Celebrate 50 years of Cambridge Museum of Technology with founders, staff and volunteers!

Published to coincide with #OpenCambridge 2021, this documentary, created by staff and volunteers, charts the past, present and future of the museum, including:

  • saving of the old pumping station on Cheddars Lane in the late 1960s by students of Cambridge University and employees of Cambridge Instrument Company

  • opening of the museum in 1971 for its first Steam Weekend

  • the work of volunteers at the museum from 1970s to 2020s as a vibrant part of the local community 

  • Heritage Lottery Fund redevelopment and reopening in 2010s 

  • highlights from the museum’s 50th Birthday Weekend, held in July 2021 

  • inspiration for future generations of volunteers, engineers, conservators, industrial historians and archaeologists, artists and the local community!

How to watch 

This free-to-air video premiered during OpenCambridge 2021 Festival (10-19 September 2021), and is now available for on-demand viewing on the museum’s online channels:

About the video

Run time: 20 minutes 
Accessibility: subtitles (English, UK)

Produced by staff and volunteers under Creative Commons licence:  
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) 

2021 museum videography: The Willcox Collective commissioned by Cambridge Museum of Technology.

Archive photography: Cambridgeshire Archives, Cambridgeshire Collection, Paul Macro Photography commissioned by Shared Enterprise, Pye History Trust and museum volunteers.

Narrated by Joy Rutherford, with Curator Pam Halls

50th anniversary exhibition research by Harriet O'Rourke

Produced by Gordon Davies for Cambridge Museum of Technology.

Inspiration: founders and volunteers of the museum 1971–2021.

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