Bradford primary school students were among the first to explore Supersenses—take a look at what they discovered.
We have eight permanent galleries and three exhibition spaces. From interactive family fun to the history of photography, find out more about the subjects we cover and the objects we display with blog posts from our team and guest authors.
How (and why) do animals see colours differently from humans? Take a look at the world through an animal’s eyes.
National Science and Media Museum volunteer Rosemary Cole discovers the links between photography and paintings at our Poetics of Light exhibition.
Sunday 30 April was World Pinhole Day, and to mark the occasion we teamed up with the Bradford School of Art to explore the world of pinhole photography.
National Science and Media Museum volunteer Peter Harvey writes about how Poetics of Light proves the simplest cameras can produce some of the most atmospheric images.
Hit It! is an unusual (and often amusing) installation that captures candid portraits of people in motion.
Our summer exhibition, In Your Face, inspired us to go hunting for examples of ‘faces’ in some of our collection objects.
Dr Jane Frances, Policy Adviser in Education at Changing Faces, talks about how we look at faces and how different ways of seeing are represented in our In Your Face exhibition.
Our brand new family experience, In Your Face, opened on 23 July with an amazing celebration party.
Touring Exhibitions Coordinator Sarah Hanson follows Only in England as the exhibition tours to the Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury.
If you could tell people just one thing about yourself, what would it be? Our Great Interactions exhibition inspired visitors to consider this intriguing question.
Artists-in-residence Martha Jurksaitis and Christian Hardy give us a taster of their Light Fantastic exhibit.