Our collection

With the museum temporarily closed while preparations for our new galleries are underway, you may have seen lots of activity going on through the windows on your way to Pictureville Cinema.

Bad Yorkshire weather may have been too much for an early TV transmitter in the North—but the ingenuity of designers and engineers solved the problem.

Research Associate Alex reveals more about a project using citizen science to work collaboratively with volunteers on the Daily Herald Archive.

The dramatic events of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission were natural movie material—but how do you recreate the zero-gravity world of a spacecraft for cinema audiences?

We’ve collected memories and stories about the EMI 2001 television camera from BBC alumni, highlighting how this iconic piece of equipment was used.

Images from an archive in our collection show how depictions of the perfect family Christmas have been used to sell products and services for decades.

Before the advent of cinema, magic lantern shows provided popular public entertainment. One example from our collection tells a gripping Christmas tale.

Did you know that images from TV were first recorded to disc in 1927? Read on for a short history of the different ways in which television has been recorded, from mechanical to digital.

Toni Booth reveals objects from our collection that shed light on the much-debated story of cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene.

How did we get from the era of silent films to the stereo surround sound of today’s cinemas? Ewan Grainger takes a whistle-stop tour of the history of sound in film.

DARE Art Prize winner Redell Olsen writes about her work with our collection.

We worked with Why Don’t We to produce a new exhibition called My Museum and Me. Sarah explains how it all came together—even when lockdown got in the way!