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.

Support Us

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.

Latest News

Kinetica Museum opens this week

‘Life Forms’, the launch show at Kinetica will open on 6th October. Chico MacMurtrie’s Amorphic Robot Works (pictured) are part of this exciting inaugural exhibition. Make sure you check the…

Arthur Ganson’s Kinetic Sculpture

Arthur Ganson’s new exhibition, ‘Machines and Mechanisms’ can be seen at the McColl Center for the Arts in North Carolina until November 4th 2006.

The Sultan’s Elephant, Calais 28 Sept 2006

One of the highlights of our summer here in London was the visit by the magical French street theatre company Royal De Luxe and their street spectacle The Sultan’s Elephant.…

Cabinet of Curiosities DVD

You can now order your ‘A Cabinet of Curiosities DVD’ at the online shop. They will be dispatched in early November. (Sold out!) The Cabinet of Curiosities is a virtual…

Visit MindFest at Fort Worth, Texas

Some great activities and workshops are on offer at the 6th MindFest at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History this Friday and Saturday – 8-9 Sept. 2006. CMT…

Spooner Talk at Trelowarren

Book a place, (a snip at £5) at Paul Spooner’s forthcoming talk at Trelowarren, Cornwall (12th Sep 2006). You will be thoroughly entertained as Paul discusses his pieces in the…

Kinetica Museum Opens in London

Kinetica, a brand new museum devoted to Kinetic art will open in a fantastic new two storey building in London’s Spitalfields Market in early October 2006. The first museum of…

New Hunkin Telescope Excites Pier Visitors

Tim Hunkin revealed the latest machine for his Under the Pier Show in Southwold, Suffolk, earlier this week. As Hunkin says, “The problem with ordinary seaside telescopes is that they…
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.

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