Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder

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Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder
Features:	Props and costumes alongside information on the show's connections with science
Location:	The World Museum, Liverpool
Opened:	27 May 2022
Closed:	30 October 2022

Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder was a Doctor Who exhibition at the World Museum in Liverpool. The exhibition covered various aspects of Doctor Who's history, focussing on the various links to real world science. It featured many screen-used props, costumes and models, along with explanatory text, interactive displays and videos.

Overview

An exhibition covering the links between Doctor Who and science, as well as housing many props, costumes and models from throughout the show's history. It was situated on the second floor of Liverpool's World Museum and also featured a shop selling many different pieces of Doctor Who merchandise.

Notable elements

The exhibition was broken up into a series of relatively large rooms. While given no formal designation by the exhibition, these rooms have been given descriptive names and used to structure the following list of notable elements.

Before the exhibition

• A statue of a Weeping Angel was located in the entrance to the museum.
• A statue of a Dalek was located on the ground floor of the museum.
• The exhibition was on the second floor. A large full-length mural was located on the wall of the corridor connecting the exhibition's entrance to its shop and exit. Among other things, the mural depicted:
  • Sontarans
  • The TARDIS
  • Weeping Angels

File:Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder mural.jpeg

A promotional image of the mural.

Quotes room

After entering the exhibition, visitors would find themselves in a dark hallway with quotes from the Doctor and many famous real world people. These were:

• Arthur C. Clarke
• Stephen Hawking
• Richard Dawkins
• Carl Sagan
• Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin

Throughout the rest of the exhibition, there were further quotes from the following people:

File:Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder Entrance Cyber-Warriors.jpeg

A promotional image showing Cybermen outside of the TARDIS-themed door.

• The Doctor
• Nikola Tesla
• Professor Brian Cox
• E. O. Wilson
• Stephen Hawking

At the end of the hallway, there was a TARDIS-themed door leading into the next area.

Console room

At the centre of the next area was the reconstruction of the original TARDIS control console used for the An Adventure in Space and Time docudrama, marked by an accompanying information panel as "The TARDIS console Mk 1". Exhibits, graphics and information panels were located around the walls of this room. Turning left from the TARDIS door entrance and following the console room round clockwise to the exit, these were:

File:Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder Classic TARDIS console.jpeg

A promotional image showing the console.

• A timeline of console rooms from the post-2005 revival of Doctor Who from a real world perspective.
• A display case containing:
  • The original design sheet for the original console room.
  • Designs for the Thirteenth Doctor's console room.
• A timeline showcasing people who made significant contribution to the show regarding science. This included the following people:
  • Verity Lambert and Sydney Newman
  • Dr Kit Pedler
  • Douglas Adams
  • Christopher H. Bidmead
• A graphic showcasing all 13 "main" Doctors, along with the War Doctor and Fugitive Doctor.
  • Interestingly, while the War Doctor was positioned between the Eighth and Ninth Doctors, the Fugitive Doctor was positioned after the Thirteenth Doctor.
• An introductory video featuring Mark Gatiss.
• A display case showcasing the First Doctor costume used by David Bradley.
• A video display the various Time Vortex effects used by the show's post-2005 revival.

Technology room

The next room focussed primarily on the technology exhibited by the show, both realistic and otherwise. It was comprised of information panels, props, models and videos. To aid in listing these elements, they have been split up by the wall they were on, relative to when you first enter the area.

Left wall

• An information panel on the TARDIS's Dimensional transcendentalism.
• A video showcasing various companions reactions to this effect/
• An information panel on the science behind time travel.
• Models of a hypercube and of a wormhole connecting 2 regions of spacetime.
• A video explaining the science behind time travel.
• An information panel with information on the science behind teleportation.
• A display case containing a vortex manipulator and a teleporation bracelet from The Witch's Familiar.
• The original costume sketches for the Thijarians.
• The Crooked Man prop from Hide.
  • As well as offering information on this prop and the episode it's from, this prop's accompanying information panel also provided information on pocket universes elsewhere in Doctor Who, as well as some science relating to the idea.

Right wall

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Connecting room: sound

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Space room

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more to be added

Promotion

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Notes

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Gallery

• Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder Artwork.jpeg

  Concept art for the exhibition.

• Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder mural being painted by Paul Curtis.jpeg

  The mural being painted by Paul Curtis.

• Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder mural2.jpeg

  The TARDIS and Weeping Angels on the mural.

External links

• Liverpool's World Museum
• Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder on doctorwhoscience.com
• New Scientist behind-the-scenes sneak peek with Clare Wilson
• Radio Times review