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This 120-year history of consumerism, culture, design, domestic life, fashion, folly and fate, presented as a magnificently cluttered time tunnel of cartons and bottles, toys and advertising displays, is a small part of the collection amassed by Robert Opie - son of the celebrated collectors of children's lore and literature Ioana and Peter Opie - since the day in 1963 when the 16-year-old arrived home with a Munchies wrapper and declared his intention never to throw away anything ever again.
The Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising spans a 120-year period in the history of consumerism, culture, design, domestic life, fashion,...
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I love this museum, and I should appear to anyone who lived in the western world during the last 100 year. I am myself a collector of tins from Huntley and Palmers, I have many hundreds. But how one man can bring together a collection of advertising as big is this, I cant understand, I admire him. If its raining in London, if its sunny in London - visit this museum, you are going to stay for hours,. Bengt Klingvall, Stockholm
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