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I went there many years ago when it was fairly new. I think Kodak were also the sponsors back then. As well as the museum and the IMAX cinema, the nearby Pictureville Cinema is also run by the museum, and is one of only about 3 cinemas left in the world that can show 3 strip 35mm Cinerama prints. They normally put on a classic Cinerama film once a month. Once a year they have a “WideScreen Weekend” and show old films made in Cinerama and other wide screen formats like 70mm etc.
The disused Odeon cinema Bradford, near the Alhambra Theatre has a group trying to get the building restored.

London at one time had a museum similar to the Bradford Media Museum, it was called MOMI (Museum of Moving Image) and was located next to, and partially within the BFI on London’s Southbank. Unfortunately despite being very popular this closed in 1999.
Its a very wide ranging week from dg. Wembley, Hertfordshire, Margate and Bradford.And its only Thursday! I remember the Museum of Moving Image on the South Bank. It was one of the first to use actors amongst the exhibits. Although there was a fee to pay to enter it was good value for money. Sorry it closed.
Glad you enjoyed your visit. Sadly the BBC recently moved out - they had a working TV studio there and an office to look after their local web output.

The next time you're in Bradford, head over to Forster Square Station and take a train to Saltaire - it's a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to Salts Mill which has many of David Hockney's paintings.

I wish there was more in central Bradford to see other than the Media Museum, but sadly most of the city centre was flattened 10 years ago to build a Westfield shopping centre which has yet to start construction.
Hi Neil

You may be pleased by what I did with the rest of my day...
Excellent :)
Manic Miner: alternate keys on one row are left and right - either the top (qwerty) or bottom (zxcv) of the letters, probably - and another row is jump, I think. Jetpac was similar, if I remember correctly.
That museum was my favourite place as a child. We spent entire days there. I particularly remember the Muppets exhibition in the mid-90s, when it was on tour from the US. I went back to the museum last year and was a bit disappointed. It's nowhere near as good as it used to be - or perhaps I'm just much older now.

The building with Ice Skating on it used to house an ice skating rink on the ground floor - not sure if it's still there or not.

Ice skating, followed by the film and photography museum and ended with the Alhambra panto - ah, happy childhood winter days out in Bradford.
Let me guess what you did in the afternoon then.

Yep, I've got it. You went for one of Bradford's famous curries!
Kodak's sponsorship of the museum goes back to the 1980s when their own museum at the Harrow factory closed.
and most of the Kodak Museum's artefacts were donated to the Science Museum, and became part of the NMPFT's collection. The balance, mostly archival papers, was retained by Kodak until a couple of years ago when they were donated to De Montfort University, Leicester.

Guess where I used to work...
Since its opening this summer there is now a branch gallery of the NMM in London, located inside the Science Museum. You can tell it's a separate institution because it has its own cafe.

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/Home/visitmuseum/media_space.aspx

It seems to be for historic photographs rather than film. But the NMM photograph exhibitions that I've seen in Bradford have been fascinating.
The NMM's part of the Science Museum Group (along with the National Rail Museum, and the Museum of Science and Technology in Manchester) - I suspect the reason they've got a cafe in the NMM branch is simply because cafes bring in extra money!










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