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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