The Greatest Steampunk Exhibition June 4th - August 29th
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- Published on Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:15
The Greatest Steampunk Exhibition: June 4th - August 29th 2011
The largest exhibition of Steampunk art, craft and engineering in the UK will open on Saturday 4th June at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum in West London. The exhibition will contain over one hundred Steampunk exhibits from all over the world, ranging from paintings and artworks through costumes and fabrics to machines and engines, together with sound installations and short films. Many of the exhibits have been specially created for the exhibition and have never been seen before.
During the course of the exhibition, which will run for three months until Monday 29th August, new exhibits will be introduced, and a competition will be run for the best exhibit in various classes. There will be a Steampunk concert, fashion show, and science event. Visitors to the exhibition will also be able to enjoy all the other attractions of the Kew Bridge Steam Museum, including the giant Victorian pumping engines which will be operating most weekends. These will all be complemented by a range of Steampunk books and other products which will be available in the Museum shop during the exhibition.
The exhibition, which is organised jointly by the Kew Bridge Engines Trust and the Victorian Steampunk Society, follows last year’s very successful show at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford but is on a much larger scale.
After the show closes at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum many of the exhibits will be going on show in Glasgow and Lincoln, but Kew Bridge is the only place where the whole show can be seen together.