Anyone recognise this face?
Our object of the week will be familiar if you tuned into Saturday’s episode of Doctor Who – but don’t worry, our Stookie Bill figure is safely stored away out of the Toymaker’s reach.
#OnThisDay
1841, Louis Le Prince was born.
Le Prince was the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence using a single-lens camera (that very camera is pictured here), right here in our home county of West Yorkshire.
BRADFORD IS UK CITY OF CULTURE 2025 💥
We couldn't be prouder of our city and the incredible work everyone at
@bradford2025
has done.
This is Bradford's time!
#CityofCulture2025
We are pleased to announce a new direction for the museum.
From today, we will be known as the National Science and Meme Museum - the only museum dedicated to the science and culture of memes.
As many of you will have seen, John Logie Baird used this eerie ventriloquist’s dummy in his pioneering television work, as the lights for his experiments were so hot they couldn't involve real life humans.
Our highlight was seeing Stookie on our TV screens (although we’re glad he’s not still in them) but we want to know what your favourite moment was? Tweet us and let us know!
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho60
#TelevisionHistory
We are delighted to announce that we have received initial support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund (
@HeritageFundUK
) to begin the development of our new Sound and Vision galleries. [1/4]
@YorkshireMuseum
Do you find you're always forgetting your hearing-trumpet or eye-glass?
Fear not! With this stylish and modern Revolving Hat, you'll never leave home without them.
Today is
#TransDayOfVisibility
so here's a reminder that Lynn Conway, a transgender woman, played a huge role in the microchip design revolution that made the smartphones and computers you use today possible.
This week for
#SonicFriday
we're celebrating one of the most influential musical innovations of the 20th century: the
#FairlightCMI
.
In this thread we'll be taking a look at some of the iconic songs the Fairlight was used on.
Someone (this social media manager) has just finished binge-watching Schitt's Creek so here is -
MOIRA ROSE AS THE SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP COLLECTION
[a thread]
In honour of the Walkman's anniversary this week, our
#SonicFriday
theme is 'memories from my cassette player'.
Let us know which songs you listened to on tape and we'll put them together in a playlist.
#OnThisDay
1977, Morph made his first appearance on our TV screens.
Morph made his TV debut on Take Hart and has been a regular fixture on our screens since, including a guest appearance on Ashes to Ashes in 2009.
NEW EPISODE! This week, Sarah tells her favorite kind of story to
@AmerHysteria
’s Chelsey Weber-Smith: one where two girls hoaxed the world without trying very hard.
Welcome to our new Twitter Exhibition.
Today we will be travelling across the rolling hills of this beautiful county and exploring Yorkshire Hollywood: How Bamforth and the Riley Borthers joined forces to make (some of) the first films.
🥳 Happy 40th birthday to us 🥳
Today, we celebrate 40 years of movie magic, camera wizardry and mind-boggling media - and we look forward to what excitement the next 40 years (and beyond) will bring!
This summer, we’ll be celebrating the museum’s 40th birthday and we want to hear from you:
- Have you been visiting us for years, or even decades?
- What objects do you come back to see each trip?
- What's your favourite memory of the museum?
Today is
#BlueMonday
, supposedly the most depressing day of the year, so here are some lovely blue cyanotypes by Anna Atkins to brighten up the timeline.
Congratulations
@jodrellbank
on becoming a
@UNESCO
World Heritage Site. Coincidentally we've just unpacked this little beauty - a 1960s 1:200 model of the Lovell radio telescope for our new exhibition!
While we know when Louis Le Prince was born, we don't know when he died, because in September of 1890 he mysteriously disappeared.
His disappearance was covered in an episode of
@BuzzFeed
Unsolved, which we get a little mention in 👀
🎉THE MUSEUM IS OPEN🎉
We hope everyone visiting has a brilliant time.
Thank you for all your support while we've been closed. It's very, very good to be back.
#RediscoverBradford
#OnThisDay
1832, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was born.
Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865. Below are some of our Alice in Wonderland magic lantern slides from the 1870s.
#OnThisDay
1862, Auguste Lumière was born. Auguste Lumière and his brother Louis were pioneers of early cinema and invented the Cinématographe.
In his later life Auguste worked in the biomedical field and pioneered the use of X-Rays for examining fractures.
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, was born
#onthisday
1955.
Apple was formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976 and they ran the company from Jobs' parent's garage.
The Apple I was their first product.
Is your child texting about the National Science and Media Museum?
smh - science (and) media hurray
lol - lots of learning
tfw - time for Wonderlab
rofl - really old film, lovely
btw - beautiful televisions wow
idc - I dig cameras
gtg - Gordon the Gopher
Today is Louis Daguerre's 233rd birthday 🥳
To celebrate, here's a short thread of some of our daguerreotypes, starting with the classic 'doguerreotype'
Our
@shaunthesheep
half term starts tomorrow! Join us for a week of fun with Shaun and the gang including screenings of A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, your chance to make your own Shaun and learn behind-the-scenes secrets from an
@aardman
animator -
Things are getting spooky as
@MediaMediumship
take us through the controversial history of spirit photography and reveal some of the hidden technologies at its heart 👻🧵
A very grainy film from 125 years ago taken 1896 in Bradford Town Hall Square it's the earliest known surviving footage of Victorian Bradford nothing is known about the film or who took it. The amount of people & traffic around suggests it could be a Saturday morning
Courtesy BFI