The Millennium Dome was the original name of the large dome-shaped building on the Greenwich Peninsula in South East London, England, which housed a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium. As of 2022, it is the ninth largest building in the world by usable volume. The exhibition was open to the public from 1 January to 31 December 2000. The project and exhibition were highly contentious and attracted barely half of the 12 million customers its sponsors forecasted, and so were deemed a failure by the press. All the original exhibition elements were sold or dismantled.
Millennium Dome
The dome, seen from above
The dome, seen from the London Cable Car, with Canary Wharf in the background.
The Millennium Dome Show, October 2000
The Greenwich Peninsula is an area of Greenwich in South East London, England. It is bounded on three sides by a loop of the Thames, between the Isle of Dogs to the west and Silvertown to the east. To the south is the rest of Greenwich, to the south-east is Charlton.
Greenwich Peninsula, viewed from 1 Canada Square in 2000, with the Millennium Dome (or The O2) in the centre.
70-84 River Way, a row of early 19th-century terraced houses on Greenwich Peninsula, now Grade II listed
The west side of the peninsula from the Thames in 2001 - part of the glucose works.
The O2, the 2nd largest single-roofed structure in the world after the Philippine Arena
