The Broadcast Engineering Museum - England

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I know that the majority of Videokarma members are in the USA but I thought you'd like news of a new museum that we're creating in England.

The Broadcast Engineering Museum is being created by a charitable trust, the Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group www.becg.tv We have bought 30,000 sq ft of premises near Lincoln, about 150 miles north of London and are working hard to create our museum. We want to display our extensive collection of TV cameras, OB (remote) trucks and much else. Hands-on and working as far as possible.

We've come a long way in the 10 months since we bought the building and are getting ready for our first open days on September 17 and 18.

We're opening under the UK-wide Heritage Open Days scheme: https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/

On our own website: https://becg.org.uk/2022/07/25/heritage-open-days-2022/

Parked outside our building will be "Southern" OB truck, fully working (see photo) We will also have a new acquisition, an ex-BBC radio car https://becg.org.uk/projects/bbc-radio-car-lt05xan/ plus an ITN links vehicle.

Inside we'll be showing C format VTR working (and 2" quadruplex if we can get it ready in time) and classic telecine machines. Cameras from the 1950 onwards, working where possible, including a camera that was used at the Queen's Coronation in 1953. We're rigging a green screen (chromakey) demonstration and as much other fun stuff as we can manage.

Google maps has caught up with us: https://goo.gl/maps/JuDVW8czfJSc1p1cA

If you're anywhere nearby, please come along and see us. See what we've achieved so far and our plans for the future.

PS: If you want to give us money we've never refused