Cabaret Mechanical Theatre

The Home of Contemporary Automata

We have been entertaining and inspiring visitors & makers with our collection of automata since 1981. Now based in Hastings, UK we have exhibitions all over the world.

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A wide range of mechanical delights. From original handmade automata to kits & books to kick start your own automata making journey.
A boy points at Biodiversity by Paul Spooner. An automata of 20 figures floating and rotating in space

Exhibitions

Our collection of contemporary automata can be seen in museums & galleries around the world as well as at our home in Hastings, UK.
A table filled with cardboard boxes containing cam mechanisms. Women and children are constructing and playing with the pieces.

Making

Explore our resources to learn how to make automata or sign up to one of our workshops.

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We need your help to run our 2026 community engagement projects. As a non profit company all donations go towards our goals to share the magic of automata with our local and global community.

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The human side of Paul Spooner

The human side of Paul Spooner

Simon Tait’s Mews – No.3 If you ask Paul Spooner to fit a project brief don’t expect anything, because whatever you expect isn’t going to happen. What you can be…
Rock My Boat

Rock My Boat

Moooving Sculptures by Johnny White and Amanda Wray. Artists Johnny White (Ride of Life veteran) and Amanda Wray have created a fantastic new exhibition currently at Scarborough Art Gallery The…
I call it sciretance

I call it sciretance

Simon Tait’s Mews – No.2 Here’s an interesting work of art to mews upon. It’s a sculpture by the eminent French artist Jean Tinguely and he called it Meta-Matic. It…
Bernie Lubell in the UK

Bernie Lubell in the UK

If you are in the UK this summer it is worth visiting San Francisco based artist Bernie Lubell’s ‘A Theory of Entanglement’ exhibition which opened at FACT, Liverpool, last month.…
Mechanics Alive!! in Glasgow

Mechanics Alive!! in Glasgow

Mechanics Alive!! is now open at the Scotland Street School Museum in Glasgow. The exhibition is an essential on your itinerary if you are in Scotland over the summer. The…
At Home with Automata

At Home with Automata

We had a chat about collecting contemporary automata with TV personality and interior designer, Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen today.
Fi Henshall

Fi Henshall

We are delighted to offer some pieces from a new artist, Fi Henshall, a sculpture graduate from Falmouth College of Arts in Cornwall. Fi was inspired by childhood visits to…
Our mission is to promote engineering and creativity through workshops, exhibitions and automata kits.

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