Last year I headed over to the African Studies Centre at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands, for the final conference of the Mobile Africa Revisited project. I talked about my experiences of developing a display about mobile phones in Cameroon that will appear in a new gallery in the Science Museum this autumn. …
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Muzeum Techniki, Warsaw
This post also appears in the BSHS travel guide The formidable and controversial Palace of Culture and Science – a gift from Stalin to the people of Warsaw – looms over the city as a reminder of the soviet era. Within the building is a viewing gallery, lots of conference space and the subject of this entry, …
The BBC at Daventry Museum
Yesterday I visited my nearest museum in Daventry. They do a brilliant job, despite only being able to open from 10-4 on the first Saturday of every month. For March, April and May this year they have a special exhibition about the BBC at Daventry. The first Daventry transmitter, 5XX began transmitting in 1925, only three …