Work is now underway to reinstate Dreamland as one of the UK’s best-loved amusement parks with a heritage story to tell.

The new Dreamland will not be a dry historical exhibit, but a living, breathing, multi-sensory environment telling Dreamland’s rich historic story using art, design, music and architecture to describe Britain’s amusement park heritage. This is a place that resonates with the sights, sounds and sensations that make for a classic amusement park experience, and which will excite and amaze people of all ages.

The first stage of this phased project is fully funded with £3.7m from the DCMS’s Sea Change programme, £3m from Heritage Lottery Fund and £3m from Thanet District Council. Phase One will see the Scenic Railway restored to its full working glory, alongside the historic rides collection and ‘Lord’ George Sanger’s menagerie cages. This stage of works will also see repairs to the cinema building, the reopening of the main park entrance, the introduction of a dedicated learning centre, exhibition area and community space, plus an events arena and refurbished car park.