I was well surprised about the scale of this modern museum in this small city in Yorkshire which is - to be fair - not a typical tourist destination. As I later read on a museum leaflet, apparently Bradford is the UNESCO City of Film.
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| National Media Museum |
The museum is massive. The permanent and temporary exhibitions of 8 floors encompass the mix that the concept of "media" covers. I must say, this is the best state-funded museum outside of London that I've visited so far (and I'm very critical here!). And of course the entry is free.
The informative leaflet is a big help in selecting those bits that are the most interesting. We originally chose to see only few parts: the Kodak Gallery, exhibiting about the history of photography; the Games Lounge where visitors can play with awesome old school video games such as Pacman, Prince of Persia and the Animation Gallery explaining about works of famous British and non-British animation studios, types of animation and influence waves.
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| In the Kodak Gallery |
But eventually we also ran through a temporary photo exhibition of local artist, Chris Harrison (which left me a little bit heartbroken), the Magic Factory interactive part, which was a big disappointment in comparison with other museums' similarly aimed section, the Experience TV floor furnished as a television studio, and Life Online which was about the history and inventions of the computer and the Internet and here I could have spent an entire afternoon playing with HTML and Morse.
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| Life Online exhibition |
The whole museum blew me away. It's aimed at the whole family, but for childless adult visitors it also offers a great day of enjoyment. The building is conveniently easily approachable from Bradford train station and is on the main square which I found the most attractive part of the city.
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| View from the 7th floor |
I strongly recommend this museum - if not anything else, this is definitely worth a daytrip to Bradford.
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