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Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Britain's first illustration museum, in a converted Victorian waterworks

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Britain’s first museum devoted entirely to illustration has opened in London, named for Quentin Blake — the pen behind Roald Dahl’s Matilda and the BFG — and set inside the New River Head, a restored Victorian waterworks near Islington. Beyond a permanent home for Blake’s own work, it’s built as a working centre for the whole art form, with changing exhibitions and studios rather than a single-artist shrine. For anyone who grew up inside those scratchy, generous ink lines, it’s a specific reason to cross London.

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