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Secret things to find when you visit the gallery

Skull in the Roald Dahl children's gallery
Skull in the Roald Dahl children's gallery
© Jan Baldwin

Entrance foyer

  • Hanging objects - Can you put any two objects together to make a longer word?
  • BFG dream bottles - everyone who helped create the Gallery, either with gifts or money is thanked with a bottle.
  • Grandma's head - can you spot Grandma's head from George's Marvellous Medicine?

 

Discovery gallery

  • Volkswagen Beetle car - in the drawer of beetles in the Giant Peach.
  • Walrus skull - in the BFG's suitcase next to the door.
  • Action Man trousers - in drawer of insects to show camouflage.

 

 

Magic mirrors
Magic mirrors

Imagination gallery

  • Twit's upside-down room - It's amazing how many people miss this!
  • Hip replacement - on door to Imagination Gallery at top of stairs. Dahl had both of his hips replaced.
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car - Dahl wrote the screenplay.

For more information call 01296 331441 or email museum@buckscc.gov.uk

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