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Automata at The Museum

We are back at our local partner museum with a new trail of 6 automata. You can see work by Paul Spooner, Keith Newstead, Peter Markey, Patrick Bond, Wanda Sowry & Carlos Zapata.

11th November 2025 - Spring 2026

Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, John's Place, Bohemia Road, Hastings, TN34 1ET, UK

FREE entry and parking.
Open: Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm
and Sundays, 11am - 4.30pm.

Mechanics Alive!

Jointly presented by the Science Centre Singapore and Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, Mechanics Alive! brings visitors into a world of whimsical automata, brought to life through the clever use of simple machines.

1 Sep 2025 to 28 Feb 2026

Open Tuesday to Sunday 10am - 5pm

Science Centre Singapore, 15 Science Centre Road, Singapore, 609081

The Mechanical Making Space

Visit our headquarters in Hastings, UK.

See automata, purchase kits & merchandise and tinker with mechanisms at our making tables.

Open by appointment on weekdays & selected weekends.

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The Marvellous Mechanical museum

We had our busiest Easter ever. We had our busiest day ever. It's been phenomenally popular.

Kate Clayton

Learning Manager, Royal Cornwall Museum

Permanent Automata Exhibitions

Tim Hunkin's Arcades

London / Southwold UK.

Tim Hunkin’s arcades include some old favourites from CMT’s Covent Garden days – Auto-Frisk, Test Your Nerve and The Chiropodist.

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American Visionary Arts Museum

Baltimore, USA.

45 pieces from the original CMT collection have a permanent home in this wonderful museum

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Discovery World

Wisconsin, USA

CMT have a number of automata on display at Discovery World as part of the exhibition ‘Milwaukee Muscle’. It is packed with devices designed to show visitors how machines work

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Our mission is to promote engineering and creativity through workshops, exhibitions and automata kits.

As a Community Interest Company all profits go toward this valuable work.

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre Learning CIC
Company Number: 14598590

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