It may be small,but this Warwickshire museum celebrates the weird and wacky world of design and invention, where the only limit is your imagination
In a nutshell
crazy stands for Mechanical Art and Design, and there couldn’t be a more appropriate acronym for this residence. It’s a collection of brilliant-but-bonkers machines made by brilliant-but-bonkers people from around the world – or “kinetic artists” as they call themselves. There’s everything from ingenious marble runs to mechanised flipbooks and a musical typewriter. Our favourite was the “kitchenator”,a golfball run made entirely out of kitchen utensils.
Fun fact
One of the exhibits was created by Rowland Emett, the man who designed the eccentric inventions in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Remember the breakfast machine, and the hair-cutting bicycle?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com