Why do we collect photography?
…the world? For example, one of the most significant collections of photography in our care, the Daily Herald Archive, comprises millions of individual images as well as negatives, contact sheets…
New Year’s Resolutions in our collection
…Go travelling: Leaving for South Africa, 1947, Baker, Science Museum Group collection Eat more healthily: Woman pictured for Daily Herald slimming feature, 1957, Unknown, Science Museum Group collection Do more…
Supermarionation: Gerry Anderson, a life in puppetry
…1962, Science Museum Group collection The below photograph from the Daily Herald Archive shows a cameraman* shooting a scene of the launch of Thunderbird 1 from its hiding place within…
Dark and light blue in black and white
…in a very meta moment, a newspaper photographer photographed a film crew filming the Oxford boat crew (still with me?). Oxford crew examining a newsreel camera. Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum…
Collection Selections: Winter Olympic Games
…from about 100 Winter Olympic photographs that have been published in the Daily Herald Archive, held as part of our collection. The Daily Herald was the first national newspaper to…
At Something of a Slant: A poem and two short stories in response to objects in the Science Museum Group Collection
…arrival in Hollywood in 1938. Hedy Lamarr the day she arrived in Hollywood. Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum Group/SSPL The poem refers to a patent (PDF) filed by Lamarr and George…
Blog from the Basement: Our favourite objects in Sound and Vision
…photograph of the Loch Ness Monster from the Daily Herald Archive. The idea of a monster lurking in the depths of Loch Ness is compelling, and people have been searching…
A museum in exile: The great refurbishment of 1997
…Brian in the Daily Herald Collection at Black Dyke Mill, 1997 © John Angerson Before I came along the curators had answered all the enquiries between them. Now they were…
‘Never Alone’: A sociological standpoint, part 1 – who’s watching?
…the UK. CCTV in Oxford Street, Ron Burton, 20 November 1964. Daily Herald/Science Museum © Mirrorpix A 2016 survey by the British Security Industry Authority revealed there could be as…
Colin Ford (13 May 1934 – 21 December 2025)
…important acquisitions include the Daily Herald Archive, the Shelter Archive, the Kraszna-Krausz Archive and the Zoltan Glass Archive. He also established collaborations with many photographers including David Hockney and Don…
How the UK watched the Apollo 11 moon landing
…control camera and issued through Associated Press, 21 July 1969. (Daily Herald Archive / Science Museum Group Collection) In the studio, Michelmore, Burke and Moore were all careful not to…
‘Never Alone’: A sociological standpoint, part 2 – cameras and crime
…1964 © United Press International, Daily Herald/Science Museum Group With mass surveillance, however, people may feel they are always being watched—truly ‘never alone’. This has in fact been used as…