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The most extensive collection of James Bond material ever assembled
Although I wasn’t working at the Museum at the time of our Bond, James Bond exhibition, I remember vividly coming to visit it. It is one of those experiences that stays with you. Aston Martin DB5 from...
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BFI Mediatheque comes to the National Media Museum
Our film and TV programme archive is about to get bigger – much bigger. On 19th July, TV Heaven will close, and we’ll be opening BFI Mediatheque, doubling the amount of films and TV programmes you can...
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Media Literacy and our Moving Stories exhibition – an expert opinion
Our Moving Stories exhibition is already getting people talking. Specialist Philip Webb tells us about the power of Media Literacy and why he can’t wait for the exhibition to open. Still from Lost...
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Moving Stories exhibition opened by Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler
A far cry from the evening receptions which usually herald the opening of our special exhibitions, Moving Stories: Children’s Books from Page to Screen was launched yesterday with the help of two...
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We want your Doctor Who memorabilia
With cult and long running television shows comes the inevitability of the super-fan; those who know every single morsel of trivia about their favourite series and who lovingly dedicate themselves to...
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Could you illustrate a children’s book or an animation?
As part of our Moving Stories exhibition this summer, we’ve been challenging our visitors to see if they could become an illustrator (and our virtual visitors too). As we seek to explain the journey a...
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Film adaptations keep children’s books alive, but who are these kids anyway?
Guest post by writer and children’s literature expert, Elly McCausland. Moving Stories: Children’s Books from Page to Screen provides a rare insight into the complex process of adapting children’s...
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On video game pop songs – a musical tribute to our Games Lounge
Our Games Lounge features a dozen or so fully playable authentic old school video game arcade consoles. I was inspired to write this blog post upon rediscovering the peculiar and fascinating (and...
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Watch rare and extraordinary film and TV in our BFI Mediatheque
A trip to the cinema usually takes place to discover bold, new and exciting movies or, alternatively, to re-visit films which have been labelled as classics, features which have grown in our affections...
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Will you be on our walls when Only in England opens here on Friday?
Between 1966 and 1969, Tony Ray-Jones photographed at many hundreds of locations and events, and thousands of people appear in his photographs. Because Ray-Jones was photographing in a way that was...
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Martin Parr: “I didn’t court controversy.”
“I didn’t court controversy. It just happened.” So says photographer Martin Parr of the accusation that his work often possesses a leering, mocking tone of his supposedly little England subjects. His...
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How the girl in red from a 1913 photo became a social media starlet
Portrait of Christina wearing a red cloak, 1913, Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn O’Gorman © National Media Museum, Bradford SSPL More than a hundred years after they were taken, the National Media Museum’s...
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#Solved: The mystery identity of our social media starlet Christina
The story of our social media starlet had got us to the point where century old images of the girl in red had gone over a storm on social media and caught the attention world’s press. Taken in 1913 on...
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Liz West lights up our lives with ‘An Additive Mix’
Artist Liz West has spent the past five years creating artworks that combine light and colour to spectacular effect. Excited by her previous works, we commissioned Liz to create a brand new piece for...
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My Message to Bradford
by Jo Quinton-Tulloch, Director of the National Media Museum The last week has shown again how much this Museum means to Bradford, and how much it owes to Bradford. Unsurprisingly it brought to my mind...
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What’s happening to the National Media Museum is a fresh start
Dame Mary Archer is Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Science Museum Group There is a striking statue of the great novelist and Bradfordian J B Priestley outside the National Media Museum, and we need...
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“One Thing You Need to Know About Me Is…”
By Kate Burnett, Content Developer, National Media Museum If you could tell people just one thing about yourself what would it be? For the Great Interactions book, Polly Braden photographed MacIntyre...
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Unveiled: Double Exposure is almost fully developed
This week sees the unveiling of the final exhibit by Light Fantastic artists-in-residence Martha Jurksaitis (Cherry Kino) and Christian Hardy (Alchemy Studio). Photographs and films for their project...
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How Big Is The Camera You’d Need To Film An Ant?
Jack Hynes is a Camera Assistant for Ammonite Films. He spends most of his time building camera rigs, testing equipment, and working with some rather unpredictable stars. Here he explains how Ammonite...
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Our artists’ in residence Icelandic diary
Martha Jurksaitis and Christian Hardy are the first artists-in-residence appointed to our Light Fantastic: Adventures in the Science of Light galleries. They can be seen at work every Monday, Thursday...
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