I first visited Our Dynamic Earth as a child when it had first opened on a school trip and everyone in the class agreed that it had to be one of our greatest adventures.
You are taken on a journey through our planet’s history and it does not disappoint.
This is the perfect place to take your family (including the teenagers) because it makes education fun. The tickets are not too expensive when you consider that it is in the city centre and there are concession prices available.

Visiting Dynamic Earth is quite literally like stepping in to a time machine. Each section of the museum is a fascinating hands-on journey through time, revealing the complexities and diversity that is our planet. The immensity of the “Big Bang” is brought closer to home with shaking floors and lifelike volcanic eruptions, while the polar extremes are brought to our doorstep with a real iceberg. A portion of a tropical rainforest is created with accurate proportions and is brought to life with convincing models of mammals that blink and move when the rain falls on the trees and plants. All of this activity and movement is laced with informative voice-overs that invite you to explore and journey with them through the ages.

Given that there is so much to see, do and experience, walking through the whole of Dynamic Earth can easily take up to three or four hours as this is something that you certainly do not want to rush. The super-friendly and enthusiastic staff are always on hand to answer any questions.

I loved this museum when I visited, when you are younger the thought of a museum normally means something boring but this is quite the opposite. Within the museum there are lots of activitiues to take part in such as the volcanic eruption where you stand on a platform and see what it would be like in an erruption, the ice room, the tropical rainforest and lots more. It is quite well priced at just the same as most other museums and it has much more to offer!

I was quite young when this museum opened, and I just loved it. I would still love to go back there now, such was the ambition and flair of the place that there would be few people, regardless of age, that it would fail to impress. I can remember more details of this place than any other museum; the tiny dinosaur coming out of an egg, the huge jungle room and the real iceberg, smoothed by people’s instinctive gesture to touch. At least this is a museum that encourages the hands-on approach, and every room is an experience rather than a display cabinet of boredom like so many traditional museums can be. There are themes within the museum: desert, jungle; arctic etc, and each one is done to perfection in a unique way that inspires the interest of the unruliest kids. Located next to Arthur’s Seat, the museum is under a huge dome and when the entrance looks as good as that, you know you’re in for a treat.

Our Dynamic Earth is a modern museum. It tells the story of how the earth came to what it is. It has loads for kids and adults. There is loads to see and do and the prices are reasonable. I would suggest that it would fill about half a day!