ANNUAL REVIEW 2014–15

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EXTRAORDINARY FIND ACQUIRED BY THE NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM Willington ‘waggonway’, c. 1780s Buried for nearly two centuries, this wooden standard-gauge track in the world, also points back ‘waggonway’ unearthed during redevelopments on to the earliest railways in Britain from 1603 onwards. Tyneside in 2013 is the most significant survivor yet Currently under specialist conservation to stabilise of the pre-steam railway. With some components the timber after centuries below ground, some of made of timber recovered from ships of the time, it the track is being considered for display as part tells a remarkable story of industry and innovation of the NRM Masterplan. from the 1780s but, as part of the oldest surviving Photograph by Bob Gwynne

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The universe cannot A new world-class interactive wish for a more gallery will open at the National perceptive eye than the Media Museum in 2016 and our IMAX FIVE MUSEUMS WITH ONE Science Museum theatre is going digital; the threat of PROFESSOR ROBBERT DIJKGRAAF closure is past, the future could not UNIQUE SELLING POINT DIRECTOR AND LEON LEVY PROFESSOR AT THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY IN PRINCETON be more exciting LORD GRADE SMG TRUSTEE AND CHAIR, We welcome Dame Mary Archer, the distinguished chemist, NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM ADVISORY BOARD to the chairmanship of the Science Museum Group. Here she relishes the challenge

© 2015 The Board of Trustees of restored and displayed at the National the Science Museum OUR FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS Railway Museum. I would also like Science Museum, (SM) warmly to acknowledge my predecessor Edited by David Johnson Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester (MSI) with generous input from staff at SMG Dr Douglas Gurr and Dr Gill Samuels, and its many bloggers National Railway Museum, York (NRM) who took the helm as Chairman in the National Media Museum, Bradford (NMeM) months before my arrival. Designed by Steve Lancefield National Railway Museum, Shildon (NRM) Great opportunities lie within our grasp. Project manager, Sian Worsfold Picture researcher, Kira Zumkley The country’s economy depends on Copy editor, Lawrence Ahlemeyer THE YEAR’S HIGHLIGHTS the understanding and application of The Science Museum Group attracted a total of science, technology, engineering and Main photography from Group resources: 5,337,000 visits during the past year, among which mathematics. Yet Britain is desperately Museum of Science & Industry short of engineers, only 13% of young National Media Museum 595,000 people visited in booked education groups. National Railway Museum/Pictorial Collection people in the UK study maths beyond Science & Society Picture Library The Science Museum attracted 3,348,000 visits, the age of 16, and more than 80% of Science Museum Library & Archives and welcomed 452,000 visitors in education groups, postgraduate STEM students at UK Science Museum Photographic Studio of which a record-breaking 388,000 were children universities come from outside the EU. With thanks for additional photographs by: and young people. Tim Anderson, Charlotte Arliss, Kasim Asim, Among its 5.7 million visits last year, Ed Bartholomew, Rick Bronks/Satureyes, Louisa The Museum of Science & Industry created the the Group welcomed half a million Burden, Jaron Chubb, Dan Clarkson, Paul Duke, innovative Pi Platform for Investigation as a monthly 16- to 24-year-olds and nearly 1.8 million Benjamin Ealovega, David Exton, Natasha Joining the Science Museum Group as children. Thus we are uniquely positioned Ferrari, Tristan Fewings/Stringer, Chris Foster, laboratory where 14,000 visitors of all ages Chairman, some 15 years after I stepped to increase the country’s science capital Tim Garlick, Bob Gwynne, Jennie Hills, Kick participated in live scientific experiments. Creative, Jason Lawton, Jason Lock, LOJU, Kippa down as a Trustee, I’ve been struck and to create a workforce fit for our time. Matthews, Andrew McCaren/Rossparry, Simon The National Railway Museum (York and Shildon) anew by our iconic collections and the But we must develop our nationwide McFadden/Reaktion Books, Ed Miller/BBC/ stories they tell of inspiration, discovery STEM activity in the face of steadily Together Films, Richard Pearson, Santiago Arribas achieved a total of 894,000 visits during the year. and invention. The richness of our falling Grant in Aid from the Department Pena, Johan Persson, Platform 5 Architects, At NRM Shildon 6000 visitors celebrated its tenth- holdings, our cultural memory and the of Culture, Media and Sport, and with Sam Potts, Preloaded, Dan Prints, Rail Media, anniversary steam gala. David Robertson, Arnaud Robin, Graeme Rowatt, breadth of our offering to the public scant recognition in public funding Scriberia,Thomas Spain, Paul Thompson, Jonny make us a leader among the world’s terms that we are an integral part of At the National Media Museum the annual Bradford Walton, Zaha Hadid Architects, Kira Zumkley science museums. the nation’s science base. Animation Festival attracted more than 9000 And from our national collections: students, industry figures and family visitors. Bob Carlos Clarke, Daily Herald Archive, The Group stands today at an exciting New capital is needed to invest in Roger Fenton, Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince confluence of success, opportunity and galleries and exhibitions, to deliver the

challenge. The achievements of Group’s strategic plans and shift the Printed by Go Agency, using sustainable paper SUPPORT THE WAY OUR MUSEUMS CHANGE Director Ian Blatchford and his team are focus of our attention towards the North. – Cocoon Silk 100, which is produced from 100% Your donation will help us make the most of our post-consumer recycled, FSC certified pulp. Less palpable everywhere – in Information The Government has backed our plans unrivalled collections, acquire new objects, create Age, the Science Museum’s stunning for Manchester, and we will develop energy and water are consumed and fewer CO2 emissions are produced during manufacturing, innovative exhibitions and galleries, and develop new gallery; in the Museum of Science further compelling projects to fire the compared with the production of virgin fibre paper. the world’s best learning programmes for all ages. & Industry’s showcasing of Manchester’s imagination of charitable foundations, FSC recycled certification, NAPM 100% recycled contributions to science and technology business and major philanthropists. certification, ISO 14001, Process Chlorine Free Visit sciencemuseum.org.uk/donate or for (PCF) and PAS 2020:2009 Level 3. corporate membership and patrons see page 69. over three centuries; in Drawn by Light, curated from the exquisite Royal So there’s plenty for the new Board of Photographic Society Collection at Trustees to do. Given the Group’s Cover picture In October 2014 Her Majesty The Queen was invited to send her first tweet as a contemporary way to open an ambitious new exhibition space at the Science Museum. Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World is the first gallery in the UK dedicated to the the National Media Museum; and in remarkable progress in recent years, history of information and communication technology. At its heart stand the mighty tuning coils from what was the world’s most powerful radio Churchill’s funeral train, beautifully I am confident that the best is yet to come. transmitter when it opened at Rugby in 1926. Photograph by Kira Zumkley © Science Museum

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CONTENTS SMG ANNUAL REVIEW 2014–15

What the Cravings exhibition does The Science Museum Group is playing a is reveal how the food we eat shapes really important role in getting young our appetite throughout our life people excited about science and engineering

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HIGHLIGHTS ON OTHER PAGES 60 SMG’s global reach 6 SMG is the place to be 61 Shildon’s birthday party with steam 4 Director’s introduction 8 Huge cash boost for Manchester 62 Two-fold purpose behind collecting We’re making waves – why stop now? 9 A starry coup for maths 76 What we lent out 10 Information Age special 28 One startling gift sets the tone The Queen signals museum renaissance 30 Playing up to the digital native APPENDIX 18 A new lead in Manchester 32 Cherishing the art of science Our five museums in profile 20 Making friends in York 34 New life for old masters 66 SMG financial summary and visit numbers 22 Magic milestones for Bradford 35 Mancunians to the fore! 68 Our generous supporters and how to give 42 Churchill’s curious obsession 70 Who’s who behind our family of museums 24 Experience tomorrow’s world today 44 Counting on volunteer hours 71 Science Museum (SM), London 36 Special section on SMG Learning 46 Welcome to our new faces 72 Museum of Science & Industry (MSI), Manchester We’re bridging the skills gap 50 SMG hits the road 73 National Railway Museum (NRM), York and Shildon 52 Passionate commitment to research 51 Awards for women in animation 74 National Media Museum (NMeM), Bradford 58 A Mecca for photography 56 Entrepreneurial flair sets records 75 Science Museum at Wroughton and Blythe House

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Ambitious programming and creative marketing have been key to our record visit numbers. This requires investment – so I’m afraid the ‘boom’ would vanish like the morning dew if there were major funding cuts in 2015

IAN BLATCHFORD

WE’RE MAKING WAVES – WHY STOP NOW? Initiative and progress characterise Ian Blatchford’s tenure as Director and Chief Executive of the Science Museum Group but he argues that even more could be done if the Group’s vital role in the science base were acknowledged and rewarded

As I embark on my fifth year as Director, to slow down. We have relied on our own we possess in spades, given that 600,000 sharp about messages and the problems are vital, but so too is impact across the I am ever more convinced of the urgency wits to ride out a loss of Government aid people visit our museums in booked that need to be solved. By adapting games country. I said last year that the Group and utility of the Science Museum Group’s to the tune of 30% in real terms since education groups each year. scenarios, the exhibition tests wit and will shift its centre of gravity northwards, place in the cultural life of this country. 2010. Why squander our investment in initiative in the language most familiar and so it was a huge boost in December And whilst there is much to celebrate human capital? Why stop now? The Group has a pioneering learning to digital natives, and aims to intrigue 2014 when the Chancellor announced in this Annual Review, I harbour a deep team, reaching more schoolchildren thousands of young visitors about careers further Government capital funding for frustration that our Government funding The case is simple. The Group should and teachers than any other national in engineering. It is not a magic bullet, the new exhibition space at the Museum position fails to recognise that we are a be funded to the same extent enjoyed by museum. We are deadly serious about but is certainly a valuable contribution. of Science & Industry in Manchester. fundamental part of the UK science base. the science base to attest to its role as a the best research too. We are in our The exhibition enjoyed 127,000 visits in The announcement was great both for key player in the UK science ecosystem. second year of the Enterprising Science its first three months alone and it shows the museum and for the European This Review reports energy, innovation Whilst Britain needs its world-class project, with our partners BP and King’s great potential for national touring. of Science in 2016. and progress across all five of our university science, research councils, College London. We are encouraged by museums – brand-new galleries, better innovation hubs and learned scientific the concept of ‘science capital’ and the There was no better way to bang the drum I want to end by recalling the speech of the visitor amenities and renewed impetus and engineering societies, it also needs degree to which we can find the right for science and engineering than the year: the words of Jim Lovelock in April for our scholarly output. With such the Science Museum Group as much as ‘tipping points’ at which large cohorts new Information Age gallery which Her 2014 at the opening of the Science Museum it is essential that we secure any of them. It is one system. of young people feel empowered – as Majesty The Queen opened in October exhibition that reviewed his scientific the public and private funding to deliver much by their parents as by their 2014. The event was a major international life and celebrated our acquisition of his the full impact of our work. Our museums The importance of STEM education and teachers – to work in STEM fields. story and a celebration of this country’s archive. Jim recalled the crucial impact will help secure the next generation of careers is a major national issue. The outstanding and continuing contribution of visiting the museum in 1926 and how scientists and engineers, and so create concern in Whitehall and business is One brilliant collaboration was the to communications technology. The this led to many decades of ground- Opposite: The Chancellor of the Exchequer a richer and more diverse society. With understandable, but the peril of new creation of the Engineer Your Future gallery combines fundamental physics, breaking research. Despite his 95 years announces a further £3 million investment for the Museum of Science & Industry... so much already achieved and further initiatives remains. We need action that exhibition. Too often STEM projects are technology and vivid personalities, all he retains boundless curiosity about how In Manchester for the news, left to right, ambitions about to be expressed in the is informed by the experience of the best both too muddled and reach too few wrapped into a cultural landscape. the world works. It is what makes scientists Sally MacDonald, Director of MSI, the Rt Hon. , Professor Brian crucial areas of medicine, interactive existing players and partnerships, and young people to have a lasting impact. so admirable. There is so much we still Cox and Ian Blatchford exhibits and maths, we are in no mood robust research into impact – all of which Our excellent partners have been razor STEM impact and cultural confidence need to understand, so why stop now?

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1 2 3 4 1 ‘History is what you remember as having happened, not what actually happened’ – playwright Michael Frayn in conversation with Science Museum Director Ian Blatchford

SMG IS THE 2 Dr Ellen Stofan, NASA’s Chief Scientist, delivered the Campaign for Science and Engineering’s 24th Annual Distinguished Lecture at the Science Museum. Here with Ian Blatchford and PLACE TO BE David W Miller, NASA’s Chief Technologist

3 Professor Brian Cox and Chancellor of the Other pages record how Exchequer George Osborne watch children conduct an experiment at MSI for the launch of SMG’s Manchester museum Manchester as the European City of Science 2016 hub has become a platform 4 Sir Jonathan and Rachel Miller with Dame Mary for announcing ‘northern Archer at the opening of Revelations: Experiments powerhouse’ ambitions, in Photography when he was guest speaker while York sets the pace 5 Morten Tyldum, director of The Imitation Game, in conversation with Dave Calhoun of Time Out as a forum for discussing before a screening in the Science Museum IMAX the future of railways. And 6 Peter Lord, co-founder of Aardman Animations 5 6 7 Her Majesty The Queen studio, kicks off the 2014 Bradford Animation paid us the greatest honour Festival at the National Media Museum by opening a major new This is my favourite 7 Culture secretary Sajid Javid with outgoing Chairman of SMG Douglas Gurr at the Science addition to London’s gallery event of the year Museum Director’s Annual Dinner SIR PAUL NURSE PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY scene. Of course, all our 8 Minister for Women and Education ON THE SCIENTISTS MEET THE MEDIA PARTY museums have again proved Minister help launch the industry-led STEM campaign, Your Life, at the Science Museum themselves magnets for 9 At the Scientists Meet the Media party Dame celebrities who accept that Mary Archer, Chairman of SMG, presents Nobel science is chic these days… Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse with an engraved beer glass to mark the end of his presidency of the Royal Society

10 BBC broadcaster Samira Ahmed [left] chairs a salon on Arab Science Fiction in the Science Museum IMAX 8 9 11 Terry Morgan, Chairman of Crossrail, addresses SMG staff in York on how he keeps a £15 billion engineering project on track

12 Dame Vivienne Westwood and models after her runway show at the Science Museum during London Fashion Week

13 Author Jeanette Winterson explores the Museum of Science & Industry with Director Sally MacDonald for Radio 4

14 Baroness Martha Lane Fox delivers the 2015 Lecture from the Information Age gallery 10 11 12 13 14

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Let’s hope this will inspire further HUGE CASH BOOST FOR MANCHESTER transformational philanthropy

IAN BLATCHFORD DIRECTOR, SCIENCE MUSEUM Platform 5 Architects’ concept for the new exhibition hall in the 1830 Warehouse at the Museum of Science & Industry

The Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to award the Museum of Science & Industry £3 million towards the creation A STARRY COUP FOR MATHS of a new special exhibitions gallery chimed perfectly with Manchester’s largest general scientific conference – rising reputation as a city of science. It and given the accolade of European City If there is a single announcement It is being curated by David Rooney, had just been selected to host the 2016 of Science. The £3 million investment from 2014 that epitomises the current who led the delivery of our Codebreaker EuroScience Open Forum – Europe’s comes in addition to an earlier Treasury revolution at the Science Museum exhibition about Alan Turing. award of £800,000 to kick-start the future generations of Group, it is surely the unveiling of development of plans to turn the vaulted scientists and engineers. the team behind our new maths The startling ambition of the arches of the 1830 Warehouse into a gallery. The Science Museum has mathematics project has been made bespoke facility, suitable for housing The announcement follows the assembled a world-leading architect, possible by the generosity of long- major science exhibitions. In another Government’s vision to create a ‘northern a philanthropist without equal in our standing supporters of science David great vote of confidence, the Wellcome powerhouse’ around this science city. history and an award-winning curator. and Claudia Harding, whose foundation Trust has since awarded us £1.8 million. Where better to realise that ambition has provided the largest individual than in the place where science met Zaha Hadid Architects won the donation ever made to the museum. Building on the success of the Brains: industry and the modern world began? competition to design the world’s Director Ian Blatchford describes their The Mind as Matter and Collider exhibitions, foremost gallery of mathematics with £5 million gift as ‘game-changing’, seen collectively by 116,000 people, an approach that, as the architect adding ‘Let’s hope that this will inspire MSI intends to host touring exhibitions, herself puts it, transforms ‘seemingly further transformational philanthropy.’ as well as curating ground-breaking abstract mathematical concepts into events of its own. Visitors will explore This invaluable an exciting interactive experience’. Secretary of State for Culture, Media and interact with real science that financial support Anchored by the mathematical thinking and Sport Sajid Javid said: ‘Mathematics highlights our internationally significant means we can feed the that permeates these designs, this is an absolutely vital part of a rounded collections. By telling the stories of permanent gallery will explore how education. So it is great news that the enormous passion for Architect Zaha Hadid with donor David Harding Manchester’s scientific endeavours mathematicians, their tools and ideas Science Museum is to have a new gallery, launching plans for the new David and Claudia Ian Blatchford joins George Osborne at science in the Northwest Harding Mathematics Gallery at the Science Museum MSI in Manchester for the launch of the that had and still have a global impact have helped to shape the world from the helping to bring it alive and make it ‘northern powerhouse’ we will fulfil our aspiration to inspire SALLY MACDONALD MSI DIRECTOR turn of the 17th century to the present. meaningful for everyone.’ Top: Zaha Hadid Architects’ concept for the gallery

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HM The Queen has a long relationship with the Science Museum and first visited in March 1938, as a princess, soon after we launched our pioneering interactive Children’s Gallery… 2014: Science Museum Director Ian Blatchford escorts Her Majesty through the Energy Hall

NEW DAWN FOR A NEW AGE History was made at the Science Museum on 24 October 2014 when Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II sent her first tweet to formally open the magnificent new Information Age gallery, part of our ambitious Masterplan

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The first tweet by a reigning British monarch read: ‘It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the Science Museum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R.’ The news quickly spread around the world, highlighting both the Science Museum and the opening of its largest new permanent gallery in more than a decade.

Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World explores many of the remarkable innovations in communication technology that have transformed lives over the past 200 years, from the dramatic story of the laying of the first for the museum’. They were treated to entrepreneurs Baroness Martha Lane transatlantic telegraph cable to the birth a performance of John Adams’s Fox and Mo Ibrahim. of the modern smartphone. It shows off ‘A Short Ride in a Fast Machine’ by 800 important gems not only from our the Philharmonia concert band. Two further high-profile events own world-beating collections but also introduced Information Age to substantial additional artefacts donated Following the royal visit, a panel of distinguished academic and by its partners and funders. leading thinkers and entrepreneurs took parliamentary audiences. At the to the stage in our IMAX auditorium to Science Museum 100 attendees from At the opening ceremony Ian Blatchford, share their unique insights into the big around the world joined the three-day Science Museum Director, welcomed moments in the history of communication ‘Interpreting the Information Age’ the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and technology. In debating what the conference to discuss how the history an audience of 600 patrons, funders, future may hold, chair Tom Standage, and material culture of information communications entrepreneurs, authors Digital Editor of the Economist, was can be made relevant for today’s and experts, and described Information joined by venture capitalist Hermann audiences. And in Westminster, Age as ‘the beginning of a renaissance Hauser, author James Gleick and parliamentarians listened to Sir Tim Berners-Lee talk about the importance of innovation at a reception hosted by POST, the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology, to celebrate the gallery’s opening.

The 1600-square-metre gallery, designed by Universal Design Studio, has already become an essential part of any trip to the Science Museum, and attracted 300,000 visitors in the first four months alone.

During her tour of Information Age the Queen is shown principal exhibits by Ian Blatchford and Lead Curator Tilly Blyth... Clockwise, we see the Cameroon telephone kiosk... The Cable network... Rafael Lozano-Hemmer showing his interactive app for Fiducial Voice Beacons to Patricia Harris of Bloomberg Philanthropies... Parts of 2LO, London’s first radio station from 1922, being moved into the Information Age gallery... Eurostar satellite in The Constellation

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As the largest single gallery inside the Science Museum, Information Age is one of our most WHO’S WHO BEHIND INFORMATION AGE ambitious projects ever, which will reinvigorate the heart of the museum An important family of funders who have supported Information Age includes IAN BLATCHFORD DIRECTOR, SCIENCE MUSEUM the Heritage Lottery Fund, Garfield Weston Foundation, Wolfson Foundation and leading organisations in business and technology. Our corporate funders, including BT, ARM, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Google, continue to Clockwise: Panel discussion with entrepreneurs Hermann Hauser, help us promote the project and will be Baroness Martha Lane Fox, Mo Ibrahim, James Gleick and Tom a vital part of the life of the gallery for Standage... The Queen discusses her coronation with SMG Chairman years to come. Gill Samuels in The Broadcast network... Tim Berners-Lee on video in The Web... Telephony in The Exchange... Model of Brunel’s Great Eastern cable-laying ship in The Cable At the royal opening senior representatives from leading funders voiced their proud support for the gallery in front of the six-metre-high

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s new digital and interactive artwork in the gallery. Information Age was, she said, a ‘perfect fit’ for Bloomberg’s support.

Google has contributed a number of objects including an early corkboard server and Brian McClendon, VP Engineering and the founder of Google Earth, endorsed the museum’s ambition to inspire the next generation.

Carole Souter CBE, Chief Executive of the Heritage Lottery Fund, emphasised the importance of collaboration between public and private donors and HLF’s £6.3 million grant towards the gallery. She said: ‘This is an essential destination for visitors who want to learn more aerial inductance coil from Rugby Radio about our rapidly changing world.’ Station – newly restored and one among BT’s generous donation of 80 objects. Our supporters have shared in the Gavin Patterson, CEO of BT Group, Lead global media attention around Principal Sponsor of the gallery, spoke of Information Age with, for example, triumphs from BT’s history of pioneering announcements displayed atop London’s new communication technologies, from BT Tower, the hosting of international the first electric telegram to the first business leaders and technology transatlantic telephone call. He said that experts for the inaugural ARM Forum, the ‘spirit of the information age creates and the inclusion of the gallery digital a future of endless possibilities’. experiences as part of the global Bloomberg Connects programme. Simon Segars, CEO of ARM, Principal Sponsor, stressed the growing need for Speakers at the royal opening, top: Gavin Patterson, more young people to take up careers Chief Executive, BT Group, Simon Segars, CEO of in engineering, which he described ARM Holdings, Patricia Harris, CEO Bloomberg as ‘vital to the future prosperity of the Philanthropies, and Brian McClendon, VP Engineering at Google... Other pictures show Brian UK’. The relationship between the arts McClendon with Ian Blatchford... Gavin Patterson and science was the focus of Patricia E and family check the first computer with a mouse... Carole Souter, CEO of Heritage Lottery Fund, Harris’s speech as CEO of Bloomberg speaking to guests... Patricia Harris beside the Philanthropies, while she praised 1989 Bloomberg Trackball keyboard CONTINUED 13 14 RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE

Tilly Blyth, Keeper of Technologies The first UK gallery dedicated to the history of information and and Engineering and Lead Curator on LIFE-CHANGING STORIES IN Information Age, says: ‘It has been a huge communication technologies is divided into these six ‘network’ zones team effort to create this new gallery. It marks a step change in the way we have INFORMATION AGE worked to uncover the personal stories behind our rich collections.

‘Information Age shows that in the past, as today, innovation didn’t just come from a few pioneers, but from the users of technology. Eight hundred unique objects from our collections as well as state-of-the-art interactive displays help us tell the remarkable personal stories of those whose lives were changed by each new wave of technology.

‘We have worked closely with communities in the UK and overseas to identify these fascinating user stories, from the application of mobile technology by entrepreneurs in Cameroon, to private telegrams donated by British CABLE EXCHANGE BROADCAST families and from the women who Thomson’s mirror galvanometer, 1858. Wall telephone No. 1. The invention Bush TV22, 1950. Queen Elizabeth II’s operated early telephone exchanges.’ Detected the first message sent between of the telephone shifted electrical coronation broadcast encouraged many Europe and the USA via the original communication from a practical tool people to buy their first television set transatlantic telegraph cable. This cable for transmitting the written word, to a and for many viewers the inexpensive demonstrated for the first time that it was personal tool that brought voices Bush TV22 was the ideal choice. For possible to communicate between the directly into the home. 2 million people the highlight of the continents in less than a day rather than day was witnessing a live television wait a few weeks for a letter to arrive. broadcast of the ceremony.

CONSTELLATION WEB CELL Bound copy of the script for Our World, Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer, made The ARM 1 RISC processor may be the the first live global TV programme, in 1988. This is the original computer smallest object in the gallery, but this Clockwise: Morten Tyldum, director of the film transmitted on 25 June 1967. For two used at CERN by Berners-Lee in 1990 to low-powered microprocessor – made by The Imitation Game, with members of Alan Turing’s family and one of the exhibition’s three-ring Enigma hours viewers travelled the world in write the code for the World Wide Web, Acorn Computers in 1985 – fuelled the cipher machines... Lead Curator Tilly Blyth gives real time, flying across time zones, alongside his server bearing a warning development of the smartphone. one of many TV interviews... An actor re-creates taking in eclectic sights and sounds. ‘Do not power it down!!’ Claude Shannon, the American mathematician and electronic engineer known as ‘the father of information theory’... Visitors using the InfoAge+ VIEW THIS app in the gallery... sciencemuseum.org.uk/animations

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Our visitors adored 3D Printing the Future. We’re still in the early days past employees to relate their experiences of sharing across the Group and aid redevelopment of the station halls. but already we’re seeing

The announcement of a three-year deal the enormous value of NEW LEADER, NEW ROLE, with Siemens as headline sponsor for pooling our intellectual Manchester Science Festival coincided and physical assets with Siemens also partnering with NEW PARTNERS SALLY MACDONALD MSI DIRECTOR the museum to create the innovative Pi Platform for Investigation – a monthly The Director of MSI has faced a hectic year establishing laboratory and playground that has a brilliant future for our Manchester museum enabled 14,000 visitors of all ages to participate in live scientific experiments.

When Sally MacDonald was named the backdrop for Chancellor George Osborne This year has seen a greater range of new Director of the Museum of Science to announce that Manchester, along with organisations than ever coming to MSI & Industry, she could not wait to usher in other cities in the North, is to become a to collaborate on a vibrant programme a new era at the Manchester attraction. ‘northern powerhouse’ to rival London. of events which have included Collider ‘The opportunity to return to my home Prime Minister at the same Lates, #Hooked at Museums at Night, city to lead an organisation with such time held a private meeting elsewhere the Asia Triennial and a Sexology outstanding collections, buildings and in the museum with business leaders, Season with the Wellcome Collection. people is an extraordinary honour,’ she said. local politicians and SMG Director Ian Most significantly, a Memorandum of Blatchford to discuss the Government’s Understanding confirmed the intent After 100 days in the role she talked proposal for an HS3 railway. of the Wellcome Collection and MSI about what excited her most about the to collaborate on an exciting series of iconic museum: fascinating research Six months later the Chancellor returned exhibitions over the next five years, on the history of its site, and of the to launch the European City of Science starting with The Body Electric in 2016. ‘Revolutionary Railroad’; the work of 2016, when he announced a further its ‘amazing volunteers’; the beautiful £3 million investment towards MSI’s *See page 35 for rest of the year’s activity juxtaposition of 3D: Printing the Future new gallery [see page 8]. within the 1830 Warehouse; and the ‘huge buzz’ created by the Manchester Science These funds kick-start transformational Clockwise: Prime Minister David Cameron hosts Festival. She added: ‘I saw science really plans for the entire site and its listed a meeting at MSI with Chancellor George Osborne come to life in a way it never did for me buildings. To tell more of its story, to discuss the proposed HS3 railway... Brain Attack when I was growing up in Manchester.’ University of Manchester PhD student show at MSI’s Pi Platform for Investigation, sponsored by Siemens… Erin Beeston conducting a tour of Erin Beeston is uncovering the operation MSI’s Station Building… Director Sally MacDonald Our museum has also become a prime of Liverpool Road as a rail terminus up with Marcus Coates at his installation The Sounds of Others: A Biophonic Line... Curators Sarah Baines venue for ministerial visits. The industrial until 1975. Today it forms an integral and Deborah Kell at 3D: Printing the Future plus a setting of the Power Hall was a fitting part of the museum and she is seeking printed heart sourced locally

18 19 RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE MAKING FRIENDS IN ACADEMIA AND THE ARTS Creativity and industry expertise drive the agenda at NRM

The National Railway Museum embarked Me Tender’, and 40 Spotters’ Stories on a series of creative, artistic and were selected from 300 submitted after academic collaborations that will raise a public appeal. the game for partnership working with heritage organisations. The touring The museum’s annual Locos in a Different Open for Business exhibition showcased Light event, part of the Illuminating York Magnum photographer Mark Power, festival, featured in the city’s successful whose stunning images of Bombardier bid for UNESCO City of Media Arts status. in Derby and Nissan in Sunderland Kersten England, Chief Executive of City demonstrate that the UK’s transport of York Council, said: ‘The designation industry is still thriving. flies the flag for York’s bid to be the first port of call for media arts in the UK and As centrepiece to its Trainspotting season indeed one of the most creative cities the museum took the bold step of in the world.’ commissioning the contemporary artwork Parallel Tracks from the acclaimed artist The luxury Pullman carriage, Topaz, Andrew Cross [see page 32]. A blend was opened to the public for the of film and curated archives explored first time, as we made the collection the camaraderie of train-watching and even more accessible so visitors can encouraged visitors to linger significantly experience what rail travel was like longer in our changing gallery space. for different classes of passengers. The season was supplemented with an opening weekend Great York Shed Bash, As part of its commitment to curatorial curatorial talks, live theatre performances, excellence NRM appointed Andrew cab access and craft activities. McLean as Head Curator to continue vital scholarship and research into Yorkshire poet and broadcaster the collection. We cemented our long- This year has been a real game-changer. We’ve set Ian McMillan waxed lyrical on ‘epic standing academic partnership with the the bar high for curatorial excellence and have encounters on days wreathed with steam’ University of York through the relaunch positioned ourselves at the very heart of contemporary in his touching ode to trainspotting, ‘Love of the Institute of Railway Studies. debate about the future of railways

PAUL KIRKMAN NRM DIRECTOR

Colin Mellors, the university’s Pro Vice Chancellor (Business and Community), said: ‘York is extremely fortunate to have such a tremendous international asset as NRM located in the city.’ Key leaders and strategists from the rail industry attended the 2014 Annual Dinner Clockwise, above: Public access to the luxury Pullman carriage Topaz... The Director with Lord which launched our new Future Forum: Adonis, who launched our Thought Leadership Thought Leadership at the National forum... Head of Public Programme Tobias Lumb and the Director show off the Heritage Railway Railway Museum, sponsored by Thales Association excellence award for last year’s Mallard and Bombardier. Lord Adonis was the 75 celebrations... Poet Ian McMillan inspired by key speaker on the theme of ‘Where do trainspotting... The Great York Shed Bash railways fit into a wider transport policy?’ Opposite: Professor Colin Mellors and NRM Director Paul Kirkman sign an understanding to relaunch the and further forum events continue to Institute of Railway Studies, witnessed by Professor address challenges facing the industry. Mark Ormrod and Head Curator Andrew McLean

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The National Media Museum is an incredibly important part of cinema geography and heritage in the UK and we will make sure that continues

LYN GOLEBY MANAGING DIRECTOR OF PICTUREHOUSE CINEMAS

supporting the school curriculum. They will help us to build careers in STEM that can take young people to the most extraordinary places – from the depths MAGICAL of the oceans to the new frontiers of space travel.’

MILESTONES A commercial cinema partnership was also launched – Picturehouse at and the internationally significant health National Media Museum – which saw research project Born in Bradford [see FOR the national cinema chain taking over page 37]. Our exhibitions programme has the operation of the three screens at the continued to bring the best of the still and museum, in the heart of UNESCO’s first moving image to our audiences. Highlights BRADFORD City of Film. These are the 300-seat this year include the two Media Space Pictureville (which is able to screen most exhibitions [see page 58] and the summer Serious investments help historic formats and which producer exhibition Nature Camera Action! – about to realise our ambition to Lord Puttnam describes as the ‘best the secrets of making incredible wildlife cinema in the world’), the 100-seat films – which brought in 37,000 visitors. investigate the science Cubby Broccoli Cinema and Europe’s behind sound and vision first IMAX auditorium, currently being Topical displays connecting major re-equipped with a state-of-the-art national events to our unique digital projector and new screen, photography collections included Whilst the National Media Museum has thanks to a loan from DCMS. Landscapes of Le Grand Départ, as part a global outlook and world-leading core of last summer’s Tour de Cinema and collections of the still and moving image, The new Picturehouse partnership was the Yorkshire Festival. This year we it has always been rooted deeply in launched with the northern premiere of released 15 extraordinary ‘unseen’ Bradford and its region. That connection Hockney, a feature-length documentary images of ’s life from has been strengthened by a significant about the life of artist David Hockney, our Daily Herald archive [see page 43]. £1 million investment from Bradford City attended by the director, Randall Wright, Council in the future of the museum’s and members of the artist’s family. His learning programme. SMG confirmed sister Margaret revealed her surprising Clockwise: Launch of the museum’s collaboration with Picturehouse Bradford, when David Hockney’s a further £1 million for the creation of a influence on David’s recent work: ‘I gave family joined the director Randall Wright (front new hands-on interactive gallery in which him a boost to use a computer and to left) for the northern premiere of Hockney... RPS visitors will explore light and sound. get into the digital world. I was using President Derek Birch with Director of the National Media Museum Jo Quinton-Tulloch at Drawn by Photoshop and I showed him it was a Light’s opening... Science magic show by Dr Matt The museum’s Director, Jo Quinton- lot quicker than when he’d tried it years Pritchard at Lates... Children participating in the Nature Camera Action! season of wildlife films, Tulloch, says: ‘These investments signal ago.’ The museum’s partnerships have during which CBeebies broadcaster Andy Day the key roles the museum plays in included the Bradford Science Festival also performed

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makers, hackers and innovators who patients and the chef Heston Blumenthal. visitors using eye-tracking glasses while want nothing more than to help people During her opening speech Professor a Topic Zone featured the Rosetta mission get hands on with hi-tech equipment Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer that landed a probe on a comet. and release their creative genius.’ for England, described the exhibition as ‘wonderful’. Media interest was VIEW THIS At the Science Museum alone, the widespread. BBC Breakfast broadcast antenna.sciencemuseum.org.uk contemporary science team created live from the exhibition, finding much blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk 37 presentations this year – 2 festivals, mileage in a food’s flavour being 10 Topic Zone updates, 7 Live Science influenced by the spoon you use (its Opposite: A workshop during Make. Hack. Do.... displays in the Who Am I? gallery, 5 colour and material prove to be crucial). and Sheffield University engineers demonstrate their swarm of tiny robots that Antenna Lives, 12 adult dialogues, could one day aid agriculture To herald the day when people are exhibition which later transferred to the has the potential to save lives.’ plus daily news blogs. In Antenna quick-turnround displays and This page: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief routinely enhanced with powerful Museum of Science & Industry as part of The Make. Hack. Do. festival invited demonstrations respond to the latest Medical Officer for England, with Jean Franczyk, prosthetics, brain-boosting devices and the Manchester Science Festival, where 6000 visitors to the Science Museum This tally included a mouth-watering science news. These included a set of Deputy Director of the Science Museum, and Ling Lee, Content Developer, at the opening of Cravings superhero-style senses, the Science the format was adapted by drawing on to create electronic instruments from exhibition dedicated to appetite research. sea drones from the National in London... Professor Bob Rastall and researchers Museum’s contemporary science team locally sourced examples of this new vegetables, to build and program their Cravings: Can Your Food Control You? Oceanography Centre, and the unveiling from University of Reading with the artificial gut (Antenna) organised a four-day festival technology. One visitor remarked: ‘Up own robots and try their own 3D printing reveals how the brain, gut-brain and of the Drayson racer – the fastest displayed in Cravings… Exploring biotechnologists’ visions of the future at the You Have Been Upgraded titled You Have Been Upgraded. Here, until now I’ve only associated 3D printing in fun ‘playshops’. Its Content Developer, gut bacteria work together to control lightweight electric car in the world. festival ... Visitors help researchers from UCL 4000 visitors found themselves in a with the art world, whereas it actually Pippa Hough, said: ‘We brought together our desires, with insights from experts, One Live Science experiment saw investigate What Makes You Laugh and Cry? fictional but probable future created by Unlimited Theatre, in collaboration with leading scientists, artists and designers. The ambitious company Unlimited Enhancement Technologies (UNET) had elevated biotechnologists to star status. The challenge posed to the audience was: How do you feel about having your brain and body upgraded, just as we do with computers?

David Robertson, Content Developer, said: ‘This was our most ambitious festival yet. This remarkable collaboration created a spectacular show that saw scientists showcasing provocative research – from the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, from University and Imperial College London.’

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experts conduct live experiments and hands-on workshops in an informal environment. More than 900 visitors EXPERIENCE TOMORROW’S WORLD TODAY took part in a nuclear power event and 1000 visited another on chemistry.

At the National Media Museum a new partnership was forged with the internationally significant health research project Born in Bradford, as its new-look Family Festival was launched at both the museum and Bradford’s City Park. More than 3000 visitors attended over a weekend to take part in science, health and community-focused activities. Born in Bradford is the study of 13,500 children born at between March 2007 and December 2010, whose health is being tracked from pregnancy through childhood and into adult life. It is the largest study into health and well-being of its kind.

Opposite: Insights into family health drew 3000 visitors to the National Media Museum during the long-term NHS research project Born in Bradford This page: TV producers David X Cohen and Al Jean in conversation with maths guru Simon Singh during the event ‘Uncovering the Mathematical Secrets of The Simpsons and Futurama’… A Pedal Power participatory experiment for the Pi Platform for Investigation

The Dana Centre has been the home of It is really very important that we – the experimental science dialogue since its research and commercial community – launch in 2003 and its final programme are out there telling everyone what went out on a high with the aptly named we are.’ Best Festival Ever, a collaboration with Australian theatre company Collaborations enrich our programme Boho Interactive. in the Who Am I? gallery. Particularly powerful perspectives were conveyed In 2011, the University College London in a display about HIV research, co- Environment Institute gave Boho the created with a group of young people challenge of creating a theatre show living with HIV and produced in Live Science is a which tackled climate science. To explore collaboration with the National unique opportunity the related science of complex systems Children’s Bureau. One participant for researchers. As well at the Dana, before it was redeveloped commented: ‘It was a great experience as acquiring an incredible into the research centre which opens this working with you and the others so thank autumn, Science Museum visitors were you for that opportunity. I’ve learnt so number of data, this asked if they had what it takes to create much in just a couple of weeks.’ experience forced me to a music festival in an event that was part seriously think about the theatre, part performance lecture and Pop culture drew big audiences with part board game. ‘It was terrific!’ said ‘Mathematical Secrets of The Simpsons relevance of my research Professor Yvonne Rydin of UCL, one of and Futurama’. This sold-out talk, ANITA MONTAGNA KING’S COLLEGE LONDON the expert contributors. featuring exclusive screen footage, headlined British science author Simon Dana activities such as panel discussions Singh talking with Al Jean and David will be absorbed into the SM programme X Cohen, world-renowned writers to continue airing pertinent policy issues. from those animated phenomena. One recent debate in partnership with the Government Office for Science explored In Manchester, the Museum of Science risk and synthetic biology. Professor Paul & Industry promoted a fresh way to Freemont of Imperial College, one of the showcase the latest science. Under the VIEW THIS speakers, said: ‘The event was excellent. title Pi Platform for Investigation, leading tinyurl.com/lubypk2

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I find working with our many funders inspirational; they are ONE STARTLING GIFT as passionate about science and engineering as we are and want their SETS THE TONE investment to be a true partnership SUE FISHER SMG DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Fundraising is the oxygen of our museum group

Our Group is determined to be the biggest single gallery in the Science We continue to look to new partnerships to members and a growth in patronage. At recognised as the world’s leading Museum, and we are grateful for our develop SMG’s core priorities and enable the NRM Annual Dinner in York transport centre of excellence for engagement supporters’ confidence in us [read us to fuel the public’s passion for science. minister Stephen Hammond addressed with science. Such an ambition must more on page 14]. key strategists from the rail industry. be matched by energetic fundraising We celebrated our indebtedness to key to ensure continued investment in Group Director of Development Sue supporters and advocates at the Science Our visitors across each of the Group’s our work. Accordingly, we created the Fisher says: ‘Funders such as David Museum’s Annual Dinner last May, where museums continue to astound us with Science Museum Foundation, chaired Harding, ARM, BT and Bloomberg the eminent mathematical physicist their generosity. From the visitors by film producer and former SMG genuinely want to increase science and string theorist Professor Robbert who come through our doors, we have Trustee Michael G Wilson, to build more literacy and help us to find exciting Dijkgraaf addressed distinguished guests received more than £2 million in relationships with individuals. Last ways to achieve this. I find working with who included Lord Rees, the Astronomer support of our work. year yielded our largest ever individual our many funders inspirational; they Royal, the Culture Secretary, Sajid Javid, philanthropist’s gift of £5 million towards are as passionate about science and Betty Jackson and Charles Simonyi. For full acknowledgment of all our wonderful donors, please see listings on page 68 a new maths gallery, from David and engineering as we are and want their Outgoing SMG Chairman Dr Douglas Claudia Harding. The Hardings joined the investment to be a true partnership.’ Gurr was appointed a Science Museum Celebrating maths, opposite: David Harding, renowned architect Dame Zaha Hadid Fellow and Trustee Howard Covington Zaha Hadid, Sajid Javid, Ian Blatchford and and Culture Secretary Sajid Javid, when Generous initiatives proved crucial to praised his ‘enthusiasm, energy and Claudia Harding our Director, Ian Blatchford, announced funding plans for new exhibitions, such sheer hard work’. Science Museum Annual Dinner, above: Speaker Robbert Dijkgraaf and, beneath, Michael G Wilson, the news [see page 9]. as the Media Space programme and Lord Rees, Lady Elise and Sir Martin Smith, Cosmonauts which is scheduled to open The success of the Great Gathering and Veronika and Howard Covington… Far right: An impressive collaboration of funders in 2015. Funders have also supported Great Goodbye, sponsored by Hornby, Douglas Gurr and Jean Franczyk and corporate partners made possible research into our collections and at the National Railway Museum has Right: Paul Kirkman presents Hornby’s Nat Southworth with the NRM Arts and Business last October’s opening of Information engagement with diverse communities spurred increased support from the Award… Stephen Hammond speaks at the Age by Her Majesty The Queen. This is and school-age students [see page 39]. corporate sector, especially new NRM Annual Dinner

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celebrated the opening with many events, At the Museum of Science & Industry, To expand our virtual audience for serious from soldering circuits to creating Manchester, an innovative online citizen science, SMG blogs have been integrated Raspberry Pi robots, and the Wikimedia science project to investigate the secret more deeply into each museum’s website. UK team helped visitors to photograph of catchy songs, with the University of Finally, in acknowledgment of the the gallery and share objects (the Science Amsterdam, garnered an extraordinary importance of digital, John Stack joined Museum has also signed an agreement response. By February it had recruited the Group as its first Digital Director. with Google for Street View). 175,000 players across 199 countries.

With the help of , a Science For Nature Camera Action! – the National Museum event about the mathematical Media Museum’s summer exhibition Opposite: Playing Rugged Rovers in Engineer Your influences on the creators of The about the secrets of wildlife film-making Future, also downloadable as an SMG app, as is the Simpsons and Futurama had 25,000 – we asked visitors to upload their own Transmission game views within a day. The museum’s twitter wildlife photos onto Flickr and 500 were Clockwise from left: During the Nature Camera account broke the 450,000 barrier and then added to screens on gallery. More Action! season visitor Tim Garlick uploaded this image of a nut weevil to Flickr... Simon Singh’s the museum started testing a new than 10,000 images and objects were The Simpsons and Futurama event featured on Wi-Fi login page and iBeacon technology, digitised as part of a project to take the Facebook… Newly digitised classic photograph developed with the company Purple National Photography Collection beyond of Victorian royalty by Roger Fenton... A National Media Museum blog expands the audience for Seven, so we may better serve visitors. the walls of the museum. serious science

Even before the Engineer Your Future gallery had been opened by HRH The Prince of Wales, police conducting the royal security sweep of the Science PLAYING UP TO THE Museum were spotted there avidly competing in Rugged Rovers, where the objective is to design a vehicle that can DIGITAL NATIVE navigate farthest across a tricky alien landscape. In its first four months, SMG’s digital transformation is every bit as extraordinary 79,000 people had downloaded the game. as the ambitious physical changes at our museums The exhibition, which runs for three years and aims to inspire the next generation of engineers, is a vivid testament to what digital can offer museums. Visitors can explore a cityscape projected onto a 3D printed set, known as FutureVille. Another interactive game uses a baggage handling system, power grid and a railway network to enable players to design complex delivery systems.

Appropriately enough, the biggest digital event of the year concerned the opening of Information Age by Her Majesty The Queen. Her historic first tweet was retweeted more than 43,000 times, and VIEW THIS youtube.com/user/sciencemuseum favourited a further 47,000 times. Among youtube.com/user/mosimanchester the Information Age apps, Transmission youtube.com/user/NatRailwayMuseum youtube.com/user/nationalmediamuseum had been downloaded 30,000 times in its sciencemuseum.org.uk/games first three months. November’s Lates blog.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk

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much misunderstood hobby. A fascination collaboration with Bradford University with safety on the railways led historian featured a range of contemporary film CHERISHING THE Dr Mike Esbester of the University of screenings, after which discussions Portsmouth to explore the museum’s dealt with such themes as an Afghan archives. Lucky charms, leaping tigers teenager’s refugee status and the 1984 ART OF SCIENCE and bikini-clad women all played a part miners’ strike. in the story of railway safety – as told in Our museums are committed to working the new online exhibition Caution! Railway Nine leading Magnum photographers Safety Since 1913. provided a powerful survey of UK with contemporary artists who challenge manufacturing in Open for Business. cultural boundaries in personal ways National Media Museum Featuring workers from local Bradford The week-long Media and Conflict weavers to modern laboratory researchers, the exhibition launched Science Museum, London document the rubbish generated by the created from Manchester street lamps at our Bradford museum, then locally The UK’s largest ever audio loudspeaker, museum’s visitors and staff over 30 days [see rear inside cover] while indoors a relevant sections toured to each of the a full-size reconstruction of the gigantic in his unique Rubbish Collection. As a single rose disintegrated under 24 lamps other museums in the Group. ‘Denman horn’ from the 1930s, was the visual archive of things we daily throw and a four-screen video studied Taiwan’s centrepiece of a new installation by away, it found value and beauty in waste first leprosy hospital. Aleksander Kolkowski in the Virgin Media – and resulted in novel recycling bins Studio. He explored the 27-foot audio throughout the museum. National Railway Museum dinosaur with a 7-foot-square horn mouth The first Music on Rails festival proved Opposite: The first MOR Music festival at NRM and its quest for audio perfection through Museum of Science & Industry, to be a ‘musical mystery tour’, in saw Plumhall playing in The Director’s Carriage... Artist Andrew Cross presented a film exploring music and the spoken word. ‘Our modern Manchester partnership with MOR Music. Acts trainspotting across the globe ears may have become accustomed to New artworks went on show in the Asia including Beth McCarthy, of BBC’s The This page, from top: Sound Artist in Residence high-fidelity audio and surround sound, Triennial Manchester 2014 – a city-wide Voice, and the Littlemores played in the Aleksander Kolkowski testing his reconstructed but the exponential horn still holds an festival of visual culture celebrating atmospheric Station Hall, as well as a Denman exponential horn from 1929 before it gave daily demonstrations in the Science Museum’s Virgin immersive power of its own,’ he said. Manchester’s diverse communities and moving railway carriage. The focus of Media Studio… Omar the Afghan teenager in Bruce featuring contemporary artists from NRM’s Trainspotting season was the Goodison’s film Leave to Remain, screened during Bradford’s Media and Conflict event… NRM 4-4-0 Another artist, Joshua Sofaer, invited mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. acclaimed artist Andrew Cross whose locomotive No. 563, built in 1893, on loan to the visitors to collect, sort, photograph and Outdoors at MSI an artificial sun was installation Parallel Tracks surveyed this London production of The Railway Children

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The original 1855 sundial from the oldest surviving passenger railway station in the world was one of the more remarkable objects that came to the attention of our conservation team, who favour preservation over restoration to maintain the historical integrity of our objects. Before and after conservation: Oil painting by Sir Francis Grant, 1845, of George Carr Glyn, first Lord Wolverton, The sundial at the Museum of Science Chairman of the London & Birmingham Railway & Industry had suffered from extensive weathering and excessive polishing. Two portraits in the National Railway The ‘Bouncing Ball’ image by Berenice Conservator Fran Keating said: ‘It was Museum collection were conserved Abbott was covered by the residue from a time-consuming process to dislodge by external contractors using funds a gummed label that had been partly the accumulated build-up of brass raised at the museum’s Annual Dinner. removed in the past. This residue was polish, but I was able to reveal the Hubert Herkomer’s 1869 painting of very delicately removed to reveal the original layer of black paint of the railway manager William Cawkwell book cover image. numbers on the dial as well as some was conserved by David Everingham. really lovely engraved detailing.’ The treatment included eliminating SMG contributes to research into new distortions. Francis Downing treated a conservation methods and materials, On the beautiful globe showing undersea large portrait of the LNWR Chairman and the treatment of objects aims to cable routes, now in Information Age George Carr Glyn, painted by Sir Francis remove or stabilise the effects of physical [see page 10], the cable routes themselves Grant in 1845, which involved removing or chemical degradation, as well as were invisible. The Wroughton conservators unsympathetic overpainting. guarding against deterioration. were trained by a specialist to delicately remove the old discoloured varnish. At the National Media Museum the book Kirsten Strachan from the Wroughton cover of Physics by the Physical Science team said: ‘It was invaluable to gain Study Committee was conserved for specialist training for a large object the upcoming exhibition Revelations. containing varnished paper, a material we don’t normally work with.’ It started with a 3D printed bust of Happy Sexology Season event, partnered by the grew by 4 cm whilst circling the Earth Mondays icon Bez and a live DJ set by Wellcome Collection. Large enthusiastic and expressing surprise as a Canadian Manchester band Elbow. Never before in crowds of adults were enticed by offers that the correct term for the people of its eight-year history has the Manchester of tonque-tingling aphrodisiacs and the Manchester is Mancunian: ‘That sounds Science Festival, proudly produced by the science behind speed dating. like an alien to me!’ Museum of Science & Industry, been so trendy. And scientific, too. Complete with The year’s other major attractions This spring saw the opening of The industry experts, comedy, workshops, included Pedal Power, showcasing Innovation Race: Manchester’s Makers debates and movies, 140 unique events Manchester as the home of British Join the First World War. Drawing from across Greater Manchester attracted cycling on the 20th anniversary of its extensive company archives, the 98,000 visitors. For 11 days cultural velodrome, and deploying dynamic curatorial team created a family-friendly boundaries merged, from Marcus display methods to generate a sense exhibition about the role of Mancunian Coates’s premiere of his audiovisual of motion. Eight historically important innovation in securing victory on the installation The Sounds of Others: A bicycles from our collection were Western Front. Biophonic Line, to an exhibition on dust revived by the conservation team, while VIEW THIS and artist Lucy Burscough’s creative 100,000 visitors could pit themselves manchestersciencefestival.com exploration of vision. against Olympic greats on the static time-trial bike. From top: MSI hosted Marcus Coates and his Biophonic Line art commission during the Museums at Night is an addition to our Manchester Science Festival... The Wellcome Lates programme aimed at adults, as Singing spaceman and YouTube Collection Sexology Late... Astronaut Chris Benjamin Regel treating a 30-inch terrestial globe Hadfield obliged with a selfie during his Radio 5 showing telegraph cable routes, made by W & A K we experiment with evening opening. sensation Chris Hadfield wowed a broadcast... Painter Lucy Burscough’s exhibition Johnston Ltd, 1865–1920... Right, the cleaned object One of the most popular proved to be a Year 10 audience, explaining how he celebrated 200 years of research into vision

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WE’VE CHANGED LIVES IN RECORD NUMBERS The Science Museum Group strives to be a national and international centre of excellence for informal science learning. The work of our talented explainer and outreach teams Visitors to the Museum of Science & Industry participating in a physics experiment at the continues to attract record numbers of young newly created Pi Platform for Investigation series of events. This unique lab and playground space people, their families and teachers to our enables scientists to share their experiences of science with a diverse audience of all ages museums and events

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HRH The Prince of Wales meeting Industrial Cadets at the opening of Engineer Your Future, the Science Museum’s latest interactive exhibition… Below: Tasting chillies in an Enterprising Science family event TACKLING THE SKILLS GAP

In December, HRH The Prince of Wales visited the Science Museum to officially open the Engineer Your Future exhibition, which aims to inspire hundreds of INSPIRATIONAL NEW thousands of 11- to 15-year-olds to discover their potential to shape the world we live in. Visitors are challenged SHOWS AND FESTIVALS to take on a series of interactive games that test some of the skills engineers use every day. The exhibition has been This year 109,000 people attended shows light, electric power and the manufacture a huge hit, welcoming 127,000 visits in or workshops delivered by the SMG of First World War munitions. At the the first three months alone. It is part of outreach team at schools and festivals National Railway Museum new interactive the Science Museum’s pledge to support across the country and the globe. And workshops have been a big hit with Action! exhibition. In October the the industry-led Your Life campaign, our talented explainers make sure that primary school groups, exploring the museum also hosted the Born in launched in the museum last year, learning is fun for each of the 595,000 history and science behind the success Bradford family festival, welcoming to boost the number of young people people who visited our museums as of Stephenson’s locomotive Rocket as 3500 visitors. The learning team studying STEM subjects. Business part of booked education groups. This well as the engineering challenge of coordinated a weekend of activities to Secretary said: ‘From includes a new UK museum record railway-track construction. highlight some of the themes of this designing the latest smartphones to in London with the Science Museum important medical research study. building the next Mars rover, there are King’s is delighted to be partnering with the Science welcoming 452,000 people in school During the summer holidays at the many exciting career opportunities for Museum Group on the Enterprising Science project. VIEW THIS and educational group visits. National Media Museum 21,000 visitors mosi.org.uk/ambassadors a 21st-century engineer. That’s what The collaboration is developing new ways to address an enjoyed a special series of STEM-focused this exhibition at the Science Museum is age-old problem – namely how to improve young people’s Exciting new explainer shows at the workshops, talks and demonstrations From above: A Building Bridges family event weekend all about and ... I hope that this inspires at the Science Museum aimed at raising students’ engagement with science Museum of Science & Industry explore developed by the learning team to science literacy... The Danger, High Voltage! show more talented young people to take up topics as varied as UV and fluorescent accompany the popular Nature Camera demonstrating electricity and magnetism a career in engineering.’ PROFESSOR LOUISE ARCHER ENTERPRISING SCIENCE PROJECT DIRECTOR, KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

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INFORMAL LATES BECOME A NATIONAL EVENT SCIENCE LEARNING DELIVERS SERIOUS RESULTS

In partnership with academic researchers at King’s College London and Sheffield Hallam University, the Science Museum Group is leading the field in developing the most effective ways to have a lasting with an international panel of speakers, Evaluation conducted to date by Sheffield positive influence on the attitude and including Professor Mike Savage (LSE), Hallam University within the Building aspirations of young people towards Professor Jonathan Osborne (Stanford), Bridges research project reveals that science learning and careers. Professor Kevin Crowley (Pittsburgh), school outreach activities, museum and Professor Irene Rahm (Montreal). visits and family science events can have The monthly Lates evenings at the As part of the five-year Enterprising a really positive impact on students’ Science Museum this year attracted Science research partnership with King’s Enterprising Science is also shaping interest in science and development of 45,000 young adults who enjoy the wide College London and BP, the SMG learning the development of new course scientific literacy. Over the past year variety of topical science entertainment, team is working with disadvantaged modules and resources for the highly the SMG learning team has worked with events and talks. Among event themes social groups and schools across the UK successful Talk Science teacher CPD nearly 600 students and their families as that included physics, psychology, to evidence the most effective ways that courses that continue to be delivered part of Building Bridges, with a further informatics and engineering, it was museum visits and learning experiences nationwide by our learning team from 4000 students taking part in the project the science of sexuality that drew the can improve the science knowledge, each of our SMG sites and other at schools in Reading and five London biggest crowds. skills and contacts, or ‘science capital’, national science centres. Within the partner boroughs. Science & Industry there was a special stand-up Robin Ince entertained a packed of young people. Enterprising Science past year Talk Science training has So popular are these events in London #HookedonMusic Lates disco as part of crowd whilst being ‘In and Out of His Mind’. Above: The Science Museum outreach team was the focus of a research seminar been delivered to 516 teachers staging It Takes Guts in Hong Kong to explore that we have introduced similar evenings Manchester Science Festival. hosted by the Science Museum last July nationally and internationally. the digestive system across the North. The National Media VIEW THIS Museum hosted its first Lates evening Three sold-out Lates took place during sciencemuseum.org.uk/educators sciencemuseum.org.uk/onlinescience as part of a packed programme of the Manchester run of Collider, aimed Award-winning STEMNET team activities for the ‘Let’s Get Digital’- at adults with a penchant for particles. From above: Ribald fun at MSI’s Wellcome Collection It has been an award-winning year themed Bradford Science Festival Professor Jeff Forshaw enthralled Sexology Lates event… At the National Media for the learning team at the Museum in October, and at the Museum of visitors on his latest book, and acclaimed Museum the Lates theme is ‘Let’s Get Digital’ of Science & Industry (pictured right), who run the largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Early Birds Mathematics Network (STEMNET) In trying to be a truly accessible museum, we run Early Birds events Ambassador programme outside for families with children on the autistic spectrum and these have London, with more than 1000 so far attracted a thousand visitors in the hour before the Science inspirational Ambassadors across Museum officially opens. The SIGNtific programme for hearing- northwest England. Two of our impaired or deaf visitors grows in popularity and we have also talented team of volunteers won created events for families with members who are visually impaired coveted national STEMNET awards or blind – an interactive astronaut training session, ‘Backpacking to for their hard work and achievements. Mars’, revealed what it would take to get there. The Information Age gallery has also introduced regular object handling sessions.

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Science isn’t a word most people associate CHURCHILL’S CURIOUS OBSESSION with my great-grandfather but it was a passion The 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill’s death prompted intriguing RANDOLPH CHURCHILL responses across the Science Museum Group SPEAKING AT THE EXHIBITION PREVIEW

In London, the Science Museum historians who had collaborated with the to Hanborough in Oxfordshire, close to celebrated Britain’s great Second World museum, adding ‘a very special mention Churchill’s final resting place. Jim Lester, War leader with Churchill’s Scientists, an in despatches for Allen Packwood and his the fireman who stoked the boiler that exhibition that explores his little-known team at the Churchill College Archives’. day in 1965 said: ‘We have great history, enthusiasm for science. Rarely seen railway history, and this is part of that significant objects and archive material To mark the 50th anniversary of Churchill’s railway history.’ [See back cover] reveal surprising insights about his state funeral, SMG Director Ian Blatchford enormous wartime R&D programme, and Dame Mary attended a private In Bradford, the National Media Museum powered by 20-odd hand-picked ‘boffins’. Churchill family memorial service at released some rarely seen photographs Their efforts on, for instance, radar, Westminster Abbey, along with the Prime of Churchill from the Daily Herald nuclear weapons and nutrition spurred Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. newspaper archive. Comprising 3 million a scientific renaissance to give Britain photographs, the archive is a fascinating the winning edge on the battlefield. At 08.00 on the same morning, Churchill’s photographic record of national and Later they kick-started postwar train from the state funeral was unveiled international events spanning half the successes in fields from molecular at the National Railway Museum in York. 20th century. An online display offers biology to radio astronomy. Churchill Before a crowd of media and project insight into many aspects of Churchill’s was also the Prime Minister who supporters, Churchill’s Final Journey was life, from his days in the military, including Opposite: The funeral train reassembled at York for the Churchill’s Final Journey exhibition appointed Frederick Lindemann as the completed with the reunion of the newly the highs and lows of his political career, This page: Great-grandson Randolph Churchill with the UK’s first chief scientific adviser. restored Battle of Britain class steam family pictures, his fondness for animals, rotating-mirror high-speed camera that filmed atomic-bomb locomotive No. 34051 Winston Churchill and even boyhood portraits collected tests… From left at the opening of Churchill’s Scientists, historian At the opening event Sir Nicholas with the restored parcel van that carried retrospectively for his obituary. Sir David Cannadine, Project Curator Andrew Nahum, SMG Chairman Dame Mary Archer, Churchill’s grandson Sir Nicholas Soames, Churchill’s grandson, praised the coffin, plus luxury Pullman carriage Soames and Science Museum Director Ian Blatchford... Vintage this ‘exceptional and important’ Lydia, repainted in its original shade of photograph of Churchill from the Daily Herald collection... Science VIEW THIS Museum display showing John Kendrew’s 1957 rod model of exhibition. SMG Chairman Dame Mary umber and cream. In 1965 the train had sciencemuseum.org.uk/churchill myoglobin, the first protein resolved by X-ray crystallography; Archer paid tribute to the scholars and taken the family from Waterloo station nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/unseen-churchill alongside, a brain-scan monitor inspired by wartime radar

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Volunteering is crucial to the Science Museum Group as we rely on hundreds of people who dedicate thousands of hours of their time to improving the visitor experience. After seven years at the National Railway Museum, Matthew Hick has taken up the role of Group-wide Volunteer Development Manager and he will be implementing standards and systems to ensure consistency across our volunteer workforce.

Matthew has also become chair of the Heritage Volunteering Group and York’s

selected objects such as a Morse Members of the Royal Photographic telegraph sounder, a collection of real Society have teamed up to check data telegraphs and fibreoptic cable. and create much-needed records for the thousands of photographs in the Volunteer Amit Patel observed how collection, as well as scanning images visitors walk away with a real sense of from the 1800s to the present day. connection with the stories that inspired the gallery’s creation, and said: ‘For us as Michael Terwey, Head of Collections volunteers, it opens our eyes to see how and Exhibitions at the museum, the objects on display have transformed said: ‘Volunteers are very much part people’s lives.’ of everyday life in many different departments here, including collections, In Manchester, the Museum of Science exhibitions and learning.’ During the & Industry collaborates in Inspiring Bradford Animation Festival they look Futures, a regional volunteer training after special guests and answer queries programme. The course, developed for from film-goers. Volunteers also help those at risk of social exclusion, uses deliver the family programme during Centre for Voluntary Service, which an awful lot of other people spend a lot MSI’s unique collection as a stimulus for school holidays, some of the museum’s means the NRM plays a key role in of time here.’ Gordon Reed was awarded developing interpersonal and customer busiest times of year. volunteering nationally. The provision the RailStaff Lifetime Achievement service skills. As a result, new volunteer- of tours and a partnership with York Award in recognition of his 65 years on led object handling roles have been VIEW THIS Theatre Royal has grown the total the railways – 25 of which have been created. Thomas Litherland said: ‘It has nrm.org.uk/volunteer number of hours volunteered to 34,000, volunteering at NRM. been a challenge for me to overcome blog.nrm.org.uk of which 4000 come from home-based my shyness with meeting people. I’ve volunteers who live as far afield as At the Science Museum in London, the gained valuable work experience and Clockwise: Cataloguing in the Gandolfi Room at Australia and America. number of volunteers who greet our confidence in sharing.’ the National Media Museum... Science Museum visitors has increased to 800 with the volunteer Alexandra Russell giving visitors a tour of the Flight gallery... At Shildon, a steam driver David Thomas, a volunteer with 35 years’ opening of the Information Age gallery, Volunteers in Bradford document and experience with volunteers Fred Ramshaw and service who was awarded a British where for the first time we offer object digitise parts of the National Media Peter Shields... MSI volunteer Gloria Harter ready to advise… Awards went to NRM volunteers David Empire Medal, said modestly: ‘I feel as handling sessions. A bespoke station Museum archive and enhance access to Thomas and boilersmith Gordon Reed, here though it’s more than I deserve because invites visitors to get hands on with the collection of media-related materials. aboard City of Truro

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We have a massive renewal programme aimed at getting WELCOME TO OUR NEW FACES more of our collection on display. New installations will cover medicine, Five newcomers have been appointed to key roles within the Group. agriculture, aviation and space We asked each: What’s the one thing you can’t wait to do? IAN BLATCHFORD DIRECTOR, SMG

Sally MacDonald Kate Bush DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY HEAD OF PHOTOGRAPHY, IN MANCHESTER SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP Sally loves MSI’s inspirational collections In a newly created role Kate is leading a and aims to develop its reputation as a programme of photography exhibitions museum at the cutting edge of science. for Media Space at the Science Museum She has deep connections to Manchester, and the National Media Museum and is having grown up there, and began her developing a touring programme. Kate career curating the collections at the has curated successful exhibitions city’s art gallery. Most recently she was at the Barbican and judged leading a director at University College London. competitions such as the Turner Prize and the Hasselblad Award. I can’t wait to open our planned exhibition on graphene in 2016, The opportunity to develop a major a flagship event for Manchester as new destination for photography European City of Science. It’s a lovers in the heart of this vibrant museum challenging subject, but I feel sure that is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and our curators, working with Manchester’s I can’t wait to start work on the next Nobel prize-winning scientists and major show – a retrospective of the exceptional artists, are going to create award-winning American photographer something really extraordinary. Alec Soth, opening 6 October.

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Tom O’Leary DIRECTOR OF LEARNING, SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP Tom will lead the Group’s plans to bring science alive for the next generation of innovators in thrall to science and technology. He was previously Head of Public Engagement and Learning at the Houses of Parliament, where he drove a significant expansion in learning provision.

The extent and quality of the learning activity created by the Science Museum Group is impressive. What I intend to focus on straight away is to ensure that informal learning establishes an increased profile and presence to reflect not only the existing achievements, which are unrivalled in the UK, but also huge further potential.

Andrew McLean John Stack HEAD CURATOR, NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM, YORK DIGITAL DIRECTOR, SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP In a new role, Andrew is responsible As the first Digital Director at the for managing the museum’s diverse Group, John will ensure SMG websites collection, which includes high-profile and games harness creative and locomotives such as Mallard and technological developments in digital Flying Scotsman. Andrew has 20 years’ media. John joins us after ten years experience among a diverse range of at Tate where he was responsible for historic collections, many of international setting and delivering the digital strategy significance, and has had a keen interest and overseeing its well-known website. in railways from an early age.

Digital technologies are The rise of railways changed the transforming our audiences. We world, harmonising time and will increasingly engage with our visitors facilitating football leagues across the through smartphones, games, websites, nation. I relish harnessing the potential multimedia and more. With 3 billion of the world’s finest collection to impact people globally now online, the potential on our visitors and inspire the next to extend the reach and impact of our generation of engineers at a time when world-class collections and learning Britain’s railways are undergoing a programmes is now vast. remarkable renaissance.

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The exhibition team has done a great job of capturing the excitement, awe and wonder of the LHC and physics

PROFESSOR BRIAN COX ON COLLIDER

Group ambition to share expertise. So rather than waiting for our London exhibition 3D: Printing the Future to close, SMG HITS we shared all of the digital files with our Manchester museum, from basic content schemes to full exhibition scripts, THE ROAD graphics and fabrication drawings. The northern team then sourced all the physical elements for the exhibition, by Our new Blueprint Pack will printing these themselves and also by enable SMG exhibitions to be building partnerships with local industry and sponsors. replicated across the world SMG is building on this success by creating a Blueprint Pack of the 3D From smashing particles to smashing exhibition for venues outside the Clockwise: At the 21st Bradford Animation Festival, celebrity guests Joanna Quinn and Claire Jennings... Charles Cecil visitor target numbers, all expectations Group, believed to be the first of its talking in Pictureville... Aardman’s Peter Lord have been exceeded by the tour of kind. Blueprints for our contemporary Collider, our bespoke exhibition evoking science exhibitions will include design Since 1995 Bradford Animation Festival The festival also welcomed Charles Cecil Lifetime Achievement award. Claire has the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. files, content scheme, script, teacher (BAF) has been attracting the biggest MBE (founder of Revolution Games and produced acclaimed animated titles Following its transfer from the Science resources, press and marketing and brightest talent from the worlds creator of the Broken Sword series); Colin such as the BAFTA award-winning Museum to the Museum of Science & materials and more. Venues will be able of animation, video games and special Graham from global games developer feature film Wallace & Gromit: The Industry in Manchester where nearly to choose to replicate the original display, effects, and this year was no exception. Ubisoft’s Montreal studio (animation Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005). 16,000 people came through the doors, depart from the original, or scale it up as TV favourite Morph made one of the director for last year’s record-breaking Collider moved on to Paris and attracted space allows. The Blueprint Pack concept star appearances at the 21st festival at Watch_Dogs game); Vivien Halas, The six-day festival attracted more an audience of 190,000 in the first half will enable our meticulously researched the National Media Museum. Morph, daughter of Joy Batchelor and John than 9000 students, industry figures of its run at the Palais de la découverte. intellectual property to be developed in alongside his creator Peter Lord, Halas, the directing team behind the and family visitors. As always, it In Liverpool, the tour of Only in England new directions. co-founder of Aardman Animations UK’s first animated feature, Animal Farm culminated in the BAF awards, at the Walker Art Gallery was projected (Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and (1954); and the celebrated award-winning celebrating the best in new animated to reach 60,000 visitors during its Touring Exhibitions Manager Gemma Arthur Christmas) treated a packed-out French director and writer Michel Ocelot. films from around the world, with four-month run. Levett says: ‘Our touring programme is Pictureville Cinema to a behind-the- 114 international titles in competition. about making partnerships across the Top: The Collider exhibition opening in Paris with scenes look at the award-winning BAF 2014 focused on discussions led by The world seems to be clamouring for world. It’s about getting our science out President of Universcience and former astronaut studio and the team behind some of women working in animation and video VIEW THIS Claudie Haigneré, Director General of UNESCO nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/baf science-rich exhibitions and this new to a wide audience, and highlighting Irina Bokova and SMG Director Ian Blatchford... the UK’s best-loved animated film and games. producer Claire nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/biff touring strategy derives from our cross- SMG as an international brand.’ The blueprint brochure television productions. Jennings received a tribute and the nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/widescreen

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While conventional conferences usually have crowded schedules, we had time to even… think!

PROFESSOR KARIN BIJSTERVELD UNIVERSITY OF MAASTRICHT, KEY PARTICIPANT IN RECENT WORKSHOPS

archive television programmes whilst these digital files remain on their owners’ sites, thus avoiding costly negotiations A PASSIONATE COMMITMENT over rights. Tim Boon, Head of the Research & Public TO RESEARCH History Department, has also been one of the project team led by Dr Helen Graham (University of Leeds) asking The Group’s diverse collection of 7.3 million objects is an ‘How should decisions about heritage be open invitation for serious scholarship made? Co-designing a research project’. In this study of democratic heritage, the Science Museum hosted an investigation Opposite: ‘Pararchive’ project led by Simon Popple The subtle relationships between music Connecting research and communities into participatory collecting of musical This page, from top: David Toop presenting a Music and science was one of the topics explored Representatives from across SMG and instruments. The project culminated and Silence workshop at the Royal College of recently by our Research & Public History other major UK museums, galleries, in ‘Synth Bingo’ at a Lates evening, and Music... Gallery view of noise abatement exhibition in the Science Museum, June 1935… ‘Synth Bingo’ Department to advance understanding libraries, archives and heritage the presentation of proposals to the Lates event... ‘Connected Communities’ workshop and provide future exhibitions with organisations gathered at the museum in Museum’s Collecting Board. facilitated by Keri Facer and Helen Graham scholarly support. February for a special workshop funded by the AHRC. Organised in conjunction The award of an Arts & Humanities with Professor Keri Facer of Bristol Research Council (AHRC) grant on University, the day-long event explored ‘Music, Noise and Silence’ enabled us to the special role of museums as places run a series of three workshops bringing to explore community engagement with together scholars from across the world heritage. Several heritage organisations, to explore the interrelationships of music, including SMG, have benefited from science and technology since the 18th funding under the AHRC’s ‘Connected century. This project also illustrates our Communities’ funding stream led by remit to foster academic research, in Professor Facer. this case on the complex interrelations of science, technology and the arts. SMG has been an active partner in ‘Pararchive’, one of the projects funded to In parallel, the Science Museum develop digital aspects of the ‘Connected arranged a series of musical events. Communities’ theme. Under this project, The latest of these, in April 2015, was a led by Dr Simon Popple (University of staging of Steve Reich’s rarely seen work Leeds), a web portal is being developed Three Tales, in conjunction with Dr Robert with the help of several community Bud’s AHRC-funded fellowship on the heritage groups. This portal will enable theme of applied science. Reich’s video amateur historians to build online opera ponders the Hindenburg disaster, narratives expressing their passion for the Bikini Atoll atom-bomb tests and history. The site is cleverly designed Dolly the cloned sheep. to include images and excerpts from CONTINUED 52 53 RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE

Revolution. Along with her supervisor James Sumner, Erin curated a bespoke tour for the Manchester Science Festival A PASSIONATE COMMITMENT TO RESEARCH 2014, focusing on the area’s relevance to the world’s first recognisable inter-city railway.

The Archives 2.0 conference at the National Media Museum in November explored the challenges posed by the acquisition of visual archives by cultural institutions. An audience exceeding 100 delegates enjoyed presentations by international speakers visiting from Poland, Estonia, Portugal and elsewhere.

Last September, NRM joined in Researchers’ Night, a Europe-wide celebration of the power of research. A team of our doctoral students and staff gave after-hours access to the museum, with special presentations on their fields of enquiry, from ambulance trains in the First World War to the Victorian fascination with illustrations of railway tunnels, by way of the railways’ fascinating role in food transport.

The well-trodden search for longitude about the history, communication and This page: In Bradford, the Archives 2.0 conference remains ripe with controversy, as presentation of science has been achieved.’ explored ways of saving the past… Thomas Spain at NRM where he is researching food transport issue two of the new Science Museum distribution in Britain Group Journal confirms. The historian The past year has also seen the Opposite, clockwise: The SMG e-journal’s second Professor Simon Schaffer assesses publication of new books by our staff: issue... Recently published books by Tilly Blyth, Ben the five-year Cambridge University/ Ben Russell’s James Watt: Making the Russell and Peter Morris... Jacob Ward and Rachel Boon, doctoral students exploring the history of the National Maritime Museum study World Anew and Peter Morris’s The GPO Research Stations... NRM curator Alison Kay at re-evaluating the whole enterprise. Matter Factory: A History of the Chemistry Making the Connection… Doctoral student Alison Rees, who is exploring 20th-century train interiors in Britain The tension between horology and Laboratory. Tilly Blyth edited Information astronomy is examined separately by Age, the catalogue to our prestigious Professor Jim Bennett in his analysis of new gallery. the relationship between 18th-century instrument-makers John Harrison and A nationwide resource for research James Short. Each of the Group’s museums has a dedicated facility to help researchers Enjoying fully open access and peer explore our collections. The Archives review, our e-journal reached 2000 Centre at the Museum of Science & readers in its first year, and a high Industry has particularly rich holdings standard for online scholarship has representing the scientific and been maintained through publication of industrial heritage of Manchester high-quality images, as well as sound and the Northwest. and video. The authors are a mix of established academics, bright young Who was Mr Green? Where did he live? students and museum professionals Why was he so important to the site? such as Science Museum curators Ali These are some of the questions our Boyle and Harry Cliff who expand on the doctoral student Erin Beeston is asking use of theatre in our mould-breaking as part of her research into the history exhibition about CERN. of Liverpool Road station, now the site of MSI. Her research is constantly Editor Kate Steiner says: ‘Our ambition unearthing new material to illuminate the VIEW THIS to be a new voice in conversations site’s crucial role during the Industrial journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk

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involving a partnership with Picturehouse encounter by a member of the events to deliver the film programme. In London team led to a conversation about hiring Thanks so much we introduced a trial period of evening secure runways, which SMG happens for making last night’s screenings in the IMAX at the Science to have at our Wroughton airfield; more screening go so smoothly. Museum, showing the blockbuster film than £300,000 of income has been You are all true professionals Interstellar. The 70mm film was seen by generated to date, with profits invested 18,000 people and exceeded its target back into the Group. and it showed in the by 250%. London hosted other special choreography guests throughout the year including The Energy Show from Science Museum

EAN CARR VISUAL EFFECTS SOCIETY the RAF Reds, who launched a new film Live performed to sell-out audiences in in the Red Arrows 3D experience to London and then toured for the first time celebrate their 50th display season. to 35 places across England and Wales. The show earned the Mail on Sunday’s Critic’s The new Dining Car Restaurant and other Choice, with the claim ‘This is what cafés at the National Railway Museum in science lessons should be like: a blast!’ York continued to gain positive attention in national awards. With the launch of Enterprises found new audiences with the stunning Countess of York, offering our first pop-up retail store at Bluewater afternoon tea and private fine dining in a in Kent. By bringing the Group’s brands to beautifully re-created railway restaurant the UK’s fourth-largest shopping centre, carriage, plus a new outdoor terrace the store served almost 15,000 customers behind the Deep Blue Diner in London, during Christmas, generating sales of there’s hope for even more awards for £250,000. At the Museum of Science & SMG’s catering experiences. Industry, Manchester, the refurbished shop enjoyed a significant uplift in sales Being entrepreneurial is about seizing from many new ranges including the I opportunities when they arise. A chance Love Manchester bespoke design line. This financial year also saw record online sales across the Group, up 20%.

Nevertheless, Mason stresses: ‘Nothing SEIZE THE Enterprises does is solely about making money. If we can have great cafés, shops, films and other experiences we can also DAY AND have a lot of fun enhancing a visit to our great museums.’

Opposite: The Countess of York restaurant car at HAVE FUN NRM in York… A Science Museum IMAX screening of Interstellar was launched by an exclusive talk with Oliver James, Eugénie von Tunzelmann, Prestige attractions and Oscar-winner Paul Franklin and Roger Highfield This page: Science Museum pop-up shop at entrepreneurial flair have Bluewater shopping centre... The Energy Show... RAF Red Arrows pilots launch a new cockpit- set new commercial records viewpoint 3D film in London’s Fly Zone

After two record-breaking years of effort to make the Group more entrepreneurial in the face of Government cutbacks, new projects and partnerships have been added to our portfolio by Enterprises, the Group’s commercial wing. ‘We have and will continue to develop new commercial ventures,’ explained Sam Mason, Commercial Director. ‘Some have done very well, although not every plan has come to fruition in the way that we expected. That is the very nature of being entrepreneurial, where the risks are high but so are the rewards, of which there have been many in a packed year.’

Our cinema offer at the National Media Museum underwent radical changes

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As a medium, photography is Joan Fontcuberta: Stranger Than Fiction indispensable for communicating was named one of ’s top ideas about science, technology and ten photography exhibitions of 2014 industry, as is increasingly evident in our internationally. In a collaboration with displays and publications. It is affirmed the Museo Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, by the appointment of Kate Bush as Barcelona, the Catalan photographer’s the Group’s first Head of Photography fantasies proved a truly intriguing [more on page 47], who says: ‘We have proposition for our adult audiences and an extraordinary collection which during their three-month transfer to demands to be better known.’ The age- Bradford continued to receive positive old tension between aesthetic beauty coverage in the national media. and techniques developed for scientific study has culminated in the Media Space The Virgin Media Studio is a separate, exhibition Revelations: Experiments in intimate gallery at Media Space where, Photography, which contrasts rare images following a 40-year embargo, we were from the 19th-century pioneers with pleased to display Nick Hedges’ photographs contemporary art practitioners’ work. from our collection and commissioned by Shelter. This hard-hitting exhibition, Make The elegant Media Space gallery was Life Worth Living, was extended after created at the Science Museum to proving a crowd-puller. provide London with a 525-square-metre Below: Kate Bush, Head of Photography, and Dame showcase for gems from the national This year’s unique experience of a Mary Archer, Chairman of SMG, at the opening of Revelations in Media Space collections housed in Bradford’s National lifetime has been Drawn by Light, an Media Museum (NMeM). The successful unparalleled selection of 200 magnificent Clockwise: Talbot ‘mousetrap’ cameras in Drawn by Light... Trustee Lord Grade and curator Greg Hobson inaugural exhibition featuring Tony Ray- works from the Royal Photographic with Joan Fontcuberta at his exhibition Stranger Jones and Martin Parr, Only in England, Society archives held by the NMeM, Than Fiction... Mark Power at the Open for Business exhibition in York... Nick Hedges at Make Life Worth transferred to Bradford last spring, introduced by three of the world’s oldest Living in the Virgin Media Space... Ori Gersht with his while the second Media Space exhibition, images dating from 1827, made by work at Revelations: Experiments in Photography

Niépce. Again shown in both London and medical correspondent Fergus Walsh the exhibition Open for Business threw Bradford, this compelling exhibition also said the 2014 entries were ‘both fresh light on the vibrancy of British travels to Mannheim, Germany, in 2017. technically brilliant and visually striking’ manufacturing through the eyes of nine and the 2015 awards have received photographers from the renowned To mark the 150th anniversary of similarly impressive reviews. Magnum agency. The full exhibition arguably Manchester’s most famous opened at the National Media Museum engineer, Sebastian de Ferranti, the This year the National Media Museum before other Group museums received Museum of Science & Industry released acquired 104 photographs by acclaimed selected displays which capture unseen images from its archive of a Irish photographer Bob Carlos Clarke workplaces as diverse as foundries, young Ferranti and his family. for the National Photography Collection, shipyards, assembly lines, milliners, including iconic images of Keith Richards, animation studios and research MSI confirmed its role as the northern Marco Pierre White and Rachel Weisz laboratories. The UK photographers home to the annual Wellcome Image [see page 65]. included Stuart Franklin, David Hurn, Awards, which celebrate scientific Peter Marlow, Martin Parr, Mark Power wonders in breathtaking detail. BBC To strengthen a spirit of collaboration, and Chris Steele-Perkins.

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SMG’S A PARTY GLOBAL WITH STEAM REACH ENGINES

Extending our influence both in the museum has been used in a Sciences General Assembly at the In September 2014 the National Railway out by our team of staff, trainees and internationally is central to multi-million-pound campaign designed Science Museum (co-hosted with the Museum at Shildon celebrated the tenth volunteers has been comprehensive,’ the new dynamism of the to reach 250 million people in the United Royal College of Surgeons and the anniversary of its opening as County said Richard Pearson, the Workshop and States, France and Germany. Wellcome Collection). Durham’s only national museum. A Rail Operation Manager who supervised Science Museum Group. special steam gala brought together the delicate restoration over three Here’s a cross section of As the reach of our brand grows, so SMG’s world-class outreach team locomotives representing 100 years months. ‘We had hoped to retain some our worldwide activity too does the strength of our strategic travelled to Ireland, Italy, Gibraltar and of railway history and attracted 6000 of the original timber, but unfortunately relationship with countries such as Brazil Hong Kong, delivering STEM shows and visitors. Anthony Coulls, Senior Curator we had to start afresh to make sure the and France. The most tangible example workshops to children as well as teacher of Rail Vehicles, who has worked at the coach looked its best for display.’ One sign of our increasing international of SMG’s more expansive approach came training. These reached 15,000 people at museum since it opened, described the reach came when the Science Museum when our Collider exhibition transferred schools, community groups, museums event as ‘a birthday party with steam We also bade farewell to George was placed at the heart of a major from MSI in Manchester to the Palais de and festivals overseas. engines’. He added: ‘I remember when Muirhead as Museum Manager, who campaign to market London to the rest la découverte in Paris, at the start of the museum was being built. People retired after 11 highly successful years of the world. Among other significant a three-year tour to Europe, Asia The Science Museum also starred in the were sceptical and convinced that it at Shildon, to return to his research on cultural attractions, it was invited by and Australia. Government’s campaign to showcase the wouldn’t be a success, but it is.’ the history of the Northeast. He saw London & Partners to offer a once-in-a- creative industries of the UK by taking visitor numbers grow from a target lifetime experience to a Guest of Honour SMG sites hosted representatives from part in the GREAT Festival in Istanbul. NRM has long been a centre of of 63,000 in 2004 to a yearly average selected in an international competition. 40 organisations in Asia, Australia, excellence for heritage restoration, exceeding 200,000, and his key Europe and North and South America; with overhauls shared between the achievements include bringing The world’s best-known scientist, staff represented us at ten conferences two museums. An important recent Furness No. 20, the world’s oldest Stephen Hawking, gave a tour of in Asia, Europe and North America; and Clockwise: The Cambridge University cosmologist transformation at Shildon centred on operating steam locomotive, to be a the museum to the winner, Adaeze we hosted international conferences, Stephen Hawking gives American teacher Adaeze the parcel van for the Churchill’s Final resident in 2009. George’s retirement Uyanwah a tour of the Science Museum in a Visit From top: Rides to the Hackworth Workshop Uyanwah, a Californian schoolteacher. including the European Association London promotion... SMG Director Ian Blatchford Journey display [see page 42]. ‘The followed a record-breaking year for terminus... Shildon’s birthday steam gala showing The promotional video featuring them of Museums of the History of Medical at the Intermuseum Conference in Moscow structural work on the vehicle carried visitors to Shildon. five locomotives in steam... Cab-It footplate tours

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SCIENCE MUSEUM ARM1 microchip, 1985. The first LONDON Reduced Instruction Set Computing chip produced for the mass market, Archive of Sir Patrick Moore, the made by Acorn Computers Ltd. television star who died in 2012. Includes Fewer instructions enable more planetary observation drawings, efficient performance telescope, book manuscripts and The Sky at Night scripts from his career in Mobile phone base station antenna astronomy and popularisation spanning disguised as a two-storey cactus, much of the 20th century. Opposite, 2013–14, manufactured by Larson we see his lunar globe, 1962, which Camouflage LLC, Arizona, USA shows details of the far side of the Moon revealed by the Luna 3 spacecraft in 1959 Poster of international telephone exchange, 1935. A General Post Office Eurostar 3000 telecommunications poster designed by John Cooper satellite, 2000, made by EADS Astrium Ltd. Now on display in Information Age Post Office telegram, Pontygwaith to (and shown above), this is a rare chance Archangel, 9 October 1943. ‘Wishing for visitors to see a real satellite close up you happy birthday look after yourself always thinking of you.’ Acquired Running blade for above-knee amputee, during a public collecting project run c. 2012, by Otto Bock Healthcare Ltd. by the Science Museum with partner The blade, for recreational athletes, museums across the UK incorporates cutting-edge technology that has previously been the preserve of Silver-plated fast-boiling travel kettle, Hadrian Ellory-van Dekker, Paralympic athletes 1930s, by Thompson, Ritchie & Co. Ltd, Science Museum Head of Collections, writes: London. Owned by Lady MacMichael, The Rugby tuning coils stand now as the spectacular Sir Patrick Moore Silver tracheotomy tube, 1950s, made wife of the governor of Tanganyika centrepiece of the Science Museum’s Information Age was a towering by Phoenix Surgical Instruments Ltd. gallery – a wonderful outcome to what was a Includes inner tubes and speaking valve, Ear lobe arterialised blood collector, Above: Large Object Store 1 at the figure in astronomy. His challenging, necessary and significant acquisition Museum of Science & Industry – on archive will help to inform plus cotton tape for attaching around the 2005. Developed by Thais Russomano, but somewhat speculative when we made it in 2005. the floor the giant red lettering from neck. Ronald Hughes contracted polio Brazil, and designed for taking blood We continue, across the Science Museum Group, to the Granada TV studios sign, recently the museum’s future in 1956 at the age of 34 and wore these samples in space, the technology acquired. Beyond is a BBC Dalek and develop the nation’s collection through generous at centre a cotton spinning machine astronomy and space tubes for the rest of his life should lead to cheaper and quicker donation and purchase. Scanning the horizon and made in 1964 by the Shirley Institute, displays, and will become forms of blood testing always thinking ahead, we remain committed to a Manchester-based research centre Two albums of cigarette cards, 1934–35, securing and preserving the very best of the unique Left: Sir Patrick Moore’s Russian an important resource showing early British radio performers, Electronic tide modelling machine, lunar globe showing the near side of and important and the representative to support our the Moon and the boundary with the for historians manufactured by Imperial Tobacco, 1960–2007, invented and constructed by exhibitions and research programmes. Here’s a far side ALISON BOYLE SM DEPUTY KEEPER distributed under the brand name W D Shizuo Ishiguro at the National Institute selection of the past year’s acquisitions. Top right: Eurostar 3000 satellite OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE and H O Wills and Company of Oceanography, Southampton CONTINUED 62 63 RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE TWO-FOLD PURPOSE BEHIND COLLECTING

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY MANCHESTER

Granada sign, 1962. The glowing red sign on Granada TV’s Quay Street building was a Manchester icon from 1962 to 2010, marking the first purpose-built television studios in the UK [pictured on page 62]

Design portfolio, 1924–37. Jean Elizabeth Gregson’s portfolio of coursework from the Manchester School of Art illuminates the career path of women in the male- dominated textile design industry

Ergometer, 1960s. Used at a ‘human performance laboratory’ at Salford University, this machine helped British cyclists prepare for the 1968 Mexico Olympics

Hard hat, 1990s, worn at the opening of Manchester’s velodrome. The construction of the National Cycling Centre spearheaded the ambitious regeneration of east Manchester Above: Jean Elizabeth Gregson’s NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM Photograph titled Rachel Weisz, 1993. photographs – 48 different poses, each Plans of Liverpool Road station, 1860s. textile design portfolio YORK BRADFORD Silver gelatin hand-printed and toned little bigger than a postage stamp Three drawings that illustrate how Below: An ergometer housed at with selenium. One of 104 prints acquired Manchester’s velodrome since the museum’s historic site continued about 1996 Wooden rails dating from the 1780s, Giclée-printed portrait of Tricia Wylie, by the museum from the estate of Irish Colortron 99 enlarger, 1965. Designed to evolve through the 19th century, from the Willington ‘waggonway’ on fishing industry worker in Scotland, photographer Bob Carlos Clarke © The for professional use, this enlarger was revealing previously unknown detail Tyneside. They form part of the oldest photographed by Paul Duke between Estate of Bob Carlos Clarke one of the first to use electronic surviving standard-gauge track in the 2009 and 2012. One of a selection of exposure control to simplify the world [see photograph inside front cover] prints by the Scottish photographer from Polyphoto proof sheet. Introduced in process of colour printing his series At Sea documenting the fishing 1933, Polyfoto was a commercial portrait 1:12 scale model, 1890–1914, of a Great communities of the Moray Firth studio system that produced distinctive Shirley Beljon studio equipment, late Northern Railway Class 1 Stirling Single 20th century. Shirley Beljon was a locomotive. Made by Barry Wallwork and well-known photographer in the 1970s a fine example of the model-maker’s art and 1980s, specialising in fashion photography and portraiture. This is a ‘Unbeaten Tracks’, 1860–70. Manuscript complete set of her studio equipment letters detailing the journeys of a railway engineer, believed to be H Bird, in western and central Europe

Leaflets, c. 1964, published by the Soviet Ministry of Transport and collected by ASLEF member James Collin on a trade union visit to the USSR

Pair of yellow plastic sandals inscribed ‘Merseyrail: more than just a journey’. These were given to women rail passengers attending the 2009 This page, at NMeM: Photographic portrait of Tricia Wylie, 2009–12, by Paul Duke... Photographic Grand National portrait of Rachel Weisz, 1993, by Bob Carlos Clarke At NRM: Five-inch-gauge model steam locomotive Class 1 Stirling Single, made by Barry Wallwork

64 65 RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS FINANCIAL OVERVIEW: GROUP FINANCIAL SUMMARY 2014–15 INNOVATIVE WAYS TO OFFER VFM Income 2014–15 (£m) Expenditure 2014–15 (£m) Grant in Aid Costs of generating voluntary income Trading income Trading costs Jonathan Newby, SMG Chief Operating Officer (below centre) identifies the new energy Grants, donations Care for and research into collections and sponsorship that is driving ideas to generate income Science education and communication Rental income Visitor services Other income Capital expenditure including collection additions

Our generous sponsors, trusts, foundations and of a special exhibitions gallery in Manchester and Our success in generating commercial income individuals have together contributed to and made to develop a series of contemporary science together with the generosity of our supporters possible the wide range of programmes across festivals in Bradford and Manchester. These has enabled the Group to continue to balance our museums in 2014–15, from the opening of additional awards recognise our innovation and budgets without compromising on either visitor Information Age to cutting-edge contemporary impact as part of the UK science base, particularly experience or the care of our collections. This science displays and our ground-breaking in the north of England, and will provide invaluable has required a continued focus on cost-reduction STEM-based learning activities and research. support in helping us realise our ambitions for strategies across our museums, including a fall the northern museums. in staff numbers, which has continued in this Once again, our visitors have made a huge financial year. As a group we are becoming more difference, with income from visitor donations In order to manage continued core funding strategically focused, leaner and more efficient, exceeding £2 million. In the context of continued reductions and enable investment in our strategic but if public funding continues to decline we public-sector funding cuts, the generosity of our vision, we have maintained our focus on income will have to review the scale and range of our visitors and other supporters is ever more critical generation. Self-generated income represented operations. to our continued success. 42% of total incoming resources this year, testament to the success of this strategy. Profit These figures are extracted from management Whilst our core government funding continues to from our commercial activities reduced slightly accounts at 31 March 2015 and were published before fall year on year, we have been successful in bidding from 2013–14’s record figures. This income was statutory accounting adjustments and external audit. for additional Grant in Aid awards exceeding supplemented by ticket income from our paid-for The full Annual Report and Accounts is published £1 million this year for specific one-off projects. exhibitions and from our international exhibition in July each year and is available on our website: This funding will enable SMG to begin construction touring programme. sciencemuseum.org.uk/group

The fiscal climate over the past 12 A seasonal pop-up Science Museum has seen some notable successes with months has been no less challenging shop at the Bluewater shopping mall ticket income exceeding expectations for SMG VISIT NUMBERS 2014–15 than in recent times, with the ongoing proved very popular, as has the continued a number of shows, including Collider at decline in Government funding making interest in specialist railway models from the Museum of Science & Industry (its Total number of visits to the museums Science Museum of National NRM National All Science Museum Science & Railway Shildon Media Museum it harder to balance the books. In this our Locomotion Models business. We’ve first paid-for exhibition since joining SMG Industry Museum Museum Group context finding new ways to deliver also refurbished several of our eateries, in 2012) and Drawn by Light at the Science Outturn 2013–14 3,342,000 669,000 926,000 296,000 479,000 5,712,000 self-generated income is ever more notably at the Museum of Science & Museum. Indeed, Collider is further important. Key to this is ensuring that Industry, and introduced a delightful making its mark around the world as Outturn 2014–15 3,348,000 680,000 727,000 167,000 414,000 5,337,000** the public programme at each of the outdoor terrace café at the Science it embarks on its ambitious four-year Group’s museums continues to attract Museum, as well as the charming tour, the first leg of which was to Paris; Visits in education groups Science Museum of National NRM National All Science visitors in increasing numbers. Then Countess of York high-tea restaurant it will then move on to the Far East and Museum Science & Railway Shildon Media Museum encouraging more visitors to spend in a converted vintage carriage at the Australasia, generating new income and Industry Museum Museum Group more during their visit is the route National Railway Museum. enhancing SMG’s reputation as it goes. Outturn 2013–14 442,000 54,000 39,000 * 26,000 * toward financial sustainability. Our visitor giving programme, now in its The expectation is that we will need to Outturn 2014–15 452,000 65,000 40,000 5,000 33,000 595,000** Our commercial team, SCMG Enterprises, fourth year, continues to drive individual go even further in developing innovative has delivered another great set of donations as visitors are welcomed at ways to secure self-generated income Information is sourced through both internal and periodic independent visitor surveys. * Methodology in recording visits in education groups at NRM Shildon was changed further to align with the rest of the Group. results [see page 56] and made a each of our sites. Income at both the as Government funding declines yet It is not appropriate to compare year on year. contribution exceeding £2.5 million to Science Museum and National Railway more in the coming years. But over the ** Any anomolies in totals arise from roundings. the Group. Whilst some areas of the Museum has been strong, with some past year or so we have shown ourselves THE YEAR’S HIGHLIGHTS business have struggled in the face of new records being broken during peak to be fighting fit, fleet of foot and up for The Science Museum Group attracted a total of 5,337,000 visits during the past year, among which 595,000 people visited in booked education groups. current market forces (notably retail), holiday periods, and the introduction of the challenge. The Science Museum enjoyed 3,348,000 visits, and welcomed 452,000 visitors in education groups, of which a record-breaking 388,000 were children others have stormed ahead, the scheme at the Museum of Science and young people. The National Railway Museum (York and Shildon) achieved a total of 894,000 visits during the year. particularly corporate hire. & Industry and National Media Museum has been particularly encouraging. Top: Jonathan Newby with RAF Red Arrows pilots SMG’S DIGITAL AUDIENCE launching a new 50th display season cockpit- The trend for year-on-year increases in visits to the Group’s websites has continued this year, reaching 10,799,000 in total. The methodology for reporting That said, we continue to innovate and viewpoint 3D film for the 3D simulation in the web visits has been changed. Industry leader Google Analytics is now being used to report figures, in line with other national museums. The latest figures demonstrate entrepreneurial flair. The temporary exhibition programme Science Museum’s Fly Zone have been amended to reflect this new methodology, to enable like-for-like comparison.

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We extend our grateful thanks to all those individuals, families and organisations that have chosen to support the work of the Science Museum Group

The Lord Leonard Wolfson and Trusts, foundations and government SCIENCE MUSEUM Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation Friends of the Museum The Wolfson Foundation Manchester City Council Corporate supporters People’s Postcode Lottery Accenture Science & Technology Facilities Council Airbus Group Patrons Wellcome Trust ARM The Zochonis Charitable Trust Bank of America Merrill Lynch Newton Circle Bayer Andreas J Goss Legacy BG Group plc Mr and Mrs Michael G Wilson OBE Charles Kenneth Andrews Bloomberg Philanthropies BP Galileo Circle BT The de Laszlo Foundation Cambridge Wireless Bridget and David Jacob NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM Citadel Steve Mobbs and Pauline Thomas CMS Cameron McKenna Pi Capital Corporate supporters Danone Mr Lawrence Staden Abellio Group GlaxoSmithKline Ambersphere Google Einstein Circle Angel Trains Ltd The Institution of Engineering and Technology Dr Ann Coxon Arriva Cross Country Johnson Matthey plc Mr Simon Godwin Bachmann Industries Europe plc MasterCard Andrew Jackson Bombardier Transportation UK Ltd Mathys & Squire Dr Kartar Lalvani OBE Central Japan Railways Motorola Dr Sara Levene Dellner Ltd Qualcomm Foundation Renato Lulia Jacob East Coast Main Line Company ReAgent Audrey Mandela and Sean Phelan Eversholt Rail Ltd Real Time Club Paul Murray Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways Renishaw Clive Richards OBE DL First Great Western The Science Museum Director’s Annual Dinner where we thank our supporters Shell First TransPennine Express Siemens Brunel Circle GHD Smiths Group Toby Anstruther Grand Central Railway Ltd Duchess Circle Legacy Virgin Media Mr Ian Blatchford Hornby plc Cryptair Ltd Paul B Hallam SUPPORTING THE SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP Winton Capital Management Iain Bratchie Mechan Ltd M R Darbyshire Christopher J King Wire Broadcast Ltd The Lord Browne of Madingley Milburns Dr D A Fagan Margaret Cecilia Scott The financial support of our visitors and partners David Buck Network Rail LNE&EM Route Keith John Kellett provides critical funding for the museums’ core Individuals Mr and Mrs Mark Chapman Northern Rail Alan Moore All those who wish to remain anonymous priorities and future plans. We are grateful to all ART RUSSE Steve Clarke Omnicom Engineering Ltd Wick Moorman those who have kindly made a donation to support Adrian Beecroft Dr John L Collins Pulsar Richard Robertson the work of the Science Museum Group. There are Lord Borwick of Hawkshead Mr Andrew Eland and Dr Pascale Hazel Rail Media Group Andrew Scott CBE a number of different ways to become a supporter: Mr and Mrs Donald Brydon CBE John and Elaine Elkington REPTA Phil and Caroline Swallow NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM David Buck Alexander and Ika Green Shepherd Group Joe Tonks Individual philanthropists play a unique role as The David and Claudia Harding Foundation Mr and Mrs Andrew Griffith Siemens Transportation Systems Ltd Sandra Turnbull Corporate supporters transformational donors and enjoy special access Patric de Gentile-Williams Fiona Kumar Bhardwaj Thales Transportation UK John Woodhouse British Film Institute to bring them closer to our museums, collections Mr and Mrs Andrew Griffith George and Angela Loudon JCT600 Ltd and programmes. Michael and Mercedes Hoffman Alan and Virginia Lovell Individuals Rocket Circle Jurys Inn Bridget and David Jacob Alexandra Papadakis John C Bentley William R Adam Toon Boom Animation Corporate supporters partner with us across a Eduardo Lulia Jacob Guy Reid Simon Gray Adrian Ashby Wikia range of activities including gallery and exhibition Renato Lulia Jacob Dr Neil Reid Peter Holland Peter Brumby sponsorships. Steve Mobbs and Pauline Thomas Mr and Mrs R A Saldanha Mr Stuart Longbottom David Buck Individuals Mr and Mrs R A Saldanha Dr Martin Schoernig Mrs Barbara Mosse Peter Burn Jesse Bryant Patrons support the work of the museums Dr Gill Samuels CBE Ian and Helen Simm Ian Clatworthy Mr and Mrs Jordanova through their annual donations and enjoy special Richard Sealy Chris Swinson OBE All those who wish to remain anonymous David Eastoe Mr and Mrs Michael G Wilson OBE access to bring them closer to our museums, Mr and Mrs Michael G Wilson OBE Mr David A Trapnell Connor Egan collections and programmes. Lord and Lady Waldegrave of North Hill Trusts, foundations and government C H Emeleus Trusts, foundations and government All those who wish to remain anonymous Gregg Wilson Arts Council England Mr Rod Giddins Metropolitan District Council Trusts, foundations and lottery bodies provide Branch Line Society Richard Harper The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation essential and substantial support for our new Trusts, foundations and government All those who wish to remain anonymous Friends of the National Railway Museum Dick Lane Italian Cultural Institute gallery developments, exhibitions, learning DCMS/Wolfson Foundation Museums and Heritage Lottery Fund Derek Langslow CBE programmes and wider public engagement. Galleries Improvement Fund Legacy The National Archives Tim Littler The de Laszlo Foundation William Thibadeau NSARE Stephen Middleton Visitor giving provides an opportunity for all our Economic and Social Research Council Rotary Club of Jarrow with Harton Peter J C Mosse FRSA SCIENCE MUSEUM FOUNDATION visitors to support our museums. The Eranda Foundation The Sylvia and Colin Shepherd Charitable Trust David Nevell The Ex-Pat Foundation Yorventure Environmental Body Ltd Bill Parker The Science Museum Foundation was set up in For further information, please contact us on Fidelity UK Foundation MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY Raymond Price 2012 to support the fundraising efforts of the Group. 020 7942 4041 or e-mail Friends of the National Libraries Patrons Ian Robinson We are grateful to the following Trustees for their development sciencemuseum.ac.uk Garfield Weston Foundation Corporate supporters Tony Steadman continued involvement and support: The Gosling Foundation BASF plc Mallard Circle Chris Taylor Heritage Lottery Fund Electricity North West Ltd Jeremy Hosking David Thomas Michael G Wilson OBE (Chair) The John S Cohen Foundation Hobs Studio Robert Tibbits Lord Borwick of Hawkshead The Kusuma Trust UK Manchester Science Partnerships Scotsman Circle Nigel Wall Donald Brydon CBE Medical Research Council Siemens UK and Ireland Industry Sector Ian Macbeth Dean Welbourn Howard Covington Parasol Foundation Trust University of Manchester/Faculty of Life Sciences Mr Harry Medcalf Alan Whitehouse Edwina Dunn Players of People’s Postcode Lottery University of Salford Neil Millington Rodney Wilson Michael Hoffman ShareGift Waters Corporation William N Smith Lord Rees of Ludlow The Stanley Foundation Francis Townend All those who wish to remain anonymous Sir Martin Smith Wellcome Trust

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OUR DISTINGUISHED ADVISERS Science Museum Advisory Board Chairman: Dr Gill Samuels CBE (Trustee), until January 2015 Mr Howard Covington (Trustee), from January 2015

Ms Jane Atkinson Dr Sarah Caddick Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE (Trustee) Dr Marcus du Sautoy Mr Malcolm Garrett Dr Lucie Green Sir Tim Hunt Professor Michael J Reiss Dr Gill Samuels CBE (Trustee), from January 2015 Professor Simon J Schaffer Professor Molly Stevens Professor Helen Storey MBE

Museum of Science & Industry Advisory Board Chairman: Mr James Smith CBE (Trustee), until January 2015 Dr Gill Samuels CBE (Trustee), from January 2015

Professor Colin Bailey Dr Maria Balshaw Mr Michael Emmerich Mr Steve Johnson Sir Richard Leese CBE Dr Erinma Ochu Michael G Wilson presenting the Queen and Prince Philip with their Fellowships Ms Sinead Rocks Star exhibit: Astronaut Dr Helen Sharman with the Zvezda spacesuit worn during her mission to the Mir space station in 1991 Dr Gill Samuels CBE (Trustee), until January 2015 SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP OBJECTIVES BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE Ms Susan Woodward OBE The Science Museum Group (SMG) is devoted to SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP Director: Ian Blatchford AUDIENCES 1969. Our library and archive collections National Railway Museum Advisory Board the history and contemporary practice of science, The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum is Science Museum The museum continues to attract include rare and significant items such medicine, technology, industry and media responsible for the whole of the Science Museum Chairman: Professor Sir Howard Newby CBE throughout which the common bond is human Group. The Trustees, who may number between (Trustee), until January 2015 Exhibition Road many more than 3 million visits a year. as the first Latin translation of Ptolemy’s ingenuity. Our collections form an enduring 12 and 20, are appointed by and are responsible Mr Simon Linnett (Trustee), from January 2015 London SW7 2DD About half of all visitors come in family Almagest, letters written by Sir Humphry record of scientific, technological and medical to the Prime Minister through DCMS. The www.sciencemuseum.org.uk groups and 1 in 10 visits are made in Davy and Charles Babbage’s notes and Mr Philip Benham change since the 18th century. SMG incorporates Director of SMG, as Chief Executive Officer, is education groups, typically 400,000 per drawings on his calculating engines. the Science Museum, its library and archive responsible to the Board of Trustees, and as Mr Christopher Garnett OBE, until February 2015 and the Wellcome Collection of the History of Accounting Officer is accountable to DCMS for Mr Bryan Gray CBE OBJECTIVES year, uniquely in the UK. Adults visiting Medicine in South Kensington; the Museum of compliance with the Management Statement Mr Brian Greenwood, until February 2015 The Science Museum’s mission is independently make up the rest of our The museum has been a pioneer of Professor Ludmilla Jordanova (Trustee) Science & Industry in Manchester; the National and Financial Memorandum. to make sense of the science that audience, and this is a sector we are interactive science interpretation for Railway Museum in York and Shildon; and the Mr Simon Linnett (Trustee), until January 2015 National Media Museum in Bradford. Our two All those named in this page held office during Mr Darren Richardson, until May 2014 shapes our lives. This commitment committed to growing. For many visitors more than 80 years. Recent innovations major collections stores are located at Wroughton the year under review, 2014–15 Mr Adrian Shooter CBE drives everything we do. Through our to London the Science Museum is a in our programming include monthly in Wiltshire and Blythe House in West Kensington. Ms Sarah Tanburn, from September 2014 Mr Anton Valk world-class collections of original must-see destination, with well over ‘adults only’ Lates evenings and an Chairman historic objects, galleries, interactive a third of general admissions visitors IMAX auditorium enhanced to host live Our strategic objectives across SMG are to Dr Douglas Gurr, until June 2014 Mr Philip Verster, until March 2015 aspire to the highest international museum Dr Gill Samuels CBE, Mr Christian Wolmar, from March 2015 experiences and our learning coming from overseas. The museum’s productions, lectures and debates, standards in the care and preservation of from July 2014 to December 2014 Mr William Woolley, until February 2015 programmes we aim to be the leading digital reach is also global, with about as well as 3D films. Flagships of our collections, scholarship, programming, Dame Mary Archer DBE, from January 2015 international museum championing the 40% of our website traffic coming from cutting-edge contemporary science learning and advocacy for our subject areas; National Media Museum Advisory Board strengthen our core narratives and deliver Members Chairman: Lord Grade of Yarmouth CBE (Trustee) understanding, enjoyment and prestige outside the UK. programming are the Antenna and dynamic gallery displays; implement clear Lady Chisholm, until January 2015 of science in modern society. We are now Who Am I? galleries. Mr Pierre Brahm audience strategies that focus on providing Mr Howard Covington three years into our ten-year Strategic HIGHLIGHTS life-enhancing experiences; extend our reach Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE Professor Brian Cantor nationally and internationally; be an organisation Lord Faulkner of Worcester Lady Chisholm (Trustee), until January 2015 Ambitions, which include a commitment The Science Museum traces its origins FUTURE AMBITIONS that is extrovert, entrepreneurial, efficient and Mr Andreas J Goss Mr Philippe Garner to focus on the urgent choices faced by from the Great Exhibition of 1851 when A revitalised exhibitions programme at dedicated to the development of great people. Lord Grade of Yarmouth CBE Ms Suzan Hemingway, from November 2014 society and the fundamental science and its world-class collections of original the Science Museum explores the birth Mr Matt Locke Professor Ludmilla Jordanova technology that underpin them. artefacts began amassing to represent of the space age in the trail-blazing THE CHARITY Mr Simon Linnett Professor Averil Macdonald (Trustee), The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum Professor Averil Macdonald from January 2015 the history of science, technology, Cosmonauts. Our ambitious Masterplan was established under the National Heritage Act Professor Sir Howard Newby CBE, Ms Zahida Manzoor CBE To help create a scientifically engineering and medicine. Among our will also see one third of our floor space Dr Annette Nabavi 1983. SMG is an exempt charity under the Second until January 2015 literate society and inspire the next key exhibits are Arkwright’s prototype repurposed or upgraded by the end of Schedule of the Charities Act 1994. Dr Gill Samuels CBE Mr Tony Reeves, until October 2014 Mr James Smith, until January 2015 Ms Carolyn Reynolds generation, our strategy focuses on spinning machine (1769), Stephenson’s 2019. The centrepieces of this are a new The Science Museum Group comprises: Mr Christopher Swinson OBE, until January 2015 Ms Gillian Reynolds MBE four core themes: climate science and steam engine Rocket (1829), Cooke and suite of medicine galleries and expanded Science Museum, London sustainability, medicine, informatics Wheatstone’s telegraph (1837), the Pilot interactive galleries. The museum’s Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester New Fellows of the Science Museum (FScM) and the science of data, and ACE computer (1950) and the Apollo 10 library, enlarged into a world-class National Railway Museum, York and Shildon HM Queen Elizabeth II National Media Museum, Bradford HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh understanding the universe. capsule that went into lunar orbit in research centre, reopens in 2015. SCMG Enterprises Ltd Dr Douglas Gurr

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Star exhibit: Daily demonstration of original spinning and weaving machines in the Textiles gallery Star exhibit: Station Hall at NRM York boasts a choice selection of Victorian locomotives and royal trains

Director: Sally MacDonald Our aim is to inspire the next generation people of all ages, is the 11-day multi- Director: Paul Kirkman railway industry, creating new public carriage in Europe). Other items include Museum of Science & Industry of scientists, engineers, designers, venue Manchester Science Festival. National Railway Museum spaces and galleries, and responding coins and medals, railway uniforms Liverpool Road, Castlefield chemists and entrepreneurs. We are Each October half term it attracts the Leeman Road to developments in the museum’s and costumes, equipment, documents, Manchester M3 4FP also committed to growing our audience best scientists from Manchester and York YO26 4XJ surroundings. records, artwork, photographs and even www.mosi.org.uk of independent adults. beyond to showcase current research www.nrm.org.uk a lock of Robert Stephenson’s hair. and promote the region’s rich heritage of AUDIENCES OBJECTIVES HIGHLIGHTS innovation. OBJECTIVES Our museum in York continues to appeal Twenty-seven of the locomotives The Museum of Science & Industry is We care for a globally important heritage The National Railway Museum comprises successfully to family groups, who in the collection are in full working devoted to inspiring visitors through the site comprising five listed buildings, two FUTURE AMBITIONS a main museum in York housed in make up about half of our visitors. More order, maintained by an army of eager ideas that change the world, from the of them listed Grade 1. This site was the In coming years, the museum’s strategy inspiring historic buildings and a second than two-thirds of our audience are volunteers and apprentices at both York Industrial Revolution to today and beyond. original terminus of the world’s first will ensure that we remain a vital and museum in Shildon, County Durham. non-enthusiasts, including our growth and Shildon. It’s a story that we’re uniquely placed inter-city railway and our characteristic vibrant part of people’s cultural life in The NRM in Shildon is operated in audience of adult nostalgia seekers. to tell – the site of the oldest surviving 1830 Warehouse epitomises Manchester and beyond. We will partnership with Durham County A large proportion of visitors come FUTURE AMBITIONS passenger railway station, in the heart Manchester’s 19th-century reputation as continue to develop our relationships Council and houses some of the from outside the Yorkshire and Humber During the 40th anniversary year of our of the world’s first industrial city, today ‘the warehouse of the western world’. with the Wellcome Trust, Siemens UK National Collection in a new building. region, many from overseas. site in York the museum’s programme alive with innovative cutting-edge and the city, helping to build our A charismatic 19th-century site also highlights our partnership with York discoveries in science and technology. Key objects in the collection include international reputation while features the former workshop of Timothy HIGHLIGHTS Theatre Royal. A revival of the hugely We combine the distinctive appeal of the models used by John Dalton to maintaining our regional focus. Hackworth, built for the world’s first The NRM is a world authority on railway successful production of The Railway our historic site with a vibrant demonstrate his atomic theory, laying passenger railway of 1825. Shildon is history and preservation, and holds Children stars one of our steam contemporary science programme to the foundations of modern chemistry; Manchester is enjoying significant known as the ‘cradle of the railways’. the world’s largest collection of 70,000 locomotives. Other creative partnerships surprise and delight audiences, making parts from the world’s first investment as a 21st-century city of railway artefacts from 300 years of include our annual Locos in a Different connections between the past and the commercially available computer, the science, so the Museum of Science & The NRM’s vision is to be the prime railway history. Locomotives and other Light event. present, between scientific theory and Ferranti Mark I; and one of the world’s Industry will take advantage of this showcase in the world for the huge rail vehicles in the collection include Sans real-world applications. largest collections of working steam mill exceptional opportunity to engage with impact railways and their technology Pareil, a competitor in the 1829 Rainhill We will continue our Masterplan engines, which visitors can see in action contemporary science and innovation. have had in the past and will have in the Trials won by Rocket; the famous Flying developments focusing on the South Sally MacDonald joined the museum as in the Power Hall. There are also daily future on people, the economy, society Scotsman; the elegantly streamlined Yard and opportunities presented by the Director in September 2014. demonstrations from spinning to We are producing a major exhibition and the environment in Britain and the world steam speed record holder Mallard; development of York Central. We are weaving on original machines in the on graphene for 2016, launching a new wider world. the only Japanese bullet train outside hoping to increase our contemporary AUDIENCES museum’s Textiles gallery. brand identity during 2015, and raising Japan; a giant Chinese steam locomotive; relevance with an exhibition on modern Families continue to be our largest funds to create a world-class We focus on appealing to non-specialist and a world-class collection of royal station architecture and by collaborating group of visitors, while almost 1 in 10 One of the flagship events in our cultural temporary exhibitions gallery in the audiences by telling bigger, bolder trains, among them Queen Adelaide’s with industry partners to deliver a series visits are made in educational groups. calendar, bringing science to life for 1830 Warehouse. stories, showcasing the modern saloon (the oldest preserved railway of high-profile debates.

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The Science Museum Group’s collection and more than 500,000 items from the is outstanding not just because of library and archives. Costs of operation the iconic exhibits on display at each are partially offset by income from museum, but the depth and breadth of commercial uses of parts of the site not the objects stored behind the scenes. needed for the collection, and there is a Huge artefacts such as the Rugby tuning strong focus on sustainability. coil that forms the centrepiece of the new Information Age gallery [see page 10] In 2015 we will be delivering a solar park are brought out for display from a site of at Wroughton. This 40-megawatt project equally impressive scale – a 545-acre will put more electricity into the grid former airfield at Wroughton in Wiltshire. than we use as a Group, while providing a secure and reliable income to help Wroughton is increasingly becoming the us continue our work conserving the national hub that enables the collection to extraordinary objects in our collections. be accessed and used across and beyond the Group. It is designated as the primary object store for the whole Group, and this year 5000 objects from the Museum of Science & Industry joined 30,000 objects already on site from across the Group, At Wroughton: Vickers Tango 1 submersible, c. 1975

Star exhibit: Frames from Louis Le Prince’s cine film of Leeds Bridge, 1888, believed to be the first moving pictures ever BLYTHE HOUSE COLLECTIONS STORE, LONDON Director: Jo Quinton-Tulloch our cinemas, about 9% are from BAME and blockbuster films. Our two other National Media Museum backgrounds and the number of children cinemas, Pictureville and Cubby Broccoli, Pictureville visiting the museum as part of an accommodate most film formats in Bradford BD1 1NQ educational group is rising. programmes ranging from cult classics www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk to contemporary art-house titles. HIGHLIGHTS OBJECTIVES The museum is home to 3.5 million FUTURE AMBITIONS At the National Media Museum we objects, comprising some of the most The investments announced in explore the science, technology and art compelling visual material to be found September 2014 are a significant of the still and moving image, and their anywhere. This includes three pivotal milestone in the strategic ambitions of impact on our lives. We have eight floors firsts: the world’s earliest known the National Media Museum: funding of galleries which help us to display our surviving negative, taken by William from Bradford City Council helps us to world-class collections in photography, Henry Fox Talbot in 1835; the Leeds- play a much bigger role in the education film and television. Our three cinema made camera used by Louis Augustin of young people from the district and screens – managed in partnership with Le Prince in 1888 to make the earliest beyond, positioning us as a centre of Picturehouse Cinemas – showcase the moving pictures in Britain; and John excellence for engaging disadvantaged best films from around the world in Logie Baird’s apparatus used to young people in STEM. Bradford, the first UNESCO City of Film. produce the first true television Our objective is to be a dynamic and pictures in Soho in 1925. Our forthcoming interactive gallery – due inclusive museum, globally recognised to open in late 2016 and our first new for its national collections and for using Other key holdings include the permanent gallery since Life Online in At Blythe House: Conservation intern Louise Stewart working on the First World War medicine collection them in meaningful and inspiring ways. cinematographic camera used by Herbert 2012 – will be a world-leading facility for G Ponting on Scott’s Antarctic expedition exploring the science of light and sound. Behind the preparations for the Science and loans to other museums. The The Group has subsequently undertaken AUDIENCES of 1910 and the Daily Herald archive of During 2015 we open a newly upgraded Museum’s major forthcoming galleries Group currently occupies a third of the detailed feasibility work that will help to The largest single section of our audience more than 3 million photographs from digital IMAX auditorium in partnership on mathematics and medicine lies Blythe building, shared with the V&A and the inform the new government’s decision. comes as part of a family group. The 1911 to the mid-1960s – a fascinating with Picturehouse so we can fully exploit House, the Group’s small-object store at British Museum. Its location, however, There may be significant public benefits museum is an important attraction and record of local, national and international this ultra-large format. Olympia in London. Here, curators select is not a sustainable long-term solution to consolidating the storage of the resource for communities in Yorkshire events during this period. artefacts for display, photographers for the storage of our collection. In its collection, enabling it to be made more – especially Bradford District and digitise the objects and conservators Autumn Statement, the last government easily available across the Group’s Leeds – and the vast majority of visitors Europe’s first IMAX cinema opened prepare them. As well as ensuring the announced that it would consider museums and online activities. come from the region. Almost a fifth of here in Bradford and continues to preservation of the collection, the site the benefits and costs of relocating visitors come to watch a film in one of offer an exciting programme of 3D facilitates researchers studying objects collections from Blythe House.

74 75 RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE WHAT WE LENT OUT In 2014–15 the Science Museum Group loaned about 2500 objects to 156 different venues in the UK and 149 objects to another 25 overseas. Here’s where ten ended up Staatliche Kunsthalle J Paul Getty Museum, Baden-Baden, Germany Los Angeles, USA Calotype negative (1843) of British kinematograph the Hotel Canterbury, Rue apparatus (1896), possibly de la Paix, Paris, by William used to film Queen Victoria’s Henry Fox Talbot, loaned to Diamond Jubilee procession Sources: SM – Science Museum, London Room Service at the Staatliche in 1897, loaned to A Royal MSI – Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Passion: Queen Victoria and NRM – National Railway Museum, York and Shildon Germany. Source: NMeM Photography. Source: NMeM NMeM – National Media Museum, Bradford

M van Museum, Leuven Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, USA County Ivory anatomical figure, male Hong Kong Islamic nocturnal and sundial Museum Service (17th–18th century), with some English wickerwork Bath chair loaned to Nur: Light in Art and Two-bladed variable-pitch removable internal organs, (20th century) – one of four Science from the Islamic World, propeller (after 1950), made lying on a couch, possibly loans to The Extraordinary in an exhibition at the Dallas in Lancashire by De Havilland German. Source: SM the Ordinary: Chairs for Viewing Museum of Art, USA. Airscrews, previously the World through Time at the Source: SM on long-term loan to the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. Museum of Lancashire in Source: SM Preston. Source: MSI

Gwili Vintage Carriage Group, Herschel Museum St George’s Healthcare Totnes Museum, Devon Carmarthen of Astronomy, Bath NHS Trust, London Components from Charles Steam locomotive (1897), Twelve objects (1770–1820), Pair of lower limb prostheses Babbage’s difference engine built at Taff Vale Railway astronomy equipment, globes (1966) for a thalidomide- (c. 1830) on long-term loan Works, Wales, loaned for a and here an armillary sphere affected child, displayed in A to Totnes Elizabethan House display at the Gwili Steam associated with William Herschel, Very Special Hospital 1960–1988 & Museum, Devon, for its Railway in Bronwydd Arms, loaned to the permanent display at Queen Mary’s Hospital, display about Babbage. Carmarthen. Source: NRM in Bath. Source: SM London. Source: SM Source: SM

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SUNSET OVER CASTLEFIELD Solar, 2014, by Luxury Logico 100 reclaimed street lamps from Greater Manchester, Specially commissioned by the Centre for Chinese refitted with LEDs to create a mesmerising artificial Contemporary Art for last autumn’s city-wide Asia sun. This futuristic light source glows with hope and Triennial, Solar was part of the Harmonious Society optimism about a hi-tech and sustainable future, exhibition on display at the Museum of Science adding beauty to the already charismatic public & Industry. This installation combines recycling realm at the museum. Luxury Logico comprises with new technology and features more than four contemporary artists born in 1980s Taiwan. RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE

We have great history, railway history, and this REMEMBERING is part of that railway history

JIM LESTER FIREMAN WHO STOKED THIS LOCOMOTIVE A TITANIC WHICH PULLED CHURCHILL’S FUNERAL TRAIN IN 1965 STATESMAN

As an echo of one of Britain’s greatest state funerals ever, Sir Winston Churchill’s funeral train from 30 January 1965 was reassembled in the Great Hall at NRM York for Churchill’s Final Journey. The funeral signified the end of an era. Not only did it mark the passing of a giant figure from history, but it was also the last to involve a steam locomotive.

The exhibition in York brought together NRM’s Battle of Britain class locomotive No. 34051 Winston Churchill with the restored parcel van that carried the coffin, plus luxury Pullman carriage Lydia, which took his family from Waterloo station to Hanborough in Oxfordshire for the burial. Here we see Trevor Addison using a grinder and Ian Matthews painting during the transformation of the parcel van at NRM Shildon. The locomotive had received cosmetic restoration earlier at the Mid-Hants Railway. [See also Churchill’s Scientists, page 42]