AT THE 1951 Festival of Britain, Stroud author Laurie Lee held the position of 'Curator of Eccentricities'.
This interesting sounding job entailed collecting inventors' oddities for a display called Eccentrics' Corner, which went on to form part of the festival exhibition at London's South Bank.
Laurie's collection included items such as motorcycle goggles with wiper blades and a mandolin made from matchsticks.
As part of this year's Laurie Lee centenary celebrations, the Museum in the Park has invited a group of artists to re-present a new collection of eccentricities.
Poet Philip Rush, one of the show's co-ordinators, said: "Laurie Lee's sense of humour and pleasure at the ridiculous are perhaps as important a part of his heritage as his love of the countryside and of a finely phrased sentence. This exhibition aims to tread in Laurie Lee's footsteps and put on display a wide range of amusing and thought-provoking eccentricities from the collections of local artists."
The exhibition will be open on Saturday and Sunday, from 11am to 5pm.
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