We once did an April Fool's joke on a Narnia theme park of sorts. (NarniaWeb uses to do rather epic April Fools jokes.) It was more like a Narnian themed summer camp. I have to admit I was the driving force behind it drawing on my experience working at a YMCA camp and a hunting lodge I was familiar with. I wonder if I still have the flyer I made up on a hard drive or CD somewhere. 

Found a screen cap from the way back machine of April 2007

I would love to see a revival of the museum exhibit that traveled for a bit only expanded on to include things from the BBC as well as stage productions from around the world.

All this talk about a Narnia theme park reminds me of myself as a kid, how I would dream of when I got older, I would like to buy a big plot of land (an acreage), and set up a Narnia theme park with the entry being of course the professor's house, with the backdoor having the appearance of a wardrobe in a spare room and of course the land and grounds would have been designed to look Narnian.  I'd while away many a long road trip either to northern Victoria or across the Nullarbor to Western Australia to visit one of my couple of grandparents while dreaming of this notion.  These days, however, I think a combination of the theme park and museum structure would be wonderful!

This topic makes me think again also, how I really could picture Australian desert landscapes being used in filming of HHB!  Ahhh the dream... 🤩 

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This topic makes me think again also, how I really could picture Australian desert landscapes being used in filming of HHB!  Ahhh the dream...

Well, that would at least settle the dispute we were having in another discussion recently, over whether or not there really are kangaroos in Narnia...  

Seriously, I'm quite at home with the thought of a Narnia museum / visitor centre with some interactive / fun elements, like an adventure playground or other life-size re-creations of scenes and locations from the books for visitors to walk through and kids to play in. I think what had me baulking at the original suggestion was that the whole notion of "theme park" suggests it's mainly or totally just rides and over-commercialised stuff, as opposed to something that genuinely captures something of the atmosphere of the books and hopefully would be thought-provoking as well as enjoyable.

I don't think there would be a zoo in Narnia, and a theme park in our world sounds too much like that kind of thing.  A park with artificial talking animals might be something like a circus, and I don't think C. S. Lewis would have approved of it. Should there be exhibits relating to Narnia?  That could probably be done in a more educational and tasteful way.   Some people are more attracted to something visual, which may encourage them to read the books. Artwork would be a good thing such as a three dimensional scene showing Lucy meeting Mr. Tumnus by the lamppost.  I think that would be much better than amusement park rides, and it would be much less commercial.