Brian Liddy investigates the still life in art and photography—with its roots in the vanitas tradition, is the genre inherently morbid?
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.
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.
Beth Hughes takes an in-depth look at a Richard Billingham image from our latest exhibition.
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…
Anna takes a behind-the-scenes look at our latest exhibition.
Erin Newell and Phil Bird’s artwork 1 and another celebrates the web’s open source spirit of sharing and collaboration.
Installing a new exhibition can involve many hurdles—it’s not all just hanging pictures on a wall—and today we tackled quite a challenge.
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).