To mark 175 years since the Great Exhibition of 1851, researcher and digital designer Keith Wood is bringing his VR simulation of the event to the Goethe-Institut in London. Drop in to the library on the first floor and visit the 1851 exhibition in person!

Explore in and around the building, which includes over 400 models and illustrations of many of the exhibits, and fixtures & fittings, including:

• 250 pieces of sculpture (this includes the majority of the pieces in the main avenues of building, many of which are recreations of now lost pieces)
• 10 steam locomotives (& 1 horse powered locomotive!)
• 14 pairs of boots & shoes by Dowie, Hefford, Hoby, Walker (today in the Northampton Museum)
• All surviving Hancock Taxidermy exhibits (today in the Great North Museum: Hancock)
• Church organs by Ducroquet, Gray & Davison, Schulze, Willis
• Stained/painted glass by Bertini, Gibbs, Kellner, Pugin
• 3 model boats made at Bombay Dockyard (today in the collection of the Science Museum Group)
• Gulliver in Lilliput by Fleischmann (today in the German Toy Museum)
• Comic Electric Telegraph (today in Bristol 1904 Arts Club)
• Wax model of a dissected head by Towne (today in the Gordon Museum of Pathology)
• The first public pay flushing toilets by George Jennings

and many more!

Visitor Information
This is a drop-in event. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Please note:
1. The simulation contains nudity in models of paintings and sculptures which is similar to what would typically be seen in a museum or art gallery
2. one of the exhibits at the exhibition was a wax model of a dissected head.

Keith has been working on this simulation for three years. Further information on the project can be found here: https://www.hookedwit.uk/