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<\/a><\/p>\nOver this three-decade career, the filmmaker has carved out a popular niche in stylistically rich movies that have adoring fans swooning over the appearance as much as they do the plotlines.<\/p>\n
Now, from Anderson\u2019s own archive, his uniquely quaint world has come to London.<\/p>\n
As an exhibition, it\u2019s going to appeal to the fans, and like all person themed exhibitions, if you\u2019re not a fan it might be a tad hard to know what you\u2019re looking at.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, it\u2019s the Design Museum, so this is as much a retrospective of the movies as it is a look at the design process. So expect lots of sketches and scale models, and later in the exhibition, claymation characters.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s largely chronological in its layout, from his early experiments to his silent films as a teenager to Hollywood and later to his move into animation.<\/p>\n
A major highlight is the monumental 3-metre-wide candy-pink model of the Grand Budapest Hotel, which is one of the largest and most recognisable items in the exhibition.<\/p>\n Other highlights include the vending machines from Asteroid City, the fur coat, behind a protective glass case, worn by Gwyneth Paltrow in The Royal Tenenbaums, and the original stop-motion puppets from the Fantastic Mr Fox and Isle of Dogs.<\/p>\n Also on display is Boy with Apple, the \u2018priceless Renaissance portrait\u2019 that is unexpectedly inherited by Ralph Fiennes\u2019 character Gustave H in The Grand Budapest Hotel. In reality, the painting is a contemporary work by British artist Michael Taylor, commissioned by Wes Anderson specifically for the film.<\/p>\n As an exhibition, if you love Wes Anderson (platonically of course), then this is a fans delight of a display. For everyone else, it might be as good a gateway drug<\/a> into his movies as any could be.<\/p>\n The exhibition, Wes Anderson: The Archives<\/a>, is at the Design Museum<\/a> until the end of July 2026.<\/p>\n Standard Ticket: \u00a324<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nChildren (5-12): \u00a312
\nUnder 6: Free
\nConcessions \/ Students: \u00a318
\nNational Art Pass : \u00a312<\/p>\n