Stonehenge visitor centre welcomes you with a cafe ticket office shop car and coach park a museum displaying priceless loans from salisbury museum and wiltshire museum and a changing special exhibition featuring collections which have recently included contemporary art photographs stonehenge bric a brac and archaeological treasures from museums around the world.
Stonehenge visitor centre roof.
The hidden code in the stonehenge visitor centre roof detail of the new visitor centre at stonehenge roof.
The new centre is located at the western end of the world heritage site on land adjacent to airman s corner and approximately 2 1 km from the stones.
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We look forward to welcoming you soon.
Located 1 5 miles to the west of the stone circle at airman s corner just within the world heritage site but out of sight of the monument the new visitor centre is designed with a light touch on.
In 2008 denton corker marshall was selected by english heritage in an invited competition to design a new visitor centre at stonehenge to replace the existing unpopular facilities.
Located 1 5 miles west of the stone circle but crucially still within the bounds of the unesco world heritage site which limits the capacity for expression the new visitor centre is a response to english heritage s long held desire to create a building with as little visual impact on the site as possible.
The design concept at the heart of the new stonehenge visitor centre which opened at the end of last year was a building that would blend unobtrusively into the wide open wiltshire landscape by evoking a copse of trees.
That they can be deciphered to reveal a hidden message.
It has been suggested that the similarity of the holes punched in the roof in appearance to the holes of punched computer tape means that there is a meaning to them.