DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition
Gatineau, Quebec
“DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition” celebrates 20 years of animated magic from DreamWorks’ first animated feature, “Antz,” in 1998 to 2016’s “Trolls,” which won a Grammy for its feature song.
The exhibition opened December 8, 2017, at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, and will be on display until April 8. It will open at the Montreal Science Center in May. dates after that are yet to be announced, but the exhibition will continue to tour through mid-2020 with stops likely in Europe, Australia and South America.
Visitors can discover the secrets of digital animation from the people behind “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda.” Exhibits feature more than 400 objects, including a model of Toothless, the Night Fury dragon from “How to Train Your Dragon,” as well as photographs, posters, props, concept drawings, storyboards and original artwork from the DreamWorks archive.
www.historymuseum.ca/dreamworks
Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars and the Power of Costume
St. Petersburg, Florida, and Detroit
The Smithsonian Institution’s “Star Wars and the Power of Costume” exhibit showcases more than 60 original costumes from the first 1977 film through the 2015 “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” The exhibit will be at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, through mid-April before moving to the Detroit Institute of Arts in May, where it will run through September.
Exhibits focus on costume-making, from nightmarish concept sketches of Darth Maul to the construction of the elaborate Padmé Amidala’s dresses. Visitors can see Chewbacca’s yak hair costume, Boba Fett’s bounty-hunting outfit and Luke Skywalker’s cloak and kimono from “Return of the Jedi.” Visitors will learn how actor Anthony Daniels, who played the fussy, brassy C-3PO droid in all seven films, couldn’t sit down while wearing the intricate getup and find out why the late Carrie Fisher hated Princess Leia’s infamous bronze bikini from 1983’s “Return of the Jedi.”
