UK Leisure Attractions - James Bond Exhibition

We made the mistake of using the Science Museum restaurant which was overpriced, mediocre food and a long wait for it.  The guy left is our friend Bob.

We were each issued with a James Bond secret agent card to 'gain access to the interactive terminals'.  Here we are activating it at MI6!  Oo-er!

Despite the timed ticket for the James Bond exhibition we had to give up waiting at the interactive terminals and moved on into the main part.  Yes, the James Bond exhibition sure was popular.

Mike fancied himself as an secret agent and here he's on the red phone planning some highly sensitive top secret mission no doubt!  Well, it is in M's office!  Well, M's office in the Science Museum!

Mike likes gadgets and so he tried his hand at using some of James Bond's ones.  Don't press that butto... Oh, too late!  Relevant websites to our visits are on our UK tourist links page.

Further on in the exhibition we came across this fearsome crocodile, no doubt the one James Bond fought with on one of his many dangerous missions!  Can't remember what film it was now.

Watch out, he'll have your hand off!  Hang on, didn't that crock just blink his eye?!?

Some of the models used in past James Bond films, including that amphibious Lotus.

Further round the James Bond exhibition we viewed many interesting static pictures and exhibits.

Secret agent Belinda took a photo of Bond's passport - let's hope the authorities weren't watching!

Hmmm, the photo of Bond's passport didn't come out too bad considering.  Probably couldn't make a forgery from it though.

There were lots of buttons to press in the top secret underground control room, a feature of many Bond films.  This set off a chorus of...

...noisy klaxons and a multitude of flashing coloured lights which played havoc with this shot of the complex looking control panels.  So on to see...

...James Bond's Aston Martin as used in 'Goldfinger'.  We saw the same Bond vehicles at the Bond display at Beaulieu Motor Museum a few years back.

Ironical really, the sign here said not to touch the exhibits as they're fragile!  Huh? fragile? - we don't think M informed Bond, the way he treated his equipment!  Now, where's the button for the machine guns, revolving number plates and ejector seat?

There were a fair few Bond vehicles at the Science Museum exhibition, including this hovercraft used in that James Bond film, er, you know the one, the one with the gorgeous girl in it.  This part was made up like a film set with lights, camera.. and action.

Here's a look down the row of some of the amazing film props at the James Bond exhibition before we headed out via the inevitable souvenir and gift shop.

Well, we enjoyed the James Bond exhibition at the Science Museum which was sufficiently different to the one at Beaulieu we visited a few years back.