Learning consultant Philip Webb explores why books and films are so important for getting children engaged with literacy.
We have seven 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.
Watch the best, the rarest and the most extraordinary films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive with BFI Mediatheque from Friday 19 July 2013.
Our landmark exhibition in 2002 celebrated 40 years of the world’s best-known movie phenomenon—the James Bond films.
When I arrived at the museum and met a couple who had driven up specially from Nottingham, anxiously waiting for our star to arrive, I knew it was going to be a good day.
We’ve joined forces with Seven Stories to create our very first exhibition designed especially for families. Let’s talk about Moving Stories…
Irna Qureshi traces the history and meaning of a fascinating variety of movie marketing: the unique, hand-painted Bollywood poster.
Our Photography Curator Colin Harding looks back at his time spent with legendary photographer Don McCullin.
Roy Exley explores the art of the still life photograph and its 200-year history.
Brian Liddy investigates the still life in art and photography—with its roots in the vanitas tradition, is the genre inherently morbid?
The Kodak Gallery now plays host to one of our most amazing discoveries: the earliest moving colour film. Our timeline charts the full story of how Lee and Turner’s film came to be.
Until recently it was believed that there was only one print of Roger Fenton’s ’Pasha and Bayadère’ in existence, at the Getty Institute in Los Angeles; then another was discovered in the UK.
We’re happy to report that the much-loved Games Lounge has now reopened after its reolcation to Level 5 of the museum.