Daniel Craig's blood-stained shirt from Casino Royale (2006). Casino Royale © 2006 Danjaq, LLC and United Artists Corporation and Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All rights reserved.
This exhibition celebrates the centenary of the birth of Bond creator Ian Fleming, exploring his wartime career and work as a journalist and travel writer and how, as an author, he drew upon his experiences to create the iconic secret agent and his adversaries. The show includes Fleming's desk and chair from his Jamaican home, Goldeneye, where he wrote all of the Bond novels, as well as props and gadgets from many of the Bond films, including Rosa Klebb's flick-knife shoes featured in 'From Russia with Love' and a working model of the famous Aston Martin DB5.
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This is a small and limited exhibition which could have been done better. It is not really suitable for young children or for kids expecting gadgets and the like. Also bizarrely there is much made of Ian Fleming's precise input to the art of the first covers of the books and yet the gift shop is selling the books with the tackiest page 3 girl type covers ever. What a tribute and I thought the world had moved on. Still the exhibition will no doubt be a much needed money spinner for IWM. The Holocaust exhibition is far better and its rightly free.