What does it mean to be truly original? Should creativity be measured only by success? Or is it really the thought that counts ? No matter how impractical? Behind every enduring innovation lies a vast cemetery of achievement: the world of failed inventions. Award-winning author and illustrator Shaun Tan explores this forgotten world in The Oopsatoreum, a fictional tale of a strikingly original but spectacularly unsuccessful inventor. Woven around strange and largely obscure artefacts from the Powerhouse Museum, the whimsical stories in this book are for anyone who has ever made a mistake. Illustrated with original drawings by Shaun Tan and stunning photographs of objects from the Powerhouse Museum collection.