National Media Museum appoints Science Museum official as its new boss

Hmm ...

Let's hope Bradford doesn't get as comprehensively destroyed as the Science Museum in London has over recent years. One of the best of all Museums transformed into a gift shop with zero exhibits attached and - last time I was there - a "sculpture" of hot water bottles (seriously) hanging from the ceiling. Whatever happened to the exhibit where you turned a handle and all the little street lamps came on? Or the atmospheric depiction of miners digging for coal? Gone, gone gone.

Photography, be afraid, be very afraid. I saw the word "Innovative" used ...

re: "Innovative"

...right up there with "re-imagining / reinterpreting" (actually most things with "re" at the front), "juxtaposing", "challenging assumptions" and "inviting the viewer" in the lexicon of pre-loaded weasel words and phrases so beloved of the gallery darlings.

Re: "Innovative"

The word "Innovative" was not actually used.

The Science Museum does not have zero exhibits. Last time I was there I saw literally thousands. Spaceships and everything.

As much as you and I may be saddened at the passing of a favorite exhibit, a feature where you turn a handle and all the little street lamps come on does not cut the mustard with today's average thinking 14 year old, 44 year old, or 84 year old.

The moment any museum stops innovating it itself becomes a relic. The atmospheric depiction of miners digging for coal was in it's day, I'm sure, cutting edge stuff.

Hands up everyone who still uses the calotype method? Hmm, just as I thought.

Things move on - or they fade into nothing like an old inkjet print.