Discover the Incredible World of Innovation
A New Venue!
Picture credit: Justin Sutcliffe
The "Wallace and Gromit Present a World of Cracking Ideas exhibition" is on the move to the Glasgow Science Centre, Scotland.
Wallace & Gromit present A World of Cracking Ideas
The exhibition, sponsored by the Intellectual Property Office, presented by Aardman Animatons and produced by SGA opens on Friday 2 April 2010 and will be in residence until 30 November 2010. As before Wallace and Gromit will be presenting a host of innovations that have contributed to our everyday lives.
The exhibition aims to inspire and encourage visitors to become innovative and creative in their own lives by taking inspiration from other well known innovators who have used their own experiences to create the life changing products and brands featured in the exhibition.
Visitors will interact with all kinds of clever and quirky exhibits as they are taken on a tour of 62 West Wallaby Street, Wallace and Gromit’s famous terraced home. Exhibits include innovative and patented objects from the world around us as well as some of Wallace and Gromit's mind boggling creations like the Tellyscope II, Shopper 13 and the Blend-o-Matic.
Where will you do your best thinking?
From the Kitchen to the Garden Shed, each room will accommodate a different aspect of the thinking process behind ideas. Innovators of all ages will also learn how to protect their intellectual property, so that ideas deliver value to their creators as well as the wider world.
Have a creative brainwave!
Picture credit: Justin Sutcliffe
Creativity plays a huge part in every aspect of our daily lives. The Intellectual Property Office want to inspire visitors to contribute their own brainwaves, coming up with brand new ideas or even developing existing ones by adding a new twist.
‘Ideas Stations’ will be located in the Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, Bathroom, Workshop and Garden of the house, so visitors can jot down their own cracking ideas. There will be walls to colour on and the opportunity to solve a plasticine eco conundrum! Visitors’ ideas will also be used to power the awesome, 3-metre high Thinking Cap contraption - just one of the many thought provoking Wallace and Gromit inventions at the exhibition which visitors will be invited to try out for themselves.
Get your thinking caps on!
In the World of Cracking Ideas anything is possible! In amongst all the fun, Wallace and Gromit will be helping the Intellectual Property Office to spell out their message: What exactly is copyright? What legal rights does a design have? How can a patent protect an idea? How do you tell a registered trade mark from a copycat version?
All will be revealed at the Glasgow Science Centre.
