Last night the museum and City Park were overrun by rampaging zombies… to promote our Fantastic Films Weekend, celebrating the best horror and SFF movies.
Our guest authors include researchers and students working with our collection, volunteers, friends of the museum, and representatives of other museums, charities and organisations we work with.
One of the attractions of going to a film festival is the chance to spot the coveted ‘next big thing’. Sam Turner picks three from BIFF 2012.
The Life Online launch is now just over two weeks away, and the team working on the [open source] exhibition are busy installing four brand new artworks.
One of the interactive games I was tasked with making for a gallery about the internet was about life before the internet. A perverse request, you might think…
Erin Newell and Phil Bird’s artwork 1 and another celebrates the web’s open source spirit of sharing and collaboration.
It takes a lot of work to develop the interactive exhibits you see at the museum. Audience Researcher Catherine Elvin looks at how we test them.
Thomson & Craighead focus on the threat to net neutrality with their piece Live Portrait of Tim Berners-Lee (an early warning system).
Getting the opportunity to work on a brand new gallery doesn’t happen very often. Creating video content for Life Online presented an exciting challenge for our team.
Six months ago, a group of dedicated young people came together to work on the development of a brand new artwork as part of the Life Online project.
Looking for photographs of your town 50 years ago, David Attenborough in his youth, or your emigrant ancestors? There’s a good chance the image you’re searching for is in the Daily Herald Archive.
We’ve moved into the really exciting final phase of the Life Online gallery build, where the 2D concepts are finally coming to life.
It is with great sadness that we have heard of the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold.