INVITATION
The Design Museum invites you to the media preview of
September 22, 2026
LAIKA presents WILDWOOD: The Exhibition
Wednesday 14 October 2026
- Press Preview | Helene and Johannes Huth Gallery and Mezzanine, 11:00 – 13:00
- Photocall | Helene and Johannes Huth Gallery and Mezzanine, 9:30 – 10:30 (entry via staff entrance, left of main museum entrance)
RSVP is essential, please email christine@friendsandco.co.uk and gabi@friendsandco.co.uk
Interviews:
LAIKA’s filmmakers behind Wildwood and the curator of the exhibition will be available for interview during the media view, subject to availability. If you would like to arrange an interview, please include the request in your RSVP.
Location:
the Design Museum, 224 – 238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG
The exhibition is split across two levels in the museum, starting with a free display on our mezzanine, and the full exhibition in the Helene and Johannes Huth Gallery located on Level 2 of the museum.
About LAIKA presents WILDWOOD: The Exhibition
LAIKA presents WILDWOOD: The Exhibition is a new exhibition made in collaboration with Portland based stop-motion animation studio LAIKA, exploring the design and making of their forthcoming film Wildwood.
Opening on 15 October 2026, the exhibition will coincide with the international release of LAIKA’s latest stop motion adventure, Wildwood, directed by Travis Knight, offering visitors a rare opportunity to discover the film’s creative journey as it arrives on screen. After 20 years of masterminding animated cinematic classics, including the likes of Coraline (2009) and Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), the film encompasses two decades of the studio’s groundbreaking approach to stop-motion filmmaking.
The exhibition will offer visitors a behind-the-scenes look at the creative and technical processes involved in building a stop-motion world. It brings together original creative material, production objects, costumes, film-making tools, audiovisual content and interactive installations that reveal the work of the visual development artists, model makers, scenic painters, and more.
Focusing on Wildwood, the exhibition will trace the development of the film from early ideas and visual research through to character and environmental design, costume, puppet fabrication, rapid prototyping, miniature set construction, animation and cinematography.
Wildwood will be released by Black Bear in UK and Irish cinemas on October 23.
