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🚨 Temporarily closed until 2025 🚨 Exploring the science and culture of image and sound technologies. Home to @Pictureville_BD 🎥
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Today we’ve announced that the museum will reopen in 2025 to align with the launch of Bradford’s City of Culture year.
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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.
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#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.
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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
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Objects from our collection that look like they've got faces - a thread.
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It's our birthday! We're 39 and lookin' fine 🥳🎈
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#OnThisDay
1989, the World Wide Web was 'born'.
The World Wide Web was invented by British engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.
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tfw the air con is too cold at the cinema.
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@TheMERL
The Museum of English Rural Life
There is no way of proving we didn't cheat but we are a very honest museum and we did not cheat.
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Yeah the iPhone 12 looks cool, but have you considered the Snoopy Phone?
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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.
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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.
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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
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What's your favourite object from our collection and why is it the Spice Girls Polaroid?
#MuseumPassion
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Thinking of all the Tamagotchis in museum collections that haven't been fed for years...
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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]
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@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.
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It's our birthday! 🥳
We're 38 and feeling great.
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Show us a cuter musical instrument, we'll wait.
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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.
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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.
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Great to welcome
@Dynamomagician
to
#LightFantastic
&
@LizWest_Art
's An Additive Mix today
#Bradford
#LightAndMagic
http://t.co/LiJmAyDRsj
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It's 1983 and you've just got a new cassette player.
What's the first song you're playing?
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Microsoft Teams is down so we're going old school.
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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]
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Just a couple of capybaras hanging out in 1895.
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Good morning to everyone, but especially to this dog on a tricycle from 1905.
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Happy Burns Night to this man from Glasgow walking his (tame) haggis.
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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.
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#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.
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Hey
@yourewrongabout
fans! Do you need some visuals to go along with the latest episode on the Cottingley Fairies?
We’ve got you… 🧵 👇
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.
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Yes, we are looking into why we don't have a Pokémon Camera photography collection.
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Three weeks to go until we're together again 💖
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Why does this object look like it's having an existential crisis?
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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.
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So then - our new name is... the National Science and Media Museum. This is what's coming up!
#Wonderlab
#Soyuz
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Wendy Carlos: film score composer and electronic music pioneer.
A
#WomensHistoryMonth
thread
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We thought you might need to see some puppies right now, so here are six husky puppies from 1957.
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🥳 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!
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Just an average day at the Museum. Yo-kai have given our Learning and Nintendo teams dancing fever!
#YokaiWatch
#Bradford
#halfterm
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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?
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Puffer grey women's coat (not from ASOS)
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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.
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Happy International
#WomensDay
2015! We'll be sharing some great images of women all day.
http://t.co/0zklt703GM
http://t.co/z0fsMeGzq7
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Hello new friends who are finding us from
@shanemadej
’s retweet 👋
Guess the National Science and Media Museum is a Shaniac now.
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Bradford you’re looking stunning out of our windows this morning 😍
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Us looking at the millions of photos in our collection trying to pick which to post for
#WorldPhotographyDay
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Welcome to our very first Twitter exhibition.
We're taking a look down the tube of history and exploring one of the very first crazes - kaleidoscopes.
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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!
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Everyone in the UK watching Big Jet TV
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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 👀
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🎉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
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#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.
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#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.
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The
@peakdistrict
became the UK's first National Park
#OnThisDay
1951. Here's a pic of Headstone Viaduct, Monsal Dale, from the Daily Herald (1936)
#HappyBirthday
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Y'alright cockers!
We've got a special message from everyone's favourite normal, innocent man
@HackerTDog
!
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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.
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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
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Today is Louis Daguerre's 233rd birthday 🥳
To celebrate, here's a short thread of some of our daguerreotypes, starting with the classic 'doguerreotype'
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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 -
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Does anyone know who this dapper chap is?
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Good morning to everyone, but especially to these puppies.
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On a scale of 1–9, which cat are you today?
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When you forget the National Science and Media Museum is closed on Mondays
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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 👻🧵
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We always love to see this footage of Bradford from 1896 😍
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
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