Set To Stun @ Gunnersbury Park Museum

I first heard about this small exhibition whilst it was still in the planning stages. Last year I attended a VFX talk by Mike Tucker at Gunnersbury Park Museum, where the museum curator spoke about it.

West London is the home of the British film and TV industry, and this is a local history museum, so there has been a Voc mask and Cybermen photo on permanent display, alongside Marvin the Paranoid Android from Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. We also have displays reflecting the nearby Ealing Studios.

The museum is situated in a large Georgian house in the middle of the park. On entering the main part of the building, past the reception area, we see a Dalek - of the cream and gold variety seen in Remembrance of the Daleks.

Its location work was in West London.

When it comes to exhibitions, these are actually quite rare. I've had a look though my Experience photos and this type of Dalek wasn't seen in Cardiff (though Davros and the Special Weapons Dalek from the same story were).

Remaining on the ground floor, towards the back of the house, is a room devoted to toys and games. This contained Tucker's model which recreated the Dalek production line seen in Power of the Daleks - as seen as an extra on the Special Edition Blu-ray.

Moving upstairs, one of the rooms is now given over for a small exhibit of props, models, merchandise - and an original Moonbase Cyberman costume. Also present are a moon buggy from Moonbase 3 and one of the original models from The Tripods.

The Doctor Who material includes a cast of Terry Molloy and one of his Davros masks, a pair of TARDISes - a large one from Day of the Doctor and a smaller one from 1993's notorious Dimensions in Time.

There are a number of small props like guns, and on one wall are Ian Scoones' storyboards for The Invisible Enemy.

The Cyberman is rather badly placed, stuck in a corner behind glass, but well enough lit. It is an original screen-used costume from The Moonbase, whose filming took place at Ealing.

All that's just the museum proper. Next to the reception area is another room dedicated to the exhibition, and this one has been specially laid out by designer Jeremy Bear (The Mutants, The Seeds of Doom).

He's best known for popularising the triangular plastic wall panels, introduced in his first story and seen in many more thereafter, as well as numerous episodes of Blake's 7.

They feature here, framing a full Voc robot costume from The Robots of Death.

There's a video of Bear on a loop, and some of his design sketches adorn the walls. The room also features the Starbug from Red Dwarf and a Stormtrooper helmet from the Star Wars franchise.

Not a huge exhibition by any means, but certainly quality rather than quantity and worth catching if you're in London over the next couple of weeks.