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Wallace and Gromit are hosting a new interactive museum exhibit called “A World of Cracking Ideas”. The inventive journey is a collaboration between Aardman Animation, the London Science Museum, and the (British) Intellectual Property Office. Kids and their parents (and anyone else who pays £8.00 admission) can explore “all kinds of clever and quirky exhibits as they are taken on a tour of 62 West Wallaby Street, Wallace and Gromit’s famous terraced home”. Some of the pair’s own great gizmos will be on display, including the Tellyscope II, the Piella Propellor and the Blend-o-Matic.

For more info, use your patented keyboard to click here and here.

In honor of the exhibit, an article from Mental Floss compiles some interesting (and cheesy) Wallace and Gromit trivia.

And you can view a short Nick Park interview, where he explain why he can’t manage to throw out cardboard tubing.

—Anne D. Bernstein

If you get OVATION on your cable television line-up, this is a special animation-themed weekend. I just watched Hand Behind The Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (again). Here’s what’s left for the rest of the tonight and tomorrow (at least on the East Coast, where I am):

8 PM, 11 PM: Tokyo Godfathers

10 PM, 1 AM: Chuck Amuck

2 AM: Triplets of Belleville

SUNDAY

1 PM: Wallace and Gromit Go To Hollywood (doc about Aardman)

2 PM: The Ub Iwerks Story

4 PM: Tokyo Godfathers

6 PM, 2 AM: Dante’s Inferno (with puppetry by Paul Zaloom)

And then–in case you are in the mood for some creative despair–at 8 and 11 PM they will be playing the documentary Crumb.

(At top, a somewhat loosely-related YouTube clip for PES’ free holiday “Yule Log” screensaver.)

—Anne D. Bernstein