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[1], Durban
Gold Reef City, Gauteng[2]
Ratanga Junction[3], Cape Town
Sun City, Northwestern Province[4]
uShaka Marine World[5], Durban
Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum[6] , Pretoria
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusement_park
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