Premier Inn Launch
Premier Inn are opening a brand new hotel in Stratford-Upon-Avon next month, and to celebrate they will be holding an official launch on the evening of March 5th. The famous hotel chain have kindly invited The MAD Museum to display one of its Kinetic Art works at the...
The Chevy is almost back!
A few weeks ago, I excitedly announced that we had purchased a 1939 Chevrolet Pick-up truck to use as the official vehicle for the MAD Museum. As yet however, The MAD team haven't had a chance to take the new wheels out on the road, as it has been undergoing extensive...
Paint job
The upper floor of the museum has been given a proper makeover, with the new colours totally transforming the look of the room. Downstairs to follow shortly: ...
Back to London
We were back in London on Tuesday to take in The Science Museum and Ripley's Believe It or Not. We enjoyed them both immensely, although perhaps we got slightly carried away in The Science Museum gift shop.... ...
Men at Work
With The MAD Museum opening in a matter of weeks, we've been getting our hands dirty over in Stratford in order to get the building ready for the public. Here are some recent photos: Painting the staff room... Building plinths galore...
Kinetica Exhibition 2012
We are delighted to announce that The MAD Museum will be at the Kinetica Art Fair in London next month. We have just secured a place at the exhibition, which runs from 9th - 12th February 2012. We look forward to meeting lots of kinetic artists and seeing their...
Automata Exhibition
We visited the Allen Gallery in Alton, Hampshire on Tuesday, to see some examples of high quality automata. The exhibition was part of the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre's touring exhibition. Many of the works featured are by English creator Paul Spooner, and there are...
Willi Reiche
German kinetic artist Willi Reiche will kindly be loaning us some of his work, which will be on display in the museum when it opens next year. Check out his machines that will be featured: Kick or Kiss Les Gammas...
New section on website
Shortly we will be introducing a new section on the website, where we feature work that kinetic artists have for sale. This will be an entirely free service, we just thought it would be a nice feature to have on the site. We also want to keep the momentum going! Any...
Out and About
On December 6th, we all headed to London to hook up with some kinetic artists. The traffic was a nightmare so it was slow progress but we had a great time with guys such as Sam Zealey, Theo Kaccoufa and Bill Urmenyi. A big thank you to all who took the time to see us....