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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

National Science and Media museum in Bradford to close for £6m refurb

Bradford’s National Science and Media museum
Bradford’s National Science and Media museum hopes to become a star attraction during the city’s year of culture and attract a million extra people. Photograph: Ian Lamond/Alamy

The National Science and Media museum is to close for a year for a “radical, once-in-a-generation” revamp that will allow more visitors to attend and provide the ability to tell stories in a more dynamic way, bosses say.

The museum in Bradford has a vast, dizzyingly diverse collection of more than 3.2m objects, from the first photographic negative to the original puppet of Zippy from Rainbow.

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