Andrew Losowsky

The museum of media

27 November 2006. Inspired by some backward forward thinking.

"In today's digital media landscape there's little value in putting old printing presses from Fleet Street into a gallery," Philpott explains. "Our role must be to mark the past - which we already do, as well as reflect the present - and show how what's come before will shape media's future."
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The next innovation will be to establish a physical presence elsewhere in the UK, starting with London.

Shurely shome mishtake? The museum currently gets 700,000 visitors a year. How many more would a carefully curated online museum of media get?