Thursday 17 March 2011 was the very first global Picture a Museum Day, aiming to give people behind-the-scenes access to the world’s museums and galleries through Flickr and Twitter.
Emma was a Website Manager and content writer at the Science Museum Group until 2015.
The next exhibition to be displayed in Gallery Two is David Spero: Churches, which will be open from 15 April to 4 September 2011.
World-renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz visited the museum on Tuesday—the latest stop on a personal journey she is undertaking looking at places relating to inspirational and culturally significant people.
French artist Denis Darzacq visited the museum to capture Bradford theatre group Mind the Gap in the foyer.
Our Fay Godwin exhibition recently received a welcome addition when a delayed loan from the British Library was finally installed.
Our animation festival is over for another year—here are some of the highlights, from fantastic guest speakers to Doctor Who videogames.
If you love animation, you’ll be delighted with The Illusionist, based on a script by Jacques Tati and directed by Sylvain Chromet (of Belleville Rendezvous fame). Our Film Programmer, Tom Vincent, gives his expert opinion.
On Wednesday the museum made a real landmark achievement: we broke a world record—for the number of people playing Nintendo DS games simultaneously in the same place for 10 minutes.
Leslie Grantham, famous for playing Dirty Den in EastEnders, came to the museum today and visited our display celebrating 25 years of the BBC soap.
Last week, Hussain Currimbhoy from Sheffield Doc/Fest visited the museum to introduce Academy Award-winning documentary The Fog of War.
Simon Roberts, whose We English exhibition is on display until 5 September 2010, returned to the museum yesterday to sit in conversation with Greg Hobson, curator of photographs.
As Fantastic Films Weekend, our festival celebrating horror film, draws to a close for 2010, Emma picks some highlights.