{"id":350394,"date":"2026-01-03T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350394\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:43:07","slug":"museum-steps-in-as-wallace-and-gromit-mania-grips-preston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350394\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum steps in as Wallace and Gromit mania grips Preston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A museum has been forced to restrict access to a Wallace and Gromit exhibition after visitors were left queuing for hours due to a surge in popularity over the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Queues of hundreds have been forming outside the Harris Museum in Preston, Lancashire, for a chance to see original sets and models from the animated stop-motion franchise by Aardman Animations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The recent boom in visitor numbers led the museum to stop anyone joining the  lines from 13:00 GMT each day until the exhibition shuts on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morgan Clossick, who works at the museum, said the unprecedented demand had &#8220;just carried on each day, it&#8217;s brilliant&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A museum has been forced to restrict access to a Wallace and Gromit exhibition after visitors were left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-350394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}