Special Exhibitions
An exciting new exhibition exploring the role played by technology in creating post-war Britain.
ERNIE was the first machine to generate random numbers for the Premium Bonds. Find out how he captured the public’s imagination and provides a link to Colossus, the first digital electronic computer.
Remember Tomorrow’s World? Well, science film and TV goes back much further, to 1903. This show traces the major science documentary genres and opens up an archive of the most dramatic examples.
Listening Post is a ‘dynamic portrait’ of online communication, displaying uncensored fragments of text, sampled in real-time, from public internet chatrooms and bulletin boards.
