Marvelous MelBurton: Tim Burton opens exhibition at ACMI

Tim Burton, delighted crowds with an appearance at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne to officially open Tim Burton: The Exhibition, which will be on display at the centre until 10 October.

The Exhibition showcases over 700 examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, photographs, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, spanning Tim Burton’s 28-year career.

Some of the highlights within the exhibition include: 
 
Edward Scissorhands’ Gothic outfit, one of Burton’s most iconic images.
 
A 3.5 metre high, 2.5 metre wide reproduction of a topiary stag – one of the brilliant sculptures that Edward Scissorhands carves from a suburban hedge.

Original models and puppets from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas will be on display, including a 48cm high version of the hero, Jack Skellington dressed as Santa.
 
A series of 26 Jack Skellington heads are also exhibited, illustrating how the character speaks and changes facial expressions throughout the film.
 
Artefacts from the two Burton Batman films, Batman and Batman Returns, including three of the original Batman masks worn by Michael Keaton,  Michelle Pfeiffer’s tiny nylon Catwoman suit (complete with very naughty clawed gloves) all designed by British-born costume designer Bob Ringwood. click for a full list of events and information

On April 15, 1912, Titanic, the world’s largest ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives and shaking the world’s confidence in the infallibility of modern technology. Almost 100 years later, Melbourne Museum will pay tribute to the tragedy in Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition, which showcases more than 280 artefacts retrieved from the Titanic’s debris field, offering visitors a poignant look at this legendary ship and its passengers and crew.
 
As they enter the exhibition, each visitor is presented with a replica boarding pass of an actual passenger, drawing them back in time to 1912 and the ship’s fateful maiden voyage. Then begins a journey through the life of the Titanic, from construction to life on board, to its ill-fated voyage, tragic sinking and the amazing efforts to recover artefacts. Along the way visitors will marvel at the full-size recreation of the ship’s Grand Staircase, learn countless stories of heroism and humanity and even press their palms against an “iceberg”. 
 
The exhibition answers all those questions you always wanted to know like “Why didn’t Titanic carry enough lifeboats?” to “Were third-class passengers deliberately kept below decks?” Plus discover the Titanic’s Australian stories, and how its sinking strongly resonated with communities here. In the “Memorial Gallery”, guests will be able to take their boarding pass to the memorial wall and discover whether their passenger and travelling companions survived or perished.
            
TICKETS:  till 17 October 2010 
Online www.titanicmelbourne.com Phone 13 11 02