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The Guardian // Lifestyle

Beam me up, Scotland: a journey into outer space in Dumfries and Galloway

Monday 5th May 2025, 6:00AM

Ten years ago, the late land artist Charles Jencks created Crawick Multiverse out of an ugly open-cast mine in southern Scotland. Today, it is an inspiring exploration of the universeThe sun warms my face as I pause between the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies to gaze at the rolling hills of Dumfries and Galloway beyond. I am not, surprisingly enough, in outer space. I’m at the Crawick Multiverse, a cosmos-themed land art installation in the south of Scotland that was built on the site of an old open-cast coal mine and is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.The galaxies here are huge, spiralling mounds of earth, their perimeters reaching out towards one another but never quite touching. Continue reading...

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