What was on

In 2024 Widescreen Weekend celebrated 70 years of VistaVision, explored widescreen's impact on Italian cinema, embraced the historical romance genre and more.

Our extravaganza of games culture, design, and production returned to Bradford in 2024.

In 2023, Widescreen Weekend celebrated large-screen formats and cinema technologies from the past, present and future of film.

Newspaper photographs from the Daily Herald Archive offered a look into the young Prince Charles' everyday life.

A new interactive installation by acclaimed choreographer Corey Baker.

This special display revealed incredible objects from Professor Stephen Hawking’s office.

We took part in an incredible global musical moment to show solidarity with Ukraine. 

Our unique festival of gaming returned in 2023 to celebrate games culture, design and production with special industry guests.

Celebrating the last century of TV, radio and streaming, Broadcast 100 was a bumper year of exhibitions and events across the Science Museum Group.

From the first radio microphones and outdoor broadcast to colour TV and streaming, this exhibition explored how and why the world of broadcasting has changed over the last 100 years.

These special events explored what the future holds for Northern programme making, and gave you the chance to uncover your own screen skills.

Our free tour gave an introduction to our collection and photographs from the Daily Herald Archive related to African Caribbean history.

In 2022 Widescreen Weekend celebrated the 70th anniversary of the process that started it all, Cinerama, with a programme of brand new restorations and opportunities to experience the format in both digital and analogue.

This special display took you behind the scenes of preparations to televise Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, revealed in photographs from the Daily Herald Archive.

This exhibition uncovered the world of codebreaking, ciphers and secret communications, from the trenches of the First World War to the latest in cyber security.

This display showcased the stories and photos of Akbal Singh Kang, documenting his family and community in Bradford throughout the 1960s.