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...
May Bank Holiday Opening Times 2019
May Bank Holidays On both Monday 6th May and Monday 27th May, The MAD Museum will be open from 10:00am until 5:30pm. Last entry at 4:15pm. May Half Term Opening Times From Saturday 25th May until Sunday 2nd June 2019, we will be open every day from 10:00am...
Stratford Festival of Motoring
Sunday 5th and Bank Holiday Monday 6th May. Over this 2-day festival, there will be an array of fantastic cars and activities for all ages. Stratford will be transformed into an engine-enthusiasts haven. The 2019 Festival of Motoring on May Bank Holiday...
New Construction Kits – Learn about Linkages
Try our NEW Linkages construction kits – brought to you by Timberkits. Timberkits supply our MAD Museum with many different automata building kits (find out more here) but they have recently expanded on their educational range. For some time now we have been offering...
Journalist’s Review of MAD
Recently a journalist called Darren Lawson who runs the blog www.daysoutnow.co.uk came to our MAD Museum with this family. He has started a challenge this year called "Around the UK in 80 Days out" and plans to visit and review the best attractions in the country....
Changing to Summer Opening Times
From Monday 1st April 2019 It is that time of the year again when we switch to our extended opening times. From Monday 1st April until Monday 30th September 2019, The MAD Museum will be open – Monday to Friday – 10:00am until 5:00pm Saturday, Sunday, Bank...
Press Release from Lukas van de Vrande
Dutch artist brings art to Stratford The Dutch artist Lukas van de Vrande brought a piece of art he made to the MAD Museum in Stratford upon Avon. His machine ‘Two Million Years’ is a combination of art & science. Stripes move up and down, back and forth, and when...
Celebrating MAD’s 7th Birthday!
Hip hip hooray! On Saturday 23rd March 2019, our MAD Museum turns 7! Since unbolting our doors in 2012, we’ve relocated to a bigger and better site, exhibited over 300 different weird and wonderful machines and welcomed in over 600,000 visitors. The MAD Museum is a...