New Website

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The Classic House of Automata website, much loved and rich in content,  has now become a bit of a museum piece.

The new site aims to be less of a cluttered victorian mantelpiece and should be easier to navigate and explore.

Gone is that feeling of ‘falling down a rabbit hole’ and becoming disorientated in a mechanical wonderland  as soon as you click to enter.

Gone is the secretly embedded 18th century mechanical singing bird song composed by Haydn (probably).

On the principle that ‘less is more’ we are going to pack in so much ‘less’ you will wonder how we ever squeezed in ‘more’.

If you still want to explore the classic site it is available here The House of Automata

Many Thanks to Tony Boyce for crafting and maintaining the old site for a decade, and welcome to John Keiller who made the new site.

Your views on the new site are most welcome. Email

AutomataCon – The First

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Over to America soon and looking forward to participating in this event:

AutomataCon is a convention of and for artists, collectors, historians, and enthusiasts of automatons and related kinetic art. It is a two day event being held March 18th and 19th, 2016 at and in conjunction with the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey, home of the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata.

The goal of the convention is to gather people from around the world to share ideas, build relationships, and grow interest in automata new and old. The convention will include a variety of private and public programming, such as social gatherings, museum tours, panel discussions, live demonstrations, workshops, presentations, and an exhibition.

The convention includes the public premier of  “Le Monde des Automates”.
an extremely rare 1928 film, “Le Monde des Automates” [the World of Automata].

Summer 2016 – Small Exhibition of Automata video

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Exhibition of Automata, ‘Mechanical Wonders’ an interactive and exciting event on show until the 24th September 2016 at The Nairn Museum in Scotland.

Nairn Automata Posterwww.nairnmuseum.co.uk

After a busy and successful summer the exhibition has now finished. Many thanks for the great feedback and capacity audiences for all of the talks and demos accompanying the exhibition.

AUTOMATA EXHIBITION VIDEO 

A reference film to capture the exhibits for this small exhibition. The video is at 2X speed for a youtube audience!

If you would like to know more about our Travelling Automata exhibition, contact us and we will do our best to help, we can tailor to suit, we have exhibited in a variety of locations from Art Galleries to Festival Tents, so if conditions are right we can exhibit some crowd pleasing, rare and impressive automata that attract publicity easily.