Permanent Exhibition
Our permanent Heath Robinson exhibition combines original artwork with books, photographs, film & digital media to tell the full story of Heath Robinson’s artistic career.
Come and celebrate Summer at the Heath Robinson Museum with our vibrant, colourful and fun new exhibition for all the family.
From hats made from tin cans, bags made from ring-pulls and a cheese platter made from a flattened bottle, to woven rolled newspaper baskets and boxes, scoops made from food cans and ear-rings from bottle tops…every object in the exhibition used to be something else. Through ingenuity, imagination and innovation these junk materials have been given a new lease of life.
Inspiring this new exhibition—In 1935 William Heath Robinson created a series of drawings that he called “Rejuvenated Junk”, showing new uses for unwanted objects. Ten of these were used to illustrate an article called “At Home with Heath Robinson”, written by KRG Browne for The Strand Magazine.
Our exhibition features several of these original drawings together with a stunning collection of recycled and upcycled artefacts from 33 countries around the world, provided by knowtrash.
The “Rejuvenated Junk” exhibition is a collaboration between Heath Robinson Museum and knowtrash. These highly-original and creative artefacts from knowtrash celebrate the talents of resourceful upcyclers from diverse communities all around the world. The makers retrieve mass-produced, everyday objects that have been thrown away – including newspaper, metal cans, glass bottles and plastic packaging – and transform them into useful and beautiful objects.
Neil Thomson from knowtrash and Ann Kopka, curator of the new exhibition, say “We hope our fabulous exhibition will help visitors reconsider the value of the things we throw away, inspiring everyone to discover ways to turn our trash into treasure.”
Our permanent Heath Robinson exhibition combines original artwork with books, photographs, film & digital media to tell the full story of Heath Robinson’s artistic career.
The exhibition highlights the interplay between writer and illustrator. Michael Rosen’s children’s writing has delighted generations – and now a landmark exhibition journeys through his life and career via a selection of original illustrations from his books.
Sidney Sime was a painter, illustrator and caricaturist. William Heath Robinson acknowledged him as an influence in My Line of Life.
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