Tickets for London’s epic new Wes Anderson exhibition are now on sale

Film lovers, this is one for you: a landmark Wes Anderson exhibition is coming to London later this year, and it looks genuinely quite brilliant. But you’re going to want to act fast: tickets have now gone on sale, and we expect them to sell pretty fast. 

As the director’s first-ever retrospective, ‘Wes Anderson: The Archives’ at the Design Museum will feature more than 600 items from the filmmaker’s back catalogue: costumes, storyboards, sketches, props, motion puppets, handwritten notebooks and the three-metre wide model of The Grand Budapest Hotel which was used to capture the building’s façade for the iconic 2014 film. 

You’ll have the chance to see all sorts of recognisable stuff up close – like vending machines from Asteroid City and the FENDI fur coat worn by Gwyneth Paltrow as Margot Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums. There will also be a rare screening of Anderson’s 1993 Bottle Rocket 14-minute short film that went on to be remade as his first feature.

If you fancy it, tickets are priced from £19.69 and the exhibition opens in November, running through to July next year.

Tim Marlow, Director and CEO of the Design Museum, said: ‘Wes Anderson has created some of the most visually distinctive and emotionally resonant films of the last two decades — from the melancholic charm of The Royal Tenenbaums to the youthful adventurism of Moonrise Kingdom.

‘He’s an utterly compelling creator of cinematic worlds, whose singular vision and attention to detail are underpinned by an acute understanding of design and craftsmanship, which is why the Design Museum is the perfect location for this landmark retrospective.’

The exhibition premiered at la Cinémathèque française in Paris in March this year. For its time in London, 100 new objects will be added and there will also be more attention directed to the ‘complex process of Anderson’s world-building design work and the contributions of his trusted collaborators’, charting his journey from the mid-nineties right up to his 2023 short The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. 

Wes Anderson: The Archives takes place at the Design Museum from November 21 2025 until July 26 2026. Tickets on sale here.

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