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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 tape 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

Output

September 2019 - March 2020

This exhibition looks at the common manufacturing processes used in the production of plastics products with each case comparing tooling costs, production volume, the types of materials commonly used, and the tell-tale marks left behind during manufacture.

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

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AIBDC 008014 cruet

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 148 cruet

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 155 cruet

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: Jak Hansford

4 Dec 2019

I was really pleased to get the chance to write a proposal for the Student Creative project with MoDiP. As an Undergraduate at the Arts University Bournemouth, I was able to familiarise myself with MoDiP and the collection it houses. Using the fantastic objects on offer, I was inspired to kick start projects, essays and sketchbook work.Now studying on the MA Fine Art course at AUB, I have the…

Playtime

27 Nov 2019

We all need permission to play sometimes…permission to down tools, permission to stop worrying about deadlines and permission to well, just have a bit of (very sociable) fun. That was partly the idea behind Playtime, but we also saw it as a way of welcoming students into our wonderful museum space - the gateway to the amazing research resource that is MoDiP.The first session saw students coming…

Le Mans

20 Nov 2019

The cinema release of the film Le Mans 66 starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale this week transported me back to June this year when I experienced the historical race for the first time.  The 24hours of Le Mans is a motor race not just of speed but of endurance too.  The fastest car is not guaranteed the win if it is not reliable enough to keep going for the whole 24hours.  …

Current & Past Exhibitions

Being me: plastics and the body

20 Mar 2020 - 4 Sep 2020

This exhibition will explore the ways in which plastics help us to be ourselves; by changing our shape, keeping us safe, aiding us when our bodies struggle, and by keeping us alive.

Output

11 Sep 2019 - 13 Mar 2020

Renowned industrial designer, A H ‘Woody’ Woodfull, stated in 1959 that ‘the designer must have a wide range of working knowledge of industrial processes of all kinds.’ By understanding manufacturing processes, designers can make the best decisions for their application.  They must ask themselves key questions: What material do I want to use? How many products do I want to make?  How much do I…

Revolution: environmentally conscious design in plastics

15 Mar 2019 - 6 Sep 2019

In 2018 Collins dictionary declared ‘single-use’ as the word of the year.  They define the term as describing items whose unchecked proliferation are blamed for damaging the environment:   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, and bags have led to a…

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