Now in its 21st year, Widescreen Weekend is one of the highlights of our calendar—every October we welcome hundreds of film fans to the museum to experience widescreen delights both old and new.
Mission: Space, our fabulous interstellar half term adventure, is on this week. As part of it we have a fascinating display of space food, very generously loaned to us by The Space Collective.
This year’s Widescreen Weekend opened with Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, which launched the yearly film festival on Thursday 12 October.
On Tuesday 26 September 2017, we took delivery of a very special object: Tim Peake’s Soyuz descent module had landed at the National Science and Media Museum.
Sound artists Vicky Clarke and David Birchall, aka Noise Orchestra, take you behind the scenes of the Bradford-inspired installation they created for Supersenses.
During the summer holidays, STEM Ambassadors Aisha and Serish spent time in our Supersenses exhibition, talking to visitors about how neurones help us sense the world. We asked them to tell us more…
Commissioned by the charity Shelter, Nick Hedges photographed Bradford in 1969–70, documenting the housing crisis of the time with images that capture the links between domestic life and industry.
As well as books and journals, our library is home to self-published zines covering community broadcasting and pirate radio.
Can a museum exhibition engage all five of our senses? Alice Carlton gives us a younger visitor’s view of Supersenses.
The Andor Kraszna-Krausz Archive offers a fascinating glimpse into the Focal Press founder’s travels across Europe.
Bradford primary school students were among the first to explore Supersenses—take a look at what they discovered.
How (and why) do animals see colours differently from humans? Take a look at the world through an animal’s eyes.