Front view of a radio showing the round body.

Ekco type A22

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Front view of a pair of shoes showing the asymmetric styling.

Melissa + Zaha Hadid

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Front view of a camera showing the folded bellows.

Kodak No. 2 Hawkette camera

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Side view of a Valentine typewriter showing the red body and black keys.

Valentine typewriter

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Top view of a skateboard showing the fish shape.

Minnow Skateboard

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Front view of a record showing side 1.

Shellac recording of Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Band

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Top view of a door stop showing the moulded vein pattern.

Autumn Door Stopper

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Side view of a storage container showing the head and tail.

Roomii

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Side view of a set of blocks showing the moulded letters.

Children's alphabet blocks

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Side view of a bangle showing the thickness of the material.

Trees cuff

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Side view of a basket showing the handles made of tubing.

Packing strapping basket

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Front view of a brooch showing the layered sections.

Lea Stein Attila cat brooch

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Side view of a plate showing the curving edges.

Jelly plate

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Top view of a telephone numbers book showing the dial mechanism.

Telephone numbers book

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Front view of a brooch showing the cast and carved details.

Rose and leaf clip brooch

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Side view of a bowl showing the coloured chips.

Orange Confetti bowl

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Front view of a brooch showing the floral design.

Lucite brooch

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Side view of a pair of Electric goggles showing the clear lenses and red frames.

Electric EG1 MX goggles

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Top view of a pair of salad servers showing the straight-edged handles.

Mottled green salad servers

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Side view of a desk sponge holder showing the semi-circular moulded pattern.

Carvacraft sponge holder

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Front view of a hole punch showing the blue eyes.

Itza hole punch

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Side view of a cup and saucer showing the angular handle.

Orange Beatl cup and saucer

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Front view of a grater showing the arched back of the hedgehog.

Kasimir cheese grater

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Side view of a cable tidy showing the opening for the wire.

Cable Turtle cable tidy

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Side view of an ink well stand showing the moulded detailing.

Ink well stand

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Front view of a pair of folding glasses showing the lenses and arms folded to their minimum size.

Dateman folding glasses

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Front view of a beetle drive showing two of the built beetles.

Beetle Drive

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Front view of a pair of sunglasses showing the round lenses.

Covex lens sunglasses

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Side view of a transparency viewer showing the screens where the light is filtered through.

Sawyer's View-Master

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Side view of a pipe showing the ventilation spaces in the top.

Terrain Hydromax siphonic roof drainage system

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Top view of a snuff box showing the moulded portrait.

Oval Charles I snuff box

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Front view of a medallion showing the moulded imagery.

Pakesine medallion

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Side view of an ear trumpet showing the funnel shaped opening.

Trumpet style hearing aid

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Side view of a bike wheel showing the deep set rim and the spoke pattern.

Reynolds 2010 Assault T

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Front view of a clock showing the spherical shape.

Presta alarm clock

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Side view of a shoe showing the white buckle.

Single Vernon sandal

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Side view of a door stop showing the open shape.

Bergfield and Scwahn door stop

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Front view of a clock showing the large and small hands.

Optic alarm clock

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Museum of Design in Plastics

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Current exhibition

See through

September 2018 - March 2019

Objects are made to be see-through and to be seen through for a number of reasons.  Many plastics materials provide designers and manufacturers with translucency, or even complete transparency, alongside other invaluable properties, to create products that are suited to their specific purpose.

Before your visit to MoDiP please check for any planned closures advertised on the visiting us page.

See through
AIBDC 000482 Glasses

MoDiP collection

The MoDiP collection offers a wide spectrum of objects, from the 19th, 20th & 21st centuries, which illustrate the role of plastics against social and historical contexts.

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PHSL 249 Glasses

PHS collection

The Plastics Historical Society, which was formed in 1986, is an independent society affiliated to the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

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WCHL 366 Glasses

Horners collection

The Worshipful Company of Horners is both an ancient craft guild and a modern City of London Institution promoting the interests of the polymer industry.

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Visiting MoDiP

MoDiP is open to the public and we welcome individual and group visits.

The museum is on the first floor of the Arts University Bournemouth library and can be accessed via a lift.  For more information about coming to the museum for a visit, to do research, or have a group session, click on the link below.

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MoDiP Blog

Student Creative: Fiona McTaggart

16 Jan 2019

I am a part time student in my first year of the MA Illustration course at AUB. I am very pleased to have been given the opportunity to promote the Museum of Design in Plastics. I seek to do this through the exploration of plastics in paediatric cardiac treatment and care, as well as their use in the manufacture of toys. I hope to design and make a small figurine that encapsulates the necessity…

Blowing our own pTrumpet

7 Jan 2019

Whether plastic or otherwise, maybe MoDiP does indeed need to be blowing its own trumpet a bit more than it has done of late – just like Lighthouse, Poole, has been doing during 2018, to celebrate its 40th birthday.pTrumpetAs we launch into 2019, we reflect on how MoDiP has played an important part in inspiring young people to think creatively outside the proverbial plastic box. One great – if we…

#1minuteLamp

2 Jan 2019

A few weeks ago, the MoDiP team visited the London Design Fair.  One of the exhibitions caught our eyeand we asked them to tell us more abut their project.Julia Pulman (Engagement Officer)   #1minuteLamp: a world of discovering materialsInstallation setup. Photo © Marleen Sleeuwits during TodaysArt 2017  #1minuteLamp (1 minute lamp) is an interactive installation that…

Current & Past Exhibitions

Output

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This exhibition will explore the common manufacturing processes used in the production of plastics products.

Revolution: environmentally conscious design in plastics

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In 2018 Collins dictionary declared 'single-use' to be the word of the year.  For them the term describes items whose unchecked proliferation are blamed for damaging the environment and affecting the food chain.   Single-use refers to products – often plastic – that are ‘made to be used once only’ before disposal. Images of plastic adrift in the most distant oceans, such as straws, bottles,…

See through

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Objects are made to be see-through and to be seen through for a number of reasons.  Many plastics materials provide designers and manufacturers with translucency, or even complete transparency, alongside other invaluable properties, to create products that are suited to their specific purpose.   Plastics can provide good optical qualities where the use of glass might be inappropriate due to…