Tourism boss revives calls for oil rig museum in Aberdeen

aberdeen oil rig museum — Could Aberdeen's new harbour play host to a national energy museum - perhaps on a decommissioned oil rig similar to the Ocean Star attraction in Texas (pictured) - as the north-east sets out to tell its industrial past?

Aberdeen has been urged to cash in on European oil capital status, emulating the likes of Texas, Berlin, Viborg and Istanbul by opening a national energy museum.

The suggestion, by a senior figure at Visit Scotland, has reignited hopes for a visitor attraction, based at the city’s new south harbour, on a decommissioned North Sea oil rig.

Rob Dickson, the tourist board’s director of industry and destination development, lamented the lack of an energy centre as a “missed opportunity”.

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