The Kirkcudbright Development Trust contacted Glow with their requirement of creating giant inflatable planets as a permanent installation called ‘The Dark Space Planetarium’.
The Trust are engaged in a major capital project to fully renovate and reinvigorate the former, and much-loved, Johnston School building in Kirkcudbright. The 19th Century former school closed in 2010 and quickly fell into disrepair. The Trust have now successfully secured the future of the building, raising over £2.6 million to restore and develop it for community use. The opening of the Dark Space Planetarium will take place this summer and features the incredible array of inflatables that Glow Inflatables made for our client, the planets give the space a really immersive feel like the visitors have drifted into space bringing our well known planets in the solar system to life. Saturn featured rigid rings that were also suspended separately in the space and they were made in scale with one another.
Kirkcudbright will be home to this new state-of-the art visitor attraction which will inform and educate people of all ages as it celebrates the majesty and infinity of space, the wonders of science, the thrill of space exploration, and the magic of the Dark Skies right here in Dumfries and Galloway. Glow were thrilled to be involved in making the project a reality.