September Newsletter
The Inventions of Heath Robinson
Saturday 26th September - Sunday 22nd November 2015 The MAD (Mechanical Art & Design) Museum announces its first major temporary exhibition with works by Heath Robinson (1872–1944), a prolific cartoonist and illustrator best known for his humorous drawings of...
Summer Design Competition
Saturday 18th July until Monday 7th September 2015 Early this year The MAD Museum installed MAD Marbles which is essentially a giant interactive wall for visitors to build their own rolling ball creations on. Using inspiration from around the museum, the wall...
June Newsletter
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The Winner of MAD’s Easter Pop-up Card Competition
From Saturday 28th March until Monday 13th April 2015, The MAD Museum ran a pop-up card competition. The brief was simple, think outside the box to create a crazy gift card, the winning card maker would receive ultimate glory! (oh and a goodie bag full of MAD treats)...
New exhibits
New kinetic artwork rolls in to MAD... A massive thank you to rolling ball artists Robert Moore (UK) and Jelle Bakker (NL) for sending their latest wonderful creations to The MAD Museum. Both have already previously contributed to MAD's display collection and it is a...
Easter at The MAD Museum
3 Reasons to visit The MAD Museum this Easter 1. Several new exhibits to play with. 2.We recently installed a giant make-your-own rolling ball wall. Invent your own course out of all sorts of weird and wonderful components. MAD provides the start and finish lines and...
MAD Feature
Claire Potter, a freelance writer for the Guardian recently visited our MAD Museum. Click here to read her piece (and to see Richard's reply at the bottom) ...
February Half Term
We would just like to say a big thank you to everyone who visited our MAD Museum over February half term. We received record visitor figures and loads of lovely feedback. Thank you very much for keeping us going! ...
MAD interview on BBC Cov & Warks
Last Thursday, in February Half Term our museum's Founder Richard was interviewed by Trish Adudu on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire radio. Listen to it here Richard's 6 minute interview is 1hr 13mins 18secs in.