 from the Dairy Girls show that needs no introduction but there's a taster display that is going to open tomorrow at the visitor's centre where you can go along and give feedback ahead of the launch of the wider exhibition and let it that Dairy City and Sturban District Council Tourism Manager Margaret Edwards joins us now. So Margaret this isn't a full exhibition it's a taster event but people can go along and maybe get an idea of what to expect and then you're looking for a bit of feedback is that right? Yes that's correct yeah we thought it'd be a good idea to put it out there now so people get a chance to come along get a flavour of obviously what the exhibition is going to really entail when we open in the summer but really wanted to kind of wet people's appetite I suppose with something a little taste of what was to come and really use this as an opportunity to engage people around the whole idea of what the Dairy Girls experience could be and what we should really be looking towards you know this is very much a pilot I suppose and trying to test the waters to see what the level of interest is in developing something then that would be much more of an experience. And you say a Dairy Girls experience and well the plan is to make it that more than just an exhibition there's going to be a bit of an interactive experience as well. That's correct yes so we're very fortunate that we've been able to work along with Hatrick Productions so obviously the company who made the show and they have given us access to all the various props and things that they used obviously particularly in the last series so we've got access to that so we'll use some of that obviously in situ in the Tower Museum to kind of create that kind of physical space but also adding to that then with the use of augmented reality so whenever you come into the exhibition space in the Tower Museum you'll see physical elements obviously to show you that perhaps you're in the Quinn kitchen and you'll meet Ma Mary and her sister and Grandaddo and then but also within that space there'll be kind of virtual spaces as well so we can actually then go into those spaces using an iPad and you kind of click on various props and that will then give you much more of an insightful experience once you're in that space digitally. I can see this already being a huge hit for hen parties. Taylor made. It's great to see the success of Dairy Girls and already I mean without this exhibition it's bringing people to the city and they want to see some of the streets where the Dairy Girls you know walked and some of the sights and so on. Absolutely I mean I think certainly the staff at the Dairy where the office of the taster display will be tomorrow will tell us they get a lot of people coming in a lot of tourists coming particularly for not obviously not solely just for Dairy Girls but they've been kind of prompted to come to the area because of watching Dairy Girls and we know some of the stats will show that over like over two million people around the world have watched Dairy Girls between it being on Channel 4 and also of course on Netflix as well so it's reached out to a very you know wide global audience and then we'll try and capture some of that in the exhibition as well and people come already to go get the photograph taken at the mural there beside four side just on the side the walls and there are various things people can you go and have an afternoon tea that's kind of themed to Dairy Girls that you can go in a walk into her that's kind of it takes you around as she said some of the locations so already there is something there that people can go and experience so we're wanting to see then if we can really add to that with this exhibition. Yeah well it's all inevitable given the huge success of Dairy Girls over two million people having seen it and you talk about you know murals and themed teas and now the exhibition it's all great because I suppose for visitors you kind of have to give them what they want and they're coming to Dairy for so much more but a lot of people will be drawn to the city now by Dairy Girls. Absolutely and I think evidence would show that those kind of shows do draw people and you know the likes of people going to New York maybe to visit the friends experience because obviously they've been captured by the show or obviously people going to have some kind of father-tale experience you know on Craig Island whatever that might be it was not a dedicated place there but those shows definitely do capture people's imagination and they do in gender quite a lot of interest. The earlier that I think was towards the end of last year and I visited Dairy and their partners and done a goal they ran a competition around Dairy Girls and one of the prizes was to come to the city because of Dairy Girls and that actually was won by somebody in America who's now coming now to the city I think sometime over Easter because they won that prize you know so there's certainly a lot of interest around the world and it definitely has something about the I suppose just the content of the show the slightly irreverent humour within it the characters and cells I think there's something that other people can really I suppose latch into and really kind of associate with to some extent especially those of us who are from Northern Ireland it's very much about that whole experience of what it was like here in the 90s. Yes. And we also have of course the anniversary of the Goodfellay agreement coming up in April and that's that was a big part of the last series you know and we'll have that within the within this particular exhibition as well to kind of pick up on that particular anniversary. But the whole tone of the show as well Margaret you know it would lend people to to warming to the city and to the locations that feature in it so tell me about the Taster Exhibition and then the Fall Exhibition when when is it likely to open? Well as you said the Taster opens tomorrow in the Visitary Centre in Waterloo Place and what that will be really is we're going to put a few of the items that we're going to have on display ultimately in the big exhibition in the Termsium in Visitary so outside you'll see a graphic saying you'll come and see come on and come on to hear the crack as it were and come inside and the call to action is come in and have a look and we'll have a few items from some of the characters some of the clothes of the characters wore some of the clothes of Manmari wore a uniform from one of the characters will have Aaron's diary there as well and we'll also have this polling box because we really want to kind of capture into that idea of what was happening towards the end of that series when they were all going in to vote to obviously on the Goodfellay agreement because that's very particular now as we approach the anniversary so we'll have a box as well with the original polling station sign from the show to try and encourage them people to give their feedback as to what they're saying when they come into Visitary so that'll be there until the end of June and then we will open up the main exhibition then we'll open at the start of July in the Termsium and that obviously will have more of the content and we'll take on board some of the comments that have been made as well that might determine then what's in the full exhibition we'll do our best to do that in the afternoon because obviously we'll work with what we have in terms of what is available to us from the show but we really want to encourage people to give their feedback on the show and who maybe they identify with if they identify within the characters themselves perhaps as one thing and also maybe to allow over the time to give a brief reflection or even just comment on the Goodfellay agreement we don't get into the heavy political analysis of what has happened over the last 25 years or how you know we're not that's not what we're about but we want to just recognise the part of the last series of Derragers and we have all the electoral cards for each of the characters that were made obviously for that particular scene and we know it's a big part of how it ends so we really wanted to ensure that we kind of got something in there that people could just say you know something about that. No spoilers because I actually haven't seen that episode yet. I'm sorry. But I actually haven't seen the episode yet so I'm looking forward to it. But listen good luck with the Taster event and then the exhibition when it opens in full in July. Margaret thanks for having a chat with us. Thank you very much.