Museum features in Cambridge Festival’s virtual exhibition and online festival of film 

Cambridge Museum of Technology has made contributions to two of the programmes at the 2023 Cambridge Festival: 

Library of Great Silence at Cambridge University Centre for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 

Pye Unit Set on display at Cambridge Museum of Technology as part of Radio Enters the Home exhibition

An exhibition Library of Great Silence investigates societal transformations from the past to better understand catalysts of change, and risks to the future in the interest of prediction, intervention and innovation. 

The Museum of Technology has contributed a (virtual) exhibit from the current “Radio Enters the Home” exhibition at the museum, curated courtesy of exhibitor Mike Kemp and celebrating Cambridge’s contribution to the development of broadcast technology: 

Pye Unit Set: Cambridge company's 1st radio, introduced as BBC broadcasting began in the UK in 1922. Within 10 years, 50% of homes in the UK had a radio: an era of mass communication had begun.

Fast-Forward Cambridge: Festival of Film 

Museum volunteers created Fast-Forward Cambridge as a documentary-feature for the online Festival of Film: 

  • exploring the city’s industrial heritage (and more) at speed: time-lapsed, accelerated, rotated and colour-inverted 

  • compiling over 20 hours of footage (shot over 2 years) into 20 minutes 

  • experimenting with photographic techniques such as colour-inversion to reveal new perspectives on architectural and archaeological details 

  • featuring an ambient soundtrack recorded at the museum and around the city. 

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