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Architecture Notes
Event ID 702214
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/702214
A modern exhibition centre built on the southern tip of the Ardeer Peninsular [Peninsula], formerly occupied by Nobel's Explosives Ardeer Factory. It is situated across the mouth of the River Irvine from the town of Irvine, to which it is connected by a retractable footbridge known as 'The Bridge of Scottish Invention'.
The Big Idea was established with 14 million pounds of Lottery funding from the Millennium Project, and opened on 15 April 2000.
Information from RCAHMS (MKO). 2001.
