Worlds Away! – Wild Inventions at Osborne
An Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books exhibit from June 17 to September 4, 2010.
Venture into the unknown with an exhibit of children’s books and illustrations featuring weird science, exploration, space travel and off-beat inventions.
Find our weird and wonderful inventions at Osborne. Explore with adventurers and guides such as:
- Modern Wonder, outstanding periodical of invention for young readers (1930s)
- Tom Swift, boy inventor
- Jules Verne, who described 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Voyages from the Earth to the Moon
- Buck Rogers, hero of the 25th century
On the lighter side, look for trouble when Professor Branestawm sets out to solve a problem...