How (and why) do animals see colours differently from humans? Take a look at the world through an animal’s eyes.
Photographer Keeley Bentley writes about her experience researching in our archives, and the links she found between our collection and Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland.
A life-size cardboard cut-out of the Spice Girls might not be something you would expect to find in a museum store…
One of the first collections we have been working on in our Archive Management Project is that of British animator Run Wrake (1965–2012).
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.
As well as people and landscapes, stereo-images were also used to capture fantastic views of the moon.
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.
You may already know about the objects we look after, but did you know we also have a huge number of paper-based archives?
You might think of 3D as brand new technology—but the surprisingly modern-looking 3D viewers in our collection date back to the late 19th century.
Cameras and guns might both ‘shoot’ things, but what else do they have in common? Take a look at some examples of amalgamated versions of these technologies from our collection.
Emily Rees discusses how private archives, like the C.O. Stanley Pye Collection, can offer invaluable insights into the history of media in Britain.