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The National Media Museum (formerly the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television) is a museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, and is part of the national Science Museum Group. The museum has seven floors of galleries with permanent exhibitions focusing on photography, television, animation, videogaming, the internet and the scientific principles behind light and colour. It also hosts temporary exhibitions and maintains a collection of 3.5 million pieces in its research facility. The venue also has three cinemas operated in partnership with Picturehouse Cinemas, including an IMAX screen and hosts two film festivals each year, including the Bradford International Film Festival. In September 2011 the museum was voted the best indoor attraction in Yorkshire by the public, and it is one of the most visited museums in the north of England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Media Museum visitor numbers continue to fall )〕 == History == The museum is on the site of a what was to be a theatre in the centre of Bradford, where work begun in the 1960s remained unfinished. The museum came about as the result of discussions between Dame Margaret Weston of the Science Museum, London and Bradford city councillors.〔 The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, as it was then called, opened to visitors on 16 June 1983. The museum launched Britain’s largest cinema screen, IMAX, five storeys high with six-channel sound, on the same day. During this period the museum specialised in the art and science of images and image-making since Colin Ford, its first director, believed that understanding how images are made led to appreciation of the ideas expressed and the intentions and skills of image-makers. To mark the 50th anniversary of the first public television service, two interactive television galleries were developed in 1986. These allowed visitors to operate cameras on a studio set with programmed sound and lighting, use vision mixers, read a news item from an autocue and discover how chroma keying works. These exhibits survived 2006, when the museum was renamed. In 1989, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of photography, the museum launched the ''Kodak Gallery'', a display of the history of photography from its invention. This was followed by the installation of a standard television studio, first used by TV-am for outside broadcasts and later Nickelodeon. These studios were the first live broadcasting studios in a museum. Today, the equipment is used to teach students from the School of Informatics at the University of Bradford, with whom the museum has a partnership for BSc and BA courses in media and television. In 1994, the ''TV Heaven'' gallery was launched, making accessible the museum's collection of television programmes, most of which are not available elsewhere. While continuing to run the Pictureville Cinema and exhibitions in a temporary venue on the other side of the city, the museum closed its main site on 31 August 1997 to allow for a 19-month, £16 million redevelopment making the museum 25 percent bigger. The IMAX cinema was also developed to show 3D films. The new museum was opened on 16 June 1999 by Pierce Brosnan. On 1 December 2006, the museum was renamed the ''National Media Museum''; at the same time opening two new £3 million interactive galleries: ''Experience TV'' and ''TV Heaven'', dedicated to the past, present and future of television. The galleries display both scientific exhibits such as John Logie Baird's original apparatus and television ephemera such as ''Wallace and Gromit'' and the ''Play School'' toys. In 2009 the Museum partnered other bodies from the Bradford District in a successful bid to become the world's first UNESCO, (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) City of Film. A major revamp of the foyer was unveiled in February 2010, including a brand new ''Games Lounge'', a new gallery drawing on the National Videogame Archive established in 2008 in partnership with Nottingham Trent University. It was originally intended to be temporary but one in five visitors to the ''Games Lounge'' named it as their favourite part of the Museum and as a result a more permanent version of the '' Lounge was established in another part of the cinema. In March 2012 the Museum opened ''Life Online, the world's first gallery dedicated to exploring the social, technological and cultural impact of the Internet. 'The gallery includes both a permanent exhibition in the foyer and a second changing temporary exhibition on Level 7. The first exhibition to feature is ''(source ): Is the internet you know under threat?'' - an exploration of the open source nature of the Internet and the current threats to net neutrality and the continuation of the open source culture. In October 2014 the museum entered into a partnership with Picturehouse Cinemas with the national chain taking over the running of the three cinema screens in a bid to boost audience figures and protect the future of cinema on the site. The partnership will be referred to as Picturehouse at the National Media Museum and Picturehouse will introduce offers available across the chain to the museum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cinema chain takes over operation of National Media Museum's three screens )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Media Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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