the curator said that DeBeers didn’t want to substitute it, claiming their glass was military grade etc. The Flying Squad convinced them otherwise, and the day of the raid the gang got through it using a [nail gun and a sledgehammer](https://i2-prod.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/article19264187.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_the_millennium_dome_heist_with_ross_kemp_11.jpg), when the first officer entered the exhibit one of the raider’s hands was about an inch away from the diamond.
Look the CCTV and the police surveillance stuff up online, it’s like an actual movie.
I went on a school trip presumably in the year 2000. All I can remember is falling in the fountain outside as soon as we got off the coach, and later getting some sort of BT card with ET on it? So not very memorable at all!
There’s something terrifying about this
Looks creepy as anything
The main thing I remember was the body zone, specifically the big room with the giant beating heart on the ceiling. If I remember right they showed how the heartbeat changed during a car crash, which was incredibly loud and scared the shit out of me.
Ooh I went there with my mum 🙂
They had their own mascots called Cogs and Sprinx who were the ‘timekeepers‘ of the dome.
They had a cinema where they showed a Blackadder special..Best part by a mile
I went not long after it opened. Would have been about 13. From what I can remember I really enjoyed it and had a great day. Loads of interactive games to play on, which seemed dated now but at the time were cool. With the tech available now in terms of simulators etc it would be great to do it again for a year.
Also, didn’t we have to get tickets by filling in the back of lottery ticket with the dates we wanted?
Picture 3. Picture 3 is the thing that gave me nightmares for a long time. I was 3.5 years old when we visited the millennium dome, and two faceless figures melded into one another was just creepy for my child brain. It’s like PTSD just awoke inside of me by seeing that image
Tbh I’m not sure that stuff was even there the first time I went in 2007 for a King Tut exhibition.
I remember the body zone too, the heart, the lice in the hair, I think a brain court?
We have videos too of us as kids as news reporters and also pictures with a holographic ET?
I worried my family that I got lost because I’d decided I could go to the loo by myself and they got panicked
I remember being a kid and being in absolute panic in the human body thing because of the beating heart.
I remember the Solero factory and there was some awesome show that mixed live action with a film, and at the end the mirror wall lifted up and the character from the film ushered us to another room. That was pretty cool
I worked there. I was 18 years old worked there for 6 months in one of the cafes and saved enough money to go travelling for the next 6 months before going to uni. I grew up walking distance away and we all used to go to a pub nearby called the pilot after work.
The first month to two months eveyone who came just complained about what a let down it was. Then it switched to mainly school trips and people who came out of morbid curiosity. The definite highlight was when those guys tried to pull of an armed robbery of the diamond exhibit and the whole place was full of armed police which was pretty exciting.
Some things I’ve not seen mentioned yet:
A cube of £1M cash. A machine that turned disposable cups into pencils. A sort of concrete igloo thing with calming lights and music.
I had a Palm 3 mini tablet like we used to have, primarily because, when the Millennium Dome was opened, all the guides were given them to use to advise on directions etc. A friend bought a joblot in an auction and I got one. I miss the days of those Palm
I didn’t realise In The Night Garden was that old?
I vividly remember 2 and 3, but 1 and 4 are just weird nightmare fuel that I must have expunged from my memory for the sake of my sanity.
We did a school trip when it opened. It was like a fever dream. There was a sensory bit that you sat in and it changed colour, and the walk through body was traumatising
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I went when it opened, and I literally cannot remember anything about it. It was that memorable.
There was a walk through human body and an air cannon sponge ball play area I remember, and a cinema outside showing Blackadder Back and Forth.
Space in the middle for a show I think, but I have no idea what was put on.
The main things I remember are the acrobatics and the body exhibit – mostly how it stank to high heaven like rubber. Oh and the relaxation room, that was genuinely great. It had a coach load of primary school kids laying down and appreciating the peace, a miracle in itself.
I went on a school trip. We actually travelled there along the Thames on an old WWII era ship from Southend Pier.
There’s only really a few things I remember from it. Coca-Cola was handing out free glass bottle samples, because they said they were planning on doing away with plastic. Twenty four years later, I guess that’s not happening. There was a bunch of weird and wacky concept designs for things like pushbikes that would never get built. There was a cinema showing a special edition Blackadder episode.
Basically all I remember from it.
I remember a giant beating heart hanging from the ceiling. I assume inside the person in photo 3 but it could also have just been random.
Well I always wondered what the Hahoos from In the Night Garden did before getting on the show.
I did visit it with my grandmother that year. I remember it being fine. A lot of promotion was put into the body zone and it was ok. There was also a money zone which had Trevor McDonald reading fake news reports about what would happen if no one spent any money. There was also lots about climate change (or global warming as we used to call it). Again those had fake weather reports which actually seem mild compared to what we see on the actual weather these days.
I didn’t see the show in the middle as there wasn’t time and I had little interest. My main memento of the day was a card with a picture of me with ET (he was projected in) which came from BT’s communication zone.
I remember going as a 7 year old with my parents and grandma and finding myself bored senseless.
At the time I thought it was one of those grown up things I was too young to appreciate/understand but when I spoke about it with my parents a few years later they were like “Oh we were bored senseless too”
I remember spending most of a school trip there in a big ball pit yeeting balls at my teachers when they weren’t looking.
I remember a giant bookcase and crying because I was tired. I was 6 in 2000 and don’t really remember a lot from my childhood!
I worked there from march 2000 till it closed! That really is a blast from the past.
I recall it was just like a massive trade fair with sponsors handing out ‘goodie bags’ full of corporate shite. It was full of people looking to be entertained and slowly realising this was it.
I remember a giant table football
HAAAA-HOOOOOOOS
[Obligatory half hour camcorder footage of the millenium dome](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVl1jHrCAs4)
I worked on it for Millennium Eve, the whole show, sat on the roof to watch the river of fireworks. Made my monthly wage in 1 night, which was nice!
The whole “it’s shit” was a media fabrication, a lot of the exhibits were awesome but the rot had already set in.
That said it should have been in the Midlands just like the new national stadium should have been in the Midlands. It’s such a ball ache having to get to London from anywhere North of Watford Gap be that by train, car or bus.
So anyone there would’ve probably been pissed off by the journey and the rip-off prices for basic stuff just because it’s London.
I got to go on the news because I was a “child-consultant”
Looks like something out of a fever dream
The only thing I can remember apart from the giant bodies was walking through a tunnel lined with £50 notes and then there been a million quid in cash.
I’ve still got a Millennium Dome carrier bag somewhere.
I remember there was a ride of sorts where you went sideways through different biomes but that’s about it.
The first image isn’t from the Millennium Dome, it’s from 2012 – In the night garden I think when this came up before.
All I remember, never having gone during the MD days, is it being all over the news when the DeBeers diamond heist was foiled. Some amazing footage of smoke grenades and ‘cleaners’ pulling out MP5s to stop the gang who had just pelted a JCB through the fence.
I went to the crime museum at New Scotland Yard a few years back, they have the fake diamond they substituted out for the real millennium star on display along with some other cool bits, and the curator said that DeBeers didn’t want to substitute it, claiming their glass was military grade etc. The Flying Squad convinced them otherwise, and the day of the raid the gang got through it using a [nail gun and a sledgehammer](https://i2-prod.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/article19264187.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_the_millennium_dome_heist_with_ross_kemp_11.jpg), when the first officer entered the exhibit one of the raider’s hands was about an inch away from the diamond.
Look the CCTV and the police surveillance stuff up online, it’s like an actual movie.
I went on a school trip presumably in the year 2000. All I can remember is falling in the fountain outside as soon as we got off the coach, and later getting some sort of BT card with ET on it? So not very memorable at all!
There’s something terrifying about this
Looks creepy as anything
The main thing I remember was the body zone, specifically the big room with the giant beating heart on the ceiling. If I remember right they showed how the heartbeat changed during a car crash, which was incredibly loud and scared the shit out of me.
Ooh I went there with my mum 🙂
They had their own mascots called Cogs and Sprinx who were the ‘timekeepers‘ of the dome.
They had a cinema where they showed a Blackadder special..Best part by a mile
I went not long after it opened. Would have been about 13. From what I can remember I really enjoyed it and had a great day. Loads of interactive games to play on, which seemed dated now but at the time were cool. With the tech available now in terms of simulators etc it would be great to do it again for a year.
Also, didn’t we have to get tickets by filling in the back of lottery ticket with the dates we wanted?
Picture 3. Picture 3 is the thing that gave me nightmares for a long time. I was 3.5 years old when we visited the millennium dome, and two faceless figures melded into one another was just creepy for my child brain. It’s like PTSD just awoke inside of me by seeing that image
Tbh I’m not sure that stuff was even there the first time I went in 2007 for a King Tut exhibition.
I remember the body zone too, the heart, the lice in the hair, I think a brain court?
We have videos too of us as kids as news reporters and also pictures with a holographic ET?
I worried my family that I got lost because I’d decided I could go to the loo by myself and they got panicked
I remember being a kid and being in absolute panic in the human body thing because of the beating heart.
NYE Dec 2001. Last night of the dome. Ministry of Sound – an amazing night. [https://www.nme.com/news/music/nme-1124-1310250](https://www.nme.com/news/music/nme-1124-1310250)
Check out the video: [https://youtu.be/AId6_KHFYSg](https://youtu.be/AId6_KHFYSg)
I remember the Solero factory and there was some awesome show that mixed live action with a film, and at the end the mirror wall lifted up and the character from the film ushered us to another room. That was pretty cool
I worked there. I was 18 years old worked there for 6 months in one of the cafes and saved enough money to go travelling for the next 6 months before going to uni. I grew up walking distance away and we all used to go to a pub nearby called the pilot after work.
The first month to two months eveyone who came just complained about what a let down it was. Then it switched to mainly school trips and people who came out of morbid curiosity. The definite highlight was when those guys tried to pull of an armed robbery of the diamond exhibit and the whole place was full of armed police which was pretty exciting.
Some things I’ve not seen mentioned yet:
A cube of £1M cash. A machine that turned disposable cups into pencils. A sort of concrete igloo thing with calming lights and music.
I had a Palm 3 mini tablet like we used to have, primarily because, when the Millennium Dome was opened, all the guides were given them to use to advise on directions etc. A friend bought a joblot in an auction and I got one. I miss the days of those Palm
I didn’t realise In The Night Garden was that old?
I vividly remember 2 and 3, but 1 and 4 are just weird nightmare fuel that I must have expunged from my memory for the sake of my sanity.
We did a school trip when it opened. It was like a fever dream. There was a sensory bit that you sat in and it changed colour, and the walk through body was traumatising