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00:00We were very involved in the bid as you would expect. We're one of the key cultural anchors
00:21in the city centre and really proud to be that place that people visit. Once we won
00:28the bid, of course, we've been working with the City of Culture team to ensure that our
00:32programme is ready to welcome thousands more visitors to the city and the district in 2025.
00:40It's not been easy. It was very difficult. We closed the museum for 18 months to enable
00:44us to do some really significant work. That's future-proof the museum, so we'll be here
00:49for years to come, welcoming more and more people over those years. But everybody has
00:54worked so very hard to create the wonderful displays that you've seen today, and more
00:58will come.
01:05Aardman Animations are really good friends of the museum, and we were talking to them.
01:11We already have some items in the collection from some of their animations. Obviously Wallace,
01:18of the famed trousers, is known for his inventions and his quirky, creative nature, and we hope
01:26that will inspire some of the young people that come to the museum as well. Well, we've
01:30opened a new David Hockney exhibition, obviously a Bradford boy. Who else would we choose to
01:35celebrate as the first exhibition in this museum? He's known for his photography and
01:40his film, and we've chosen some pieces accordingly that really celebrate his place in Bradford
01:46and his place in Yorkshire as well.
01:53I think our subject areas are really interesting, so they're really relevant to people's lives.
01:59So our core areas of interest are photography, film, television and sound technologies. Pretty
02:04much everybody carries a mobile phone, so we're all involved with and engaged with those
02:09media technologies. They're everywhere in our lives. That in one sense makes it a difficult
02:14gallery to curate because they're so ubiquitous that lots of people, you don't even notice
02:19that you're using them. But equally, the history of those technologies is really relevant to
02:24how we've got to where we are today. So I think they're really interesting stories and
02:29we've worked really hard to make them relevant to as many people as we possibly can.
02:34We have internationally significant collections and we have some of the very first examples
02:41of our technologies. So for example, we've got the very first photographic negative that
02:47was ever taken by William Henry Fox Talbot. We've got the camera that was used to take
02:52the very first moving footage ever by Louis Leprance, and that was in Leeds, a Leeds story.
02:59We've got the apparatus that was used by John Logie Baird to demonstrate true television
03:04for the first time. So some really early examples of those technologies, and we follow that
03:10story right the way through to today to see where those technologies have brought us.
03:14So we're open seven days a week. So if you're coming to see anything else across the district,
03:19we'll be here. So come and see a film, come and see our exhibitions, come and see our
03:24new galleries from the summer onwards.