Museums & Galleries · Ayrshire
Big Idea
📍 KA12 8FA
Photo: Leslie Barrie (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
The Big Idea was a science centre located in the town of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. Located on the former Nobel Explosives manufacturing site on the Ardeer Peninsula, a new science and learning centre was planned in 2000 by the Millennium Commission, to celebrate the history of invention and inventors. — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Make a proper break of it — these stays are all within 25 miles.
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🚆 Or come by train
- Irvine 0.8 miles
- Stevenston 2.8 miles
- Kilwinning 3.3 miles
Straight-line distances · live departures on each station page