MAD News
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New exhibit – Mechanical Poppies
This month we will start displaying a fascinating piece which was designed and installed by John Marsden. Originally made for an exhibition of Loughborough Grammar school, this memorial installation was on display at the school in 2018 to mark the anniversary of the...
MAD Mention in Bent Magazine
In August we had a press visit from freelance journalist Adrian Gillan for Bent Magazine. Bent Magazine is a top national online gay magazine. He was writing a travel feature about Stratford upon Avon and wanted to include our MAD Museum. Here is what Adrian kindly...
Winter 2019 Opening Times – October to March 2020
Winter is coming. From Tuesday 1st October 2019 we change our opening times to the following: 1st October 2019 until 31st March 2020 Weekdays 10:30am – 4:30pm Weekends and Holidays 10:00am – 5:30pm October half...
Summer Design Competition – The Winners
Over the Summer holidays we asked visitors to invent a new weird and wonderful track pack for our marble run wall. Hundreds of people entered and the Judges (MAD’s 4 Managers) had the challenging task of selecting 3 winners. It was very tricky to pick only 3...
Changes to our Educational Discounts – 2019/20
From 1st October 2019 The MAD Museum is increasing its educational prices. These discounts have not been changed in over 7 years and since they were first put in place, we have made the following improvements to the museum and to our educational services: We opened an...
Review from Metalwork Artist
Ali Pickard is a trained metalwork artist and designer who is just getting into making automata. She recently visited our MAD Museum and wrote an article about her trip for A-N The Artist Information Company. https://www.a-n.co.uk/ “They cater really well for...
New Art From Steve Sherwin
We have just started displaying a brand new, brilliant piece from one of our top resident artists - Steve Sherwin. If you’ve been to our MAD Museum recently, you would have seen his ‘Celerity Eric’, ‘Autumnmotion’ and ‘Mech Ball’.Sherwin produces intricate, incredibly...
We’ve reached 1,000 Excellent Reviews on Trip Advisor
Thank you very much! We have hit the 1,000 mark and would like to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who has visited and taken the time to leave us some feedback. We always read your comments and try to reply to each one. Thank you for all your kind words about our...
Top 5 places to visit this Summer in Stratford upon Avon
We are proud to be included in Stratford Buzz’s top 5 places to visit, read the full article here -
Summer 2019 Design Competition
Saturday 20th July - Monday 2nd September 2019If you have been to The MAD (Mechanical Art & Design) Museum recently, you will know there is an interactive wall for visitors to build their own marble runs on. Using inspiration from around the museum, the wall...
Summer Holiday 2019 Opening Times
From Saturday 20th July until Monday 2nd September (including Bank Holiday Monday on 26th August), The MAD Museum will be open every day from 10:00am until 5:30pm. The Museum will be open as usual from Tuesday 3rd September, 10:00am – 5:00pm. This Summer we will be...
New Exhibits coming to MAD
We are currently preparing 3 fantastic new pieces of automata ready for exhibiting. These sculptures were all made by the legendary automata maker, Keith Newstead. We first came to hear about these one-of-a-kind pieces when a private collector contacted us. Over the...
Special Feature – Chris Fossey
The Man Behind All Of MAD's Fantastic ImagesWe first came across Chris in 2013 when he visited our museum as part of a photography group (way back when we were on Sheep Street). His attention to detail and use of bright colours really appealed to us. So much so that...
Father’s Day Discounts 2019
On Sunday 16th June 2019 we will be offering extra big discounts. Get 20% off Dad’s ticket or 10% off a family ticket. This discount is only running on Father’s Day. Please either say the following or show this webpage on your phone to a member of staff at MAD’s...
Plan My School Trip’s MAD Feature
Our Education Officer Katie Madley recently carried out a Q&A interview with the well-known booking website Plan My School Trip. Click here to read it -
New Interactive Gear Wall
What are Gears?Gears rotate together to move part of a machine. They are a fundamentally important mechanism in everyday life, you’ll find them in cars, clocks, kitchen mixers, bikes, vacuum cleaners and many other items. Gears are wheels with teeth that slot...
Nominated for Best Family Attraction
The MAD Museum has been nominated in the prestigious Muddy Stilettos Awards as the Best Family Attraction in Warwickshire. Muddy Stilettos is the biggest lifestyle site for urbane, fun-loving women outside London, now in its 7th year, the Muddy Stilettos Award...
CBBC’s All Over The Place – Filming a MAD Feature
In the early hours of Monday 29th April, we opened up our MAD Museum for an extra special reason. After a couple of months of planning, a film crew and 2 presenters from ‘All Over The Place’ came to film a MAD feature. ‘All Over The Place’ is a very popular...