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The only museum of W. Heath Robinson, the man whose name means a ridiculous machine, in the park of the village where he drew them.
Also in Literary London.
William Heath Robinson gave the language a phrase: a Heath Robinson contraption is any device of string, pulleys and improbable levers that does a small job with enormous effort, and he drew hundreds of them, from machines for testing artificial teeth to the home-made motor car. He lived in Pinner from 1908 to 1918, at the height of it, and the trust that holds his work built the museum here in the memorial park, the first purpose-built museum in London for forty years, opened by Michael Rosen on 15 October 2016. One gallery follows his career, and it is the illustration that surprises: the editions of Kipling, Shakespeare and the Arabian Nights he drew before the war, in a line as delicate as the cartoons are absurd, alongside the wartime drawings that made him famous and the advertisements that paid the bills. The second gallery changes every few months.
Step-free access
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday | 11:00 – 16:00 |
| Friday | 11:00 – 16:00 |
| Saturday | 11:00 – 16:00 |
| Sunday | 11:00 – 16:00 |
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