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Exhibitions

The ±«Óãtv story on display

Broadcast Engineering Museum

Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group - Hemswell Cliff

Permanent

Dedicated to the survival and interpretation of broadcast history. Open during publicised open days.

The Broadcast Engineering Museum in Lincolnshire
Image © Michael Collins Photography

Showtown

Blackpool Heritage and Museum Trust - Blackpool

Permanent

Changing exhibitions reflecting the Lancashire coastal town's involvement in the world of entertainment. The ±«Óãtv's Come Dancing and Strictly, TV and radio careers of Morecambe and Wise, Ken Dodd, Cannon and Ball feature in future displays.  

 

The multi-coloured logo of the Showtown - Museum of Fun and Entertainment

Second World War Galleries

Imperial War Museum - London

Permanent

Explore the social history context of a war which affected millions of people from around the world, and discover the part that broadcasting played in the conflict, from radio rhetoric to V for Victory.

Second World War Galleries at the Imperial War Museum

Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World

Science Museum - London

Permanent

Billed as the Museum's biggest and most ambitious permanent gallery to date, Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World tells the story of communications innovation through six themes: The Cable, The Telephone Exchange, Broadcast, The Constellation, The Cell and The Web.

±«Óãtv History worked closely with the Museum to provide key objects, photographs, radio and TV clips of the Broadcast section, in order to bring this all-important story to life.

Here’s a short film of the gallery, where the Museum’s Head of Collections and Principal Curator Dr. Tilly Blyth selects some of its most significant ±«Óãtv objects and describes how they changed the lives of all of us.

The Science Museum’s Head of Collections and Principal Curator Dr. Tilly Blyth.

±«Óãtv programmes heard worldwide for the first time

Philips Museum - Eindhoven

Permanent

A celebration of the work of Philips Laboratories as the major hub for broadcasting ±«Óãtv radio programmes worldwide for the first time from May 1927 to December 1932 via PCJJ, the Philips international radio station based in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Philips Museum

Hi-de-Hi!

Harwich Museum - Harwich

Permanent

An array of Hi-de-Hi! memorabilia on display in the town where the series was filmed. A holiday camp near Harwich in Essex was the location for the iconic 80s TV comedy, and costumes, images and props have been brought together for the first time at the museum.

Hi-de-Hi! image of clothing and artifacts from the TV series.

The UK’s vast contribution to Radio and Television manufacturing and broadcasting

British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum - London

Permanent

The Gerald (Gerry) Wells collection of vintage wireless and television sets on display during the ±«Óãtv’s centenary year.

British Vintage Wireless Musem - collection of vintage radios and equipment.

Showcasing the story of radio and broadcasting in Britain since the 1920s

The Radio Museum - Watchet

Permanent

A rare selection of vintage ±«Óãtv equipment including sound mixing desks, parts of a ±«Óãtv radio transmitter, vintage ±«Óãtv microphones, portable sound recorders, and outside broadcasting equipment.

The Radio Museum, at Watchett in Somerset.

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