The Baird apparatus in position

An Exciting Delivery from Bradford!

12/04/2007

John Logie Baird's Television Apparatus

On Thursday 12 April, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery received an exciting delivery from the National Media Museum, Bradford - a replica of John Logie Baird's television apparatus. This exhibit was originally presented to the Science Museum, and was displayed at the National Film and Television Museum, as it was then known, in Bradford. It is now on permanent loan to Hastings Museum and will form part of the display in the new Baird room. The apparatus consists of replicas of the real items that Baird used in the 1920s to televise images, and includes a copy of the ventriloquist's dummy's head 'Stooky Bill' that Baird used as a model for his experiments. The word 'Stooky' comes from a Scottish word for plaster.

Hastings Museum and Art Gallery is set to reopen this summer, and behind closed doors work is in full swing to get everything ready for the much anticipated reopening. The Museum has been closed for over a year while major building and redisplay works have been carried out.

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