Here is our Hand Shadows panel on which our visitors can practice. We have a number of interactive displays to engage the visitors, I will be presenting them one by one.

Here is the Timeline which takes you on a journey through time from 30000 years ago when cavemen were trying to capture movement in their cave paintings in the Chauvet cave in France to the 28th December 1895 when the Lumiere brothers gave their first commercial screening of films.

Here is the Camera Obscura display, this is a device that catches the world outside the box but show it upside down! The first step towards the invention of photography and the camera.

Here are some of our magic lanterns, there will be more on display when I return later in January.

We have a very impressive wall of 24 day and night 18th century Vues d’Optique, the lighting is controlled by a timer which allows visitors to appreciate the transformation from day to night when the pierced and cut out prints are lit from behind. Here you can see the night “effect”

This one was difficult to photograph, the combination of black and glass makes a mirror effect!

Here is the Stereoscopy cabinet, 3 beautiful floor standing viewers and a wonderful selections of table top and hand held ones. Almost 6 m of display!

One of the most extraordinary item in the museum is a fully working 12 seater Kaiser Panorama, this an important historical artifact as a precursor to cinema and at the very beginnings of the mechanisation of popular entertainment. Our visitors can sit and enjoy the 3d effect of the glass stereo views every day!

This is the reception area and museum entrance, you can see some old cinema seats and a set of 4 fairground mirrors, the supporting columns have been covered in Praxinoscope and Zoetrope strips, great fun!