Post by Stephen on Mar 11, 2016 14:21:46 GMT -5
In the news today, it looks like the move many years ago to Bradford, from London, of the National Photographic collection is beginning to come apart. The Museum changed it's name to a Media Centre a couple of years ago, but visitors numbers have fallen away dramatically, and parts of the Photo collection are to be returned to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Lots of the collection like the Baird TV equipment is not on display, only in store, and many film items are now storage only, and only available to researchers.
Millions were spent on the pointless move north, equivalent in the US to moving the Smithsonian to the north of say, Nevada, nice for those there of course. It's only asset is a fully equipped Imax cinema, but it is not enough to justify a trip from the south just to visit the Museum.
I suspect the rest of it will return to London but will be split up. The John Logie Baird television items are priceless and include his experimental colour TV from the mid 1930's and his last designs for a 3D colour set, once thought to never have been built, but they found all the parts in the Baird collection. One would think that the inventors world beating early 1920's TV items would be properly displayed, after all Philo Farnsworth's early 1930's electronic TV items are now properly displayed in the Smithsonian.
I hope they do not break up the collection, but find one home for it in London, maybe in the Docklands development area.
Stephen
Lots of the collection like the Baird TV equipment is not on display, only in store, and many film items are now storage only, and only available to researchers.
Millions were spent on the pointless move north, equivalent in the US to moving the Smithsonian to the north of say, Nevada, nice for those there of course. It's only asset is a fully equipped Imax cinema, but it is not enough to justify a trip from the south just to visit the Museum.
I suspect the rest of it will return to London but will be split up. The John Logie Baird television items are priceless and include his experimental colour TV from the mid 1930's and his last designs for a 3D colour set, once thought to never have been built, but they found all the parts in the Baird collection. One would think that the inventors world beating early 1920's TV items would be properly displayed, after all Philo Farnsworth's early 1930's electronic TV items are now properly displayed in the Smithsonian.
I hope they do not break up the collection, but find one home for it in London, maybe in the Docklands development area.
Stephen
