Wallace & Gromit and ‘Cracking Ideas’
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“The world of Wallace and Gromit has been recreated in a £2m exhibition on the second floor of the Science Museum, complete with mad machines, giant cabbages, villainous rabbits, extensive research library on cheese, improbable collections – one illustrating the evolution of the welly boot – and kitchen cupboards stuffed with the packets and jars,” says The Guardian.
And it’s all “fondly remembered” from W&G creator Nick Park’s own childhood in Preston, Lancashire, says the story.
The exhibition, jointly funded by the Intellectual Property Office, is meant to, “encourage small visitors not just to fuel the thinking cap with brainwaves, or to hurl bean bags to bring the television set within reach of the sofa – avoiding the need for anything as dull as a remote control – but to come up with and patent their own inventions,” it states, adding:
“It includes the inspiring story of Sam Houghton, who saw his father struggling with two brooms to sweep up twigs and leaves, and raced to find a stout rubber band to fasten them together.”
Sam is five, “but his father is a patent attorney: as of last April, Sam’s broom enhancer is registered as British patent number 2438091″.
The Guardian – Wallace and Gromit world recreated in £2m exhibition at Science Museum, March 26, 2009
April, 2009
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