Just in time for the last eight episodes of Breaking Bad, Devon Maloney of Wired magazine writes that New York’s Museum of the Moving Image is hosting an exhibit of props from AMC’s “soon-to-be-ending meth opus.”
The museum is located in off-the-beaten-path Astoria, Queens and houses nearly 130,000 artifacts from both film and television. The Breaking Bad collection is located in the main exhibition, which covers over 15,000 square feet filled with props, costumes and equipment celebrating the century-long history of the moving image.
Cultural anthropologist Barbara Miller, who is the museum’s curator, used Breaking Bad as a sub-exhibit to illustrate the complicated world of chemistry-teacher-turned-master-meth-cook Walter White. Wired was given a private tour of the handpicked assortment, taken from wardrobe boxes, prop rooms, and designer collections.
The exhibit covers how design elements tie in with some of the show’s central themes, such as wardrobe changes as Walt goes deeper down his criminal path; individual wardrobes get darker as they personalities become more conflicted and corrupt. Also on display are many of the bright yellow synthetic-fiber Tyvek suits worn by the characters as they make the product.
Check out Wired.com for a gallery of highlights from the exhibit.
