A QUIRKY exhibition which depicts the Adam and Eve story in a pub paradise is the centre of a new adult exhibition at the Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock.

The mechanical cabaret theatre scene which depicts the well-known biblical story was part of an attempt to build an elaborate 25,000 sq ft theme park in a Sheffield shopping centre.

Ron Fuller’s Adam and Eve Pub was intended to be part of a cutting-edge landmark in the history of automata when it was designed and built for the fairground-style Ride of Life Project at Meadowhall Shopping Centre in the late 1980s.

Developers had intended shoppers would be transported on flying sofas during the ride but the idea was scrapped when the early 1990s recession took hold.

Visitors to the Woodstock museum will see Adam and Eve depicted as a landlord and landlady, shown naked behind a bar with cider pumps covering Eve’s modesty.

A drunk city worker depicts the temptation element of the Genesis passage as he has drunk too much cider made from the juices of the apple from the forbidden tree.

A museum spokesman said: “The serpent, who in the Bible persuades Eve to eat an apple from a tree, is portrayed by a lairy biker playing a fruit machine while shouting obscenities and giving rude gestures.”

The free exhibition is not suitable for children and runs until Sunday, March 28.

The museum in Park Street is open 10am until 5pm Tuesday to Saturday and 2pm to 5pm on Sundays.