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World's First James Bond Museum to Open in UK Saturday

by Jarrett Martineau | April 2, 2009 at 02:06 pm

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Surely if there were any dashing, super-spy deserving of their own museum it would be the infamous agent 007.

With that spirit in mind, the world's first James Bond museum is set to open this Saturday in Cumbria, England.

The Bond Museum will include favourite spy vehicles, including a tank, from the films — as well as the original golden gun from The Man With the Golden Gun.

What other Bond-ified artifacts deserve to be enshrined in these hallowed halls? Post your thoughts below.

Housed in a former supermarket in Cumbria, The Bond Museum was established by Peter Nelson, a 48-year-old Bond prop collector and auto museum curator.

The museum's initial collection will include the convertible Triumph Stag from Diamonds Are Forever, the Lotus Esprit Turbo (right) from The Spy Who Love Me (not the submarine version), a Russian T55 battle tank from GoldenEye and the original Colibri gun from The Man With the Golden Gun.

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Jordan Yerman

at 14:09 on April 2nd, 2009

First of all, they need the submarine version. Period.

Also I'd add Irma Bunt's stiletto-shoe and Odd Job's hat.

jazzyzazzy

at 15:24 on April 2nd, 2009

Pussy Galore,ha ha was she not a charachter !

Roy C

at 17:31 on April 2nd, 2009

I am old enough that I got to read the books as they came out. Always better than the films.

Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore was one-half of one of the best male-female "tussles" in cinema history.

In the book, Goldfinger, he actually does plan to rob Fort Knox. There is no atom bomb.

Paschen

at 20:07 on April 2nd, 2009

I would not have put money into it, but it is an icon and long lived success in movie genre even though sexist and against all modern values it has known great success and support from both sexes and this should be a wake up call to all that humanity is still stuck and ruled by the small brain and not as we like to make our self's believe by reason and objectivity.

Roy C

at 22:47 on April 2nd, 2009

Paschen, James Bond is the modern world's version of the Sacred King who would run amok. That ancient Sacred King was called Hercules. Originally a son of Hera, by his name.

The world is nature and an animal spirit before it become human and only becomes human when it retains the animal spirit and we take that animal spirit with us onto the next level.