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Aardman’s Bristol anniversary exhibition surfaces studio-origin and craft material
Paragraph 1: The Guardian reports that Cracking Exhibition Gromit: 50 Years of Aardman in Bristol opened at M Shed on June 20 and runs to September 13, 2026, positioning Aardman’s fiftieth-anniversary year through Bristol rather than only through the Wallace and Gromit brand. The coverage says the show traces the studio from Morph on Take Hart through Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run, and includes production objects such as original puppets, sets, local Bristol references, and a Chicken Run flying machine rescued from the 2005 fire.
Paragraph 2: For SMDB, this is a source lead because public exhibitions often contain object labels, dates, credit lines, and studio-history facts that do not appear in release listings. It should be treated as a research pointer for Aardman’s studio page and for physical-production history, not as a new screen work; the lead should be verified against the museum’s own exhibition page or catalogue before any durable facts are moved into core files.
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