Theme Park

A Theme Park is really a focused or specialized form of amusement park, which has its activities and features focused on a specific theme, historic period, activity ands so on. Often closely aligned to or combined with a museum.

In many ways theme parks are also performative in nature, providing spaces in which (anthropological, technological, historical, futuristic, etc ) re-enactments, reconstructions, and related activities take place.

Some South African theme parks
Crocodile Creek, Durban

Gold Reef City, Gauteng

Ratanga Junction, Cape Town

Sun City, Northwestern Province

uShaka Marine World, Durban

Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum, Pretoria

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