I hope this is what Tim is promising with the longer video. Even the rapid walkthrough here is fascinating and I wish I lived close enough to come see it...
Yes, I've never been to the Science Museum too far away . I'd love to have seen this exhibition. Hope we have a longer video to enjoy Tim ,and thanks for all your amazing creations !!!👍
Wow. Tim, I must say how sad I am that your display is closing, I have tears in my eyes. I first saw your TV program when I was a young lad back in the late 80’s here in Australia, taped them on VHS, and watched them over and over for many years. When my wife and I were in the UK in 2006 we visited your display at the Science Museum, and I have a lovely photo of my wife playing the ‘Pong’ video game. Your programs were a big part of keeping me interested in how things work, which has been integral to my career and my life in general, building and fixing stuff, and even developing and manufacturing products. 29 years is a huge length of time for an exhibit to run at a museum, you should be very proud.
My kids have seen it multiple times, and they are now in their mid-20s. We used to travel from Norfolk to the Science museum twice a year. It’s such a great place. Sorry this is going. 😢
When I was a child this was one of my favourite parts of the museum. I absolutely loved the burglar alarm and trying to dodge the light beams, messing with the TV using magnets, flushing the loo and giggling at my mum's disapproving expression... This was by far the most interactive exhibit (well, aside from the Launchpad), and although it had become very dated and a bit run-down in recent years, it will be missed. Thanks for making such a memorable exhibit :)
Today your exhibit was consistently full of people of all ages laughing, pointing, interacting and talking. It's still the best, most joyous and inspiring part of the science museum. Household science and engineering is where all of our fascinations with the world start and this part of the museum has inspired people to see the things around them in a whole different light for nearly 30 years. Thank you for inspiring so many people whilst also bringing so much laughter into into the world.
As a sixty something year old I would like to thank you Tim & your good pal Rex for a wonderful instruction on how things work etc. It made me an inquisitor & have the yearning to learn. I am very sad to hear about the gallery closing, very sad..... Many Thanks. Jono
I didn't know that was yours! One of the best remaining bits of the science museum. Proper moving models, things to see and understand. Too complex for the arty types who get to run museums of course. Most museum committees seem to think that 'multimedia' is what everyone wants to see. No! Can get that on TH-cam.
Oh no Tim! I have two lasting memories of the science museum London. One is the enormous mill steam engine in the main hall and the other is your toilet!!
For many years, for me, a visit to the Science Museum has included a pilgrimage to the basement for the Secret Life of the Home. The crank operated freezer, the see-through loo, with the turd return cup. And the manual washing machine. Such a joy to behold from the last two decades of visiting.
Tim, you were a huge inspiration to me with your secret life of machines series. I've watched it over and over and it actually inspired me to become an electrical engineer myself. You have such a great way of explaining things and making science and engineering understandable, interesting and fun. You are such a treasure and I can't wait to introduce my own children to the secret life of machines series when they are old enough.
This was my favourite section in the museum by far. Whenever my niece came up to visit me we'd always make a special pilgrimage to South Kensington to specifically see this display. Thank you so much so the joy it has brought me and her over the years (and a bonus thank you for the C4 series inspiring the scientist in me when I was 10 or so)
Didn't know you were the one that made that! It always stood out to me when visiting the museum, a real shame and a loss for the museum to see it being closed.
I loved Secret Life of the Home, it's a shame when it's gone. Every 2 years we went to London from the Netherlands to visit the Science Museum, we will miss Secret Life
Very sad to hear that, Mr. Hunkin.. It would be lovely if you manage to make longer video about it before it closes, since I am sure there are a lot of people who haven't seen it, but for sure would be glad to.
Your relevance extends way beyond this. Your TV shows were one of the reasons I and my cousin got into engineering. We also say "bloody cyclists" the same way even to this day... 😀
And around the world, too! I watched the first series of Secret Life as a highschooler in Brisbane, and a second series studying computer science at university in Sydney... usually with a can of beer.
Your videos and contraptions have contributed to my life and memory. I am sorry to see the exhibit leave, but it must really be satisfying to know that it was so good that it lasted this long. Thank you for continuing to share. Charles
Me and the wife just visited Southwold and came across Tim's Arcade, we were so impressed, it made our day. Tim is a very clever man, we were blown away by how creative he is. Loved the "holiday in a chair," "The life of a seagull" and my personal favourite the "Fly machine". But every machine was brilliant, we were so impressed! So happy Tim has a TH-cam channel with lots of info, we shall be binge watching all the videos. 👍
I have to say your work and tv programmes were and still are today great fun and inspiration for millions of inquisitive minds out there. It's a shame that something like this can't find a permanent home somewhere to spur young minds to be the inventors of the future. They gave me hope towards the last years of "TV and Radio Servicing college" in 1988 and I ended up at Sony, then onto a long career in electronics. Thank you. Ast...
The "Tech Museum" in San Jose, California, aka Silicon Valley, went through a similar update process recently. Replaced were many authentic prototypes and displays depicting semiconductor development and other innovations that enabled today's tech driven world. The beloved stories and artifacts that embodied the garage inventor spirit of Hewlett and Packard have been summarized by iconic black turtleneck sweaters and simplistic yet impenetrable packaging that thwarts the hardware hacking that enabled high technology in the first place. All that matters now are branding and corporate image propping up share value.
It's a bit shocking how many of the 'ladders' of 20th century technology are being recycled overseas into something dreadfully cheapened. Technology seems to be getting replaced by service contracts and it's just not the same.
Whats worse is Google's AI driven advertising popped up at the end, when I paused it the still image shows a scene of historical items in display cabinets, and a person in foreground buying insurance or something on her phone. Sigh. edit and in tiny letters at the bottom terms condition apply
@@jagmarc , the other day, I was looking at TH-cam search results for videos by my favorite TH-cam anatomy professor, Sam Webster. At the top of the results was an ad for Etsy, with a photo of a woman lying under a big, knitted blanket, apparently a product one might want to buy from Etsy. The big letters above the ad said "Anatomical C l i t o r i s" (without spaces). Artificial stupidity.
I am glad that you mentioned this, I was able to flit up after work today for one last look around, even if sadly I couldn't flush the cutaway toilet a final time. I remembered it vividly from childhood trips and a couple of more recent ones. There is nothing better in a museum than physical objects in displays to look at, especially with some proper interractive things thrown in. It was pretty full today with people of all ages, so I reckon it would have plenty of life left for years to come with a little TLC. This and the TV series are largely responsible for my lifelong compulsion to disassemble broken things and attempt to repair them, even if it does mean my house looks rather like the gallery...
Thank you for all your hard work and great educational videos ! You and Rex are a true legends ! I will make sure my kids kids watch your videos . Much love from Nashville Tennessee USA
This was one of my favourite parts of the museum: it is one of the most relatable parts of the museum. It reminds people that science/engineering is everywhere. Also, it was always fun to get a peek at a bit of social history.
Ugh, what a blind spot. If I had known the exhibit existed I would have definitely made time for a visit during one of my previous visits to London. On the plus side I had great fun at your arcade in London last year.
Sad. I hope to make it to London this fall. The Secret Life of Machines remains one of the best television series ever produced to this day. Still enjoyable to rewatch decades later. I'm so thankful Tim still does these videos.
So sad to learn that such a cool exhibition exists right before it’s taken down. I would have loved to visit it, as The Secret Life Of Machines was of great inspiration for me when I was a kid. Unfortunately, I live too far away. Please make a nice video on it and allow people like me to virtually visit it, I would really appreciate. And by the way I also want to say thank you for all these videos: they not only remind me of my childhood, but are also entertaining to watch and always learn some little tricks.
Hi Tim, can I just say how much I loved 'The Secret Life of the Home' and what a miss it is! I recently took a holiday down to London, and once off the train headed straight to the Science Museum with the intention of documenting the gallery in full in 4K. Turns out I was three weeks too late, which I'm extremely disappointed about. The eclectic - even slightly eerie - nature of your work for the Science museum is becoming much rarer in museums these days, to their detriment in my view. I wish you all the best for your future projects! :)
Thank you for the warning Tim! Luckily I had Friday off and made the journey into London to enjoy your exhibit one more time. I overheard many children (and grown ups) enjoying your creations, especially the generator. It was wonderful to see it all, and even got a few people touching the refrigerators sign! I grew up watching the Secret Life programmes we had recorded on VHS.
What a shame, it looks like a wonderful exhibit. I may never get to England, so a good film exhibit may be the only way I'd get to see it. Take care Mr. Hunkin.
A great shame! Although 29 years is a long run, a lot of it remains relevant today. I live distant, but thoroughly enjoyed your gallery on the occasion I did visit. Could it be exhibited elsewhere? I've thoroughly enjoyed being educated by you, Tim, ever since your first the TV series back in the 80s!! Thank-you.
I managed to pay a last visit on Tuesday. The Science Museum was the busiest I’ve ever seen it, but it is half term. It took a while to find a lift that went down to the lower ground floor but once I was there, I spent a long time filming and photographing the Secret Life Of The Home gallery. Because I was on my own, I was able to spend as much time as I wanted looking at everything and even found some items I had never seen before. The entrance with the TV and radio displays was very dark as the ceiling lights weren’t working, a lot of the interactive displays didn’t work and the glass on the display cabinets needed a proper clean, but I was very pleased that I went out of my way for one last look. Hopefully I captured enough footage to make one or two videos to upload to TH-cam.
It would be nice if someone did a 360 video of the museum before closing. Also would be great if another museum picked up the exhibit and displayed it. It would be a shame to loose all of the old items.
No museum worth its name scatter its items. They will be stored and the exhibit will be documented. But still, they will become inaccessible to the general public until picked up by a future exhibition, so yes, a good online publication is very justified.
Yes, it's likely that the collection will end up stored away in Duxford and only parts of it are likely to be publicly displayed again in the future. It's a real shame, but it has had a really long run at the museum and I believe it was becoming hard to maintain. I really hope they invite Tim back to do something new in the future.
@@jamesharris5158So much of the Science Museum is badly planned, uninspiring and takes up an excess of space while this exhibit has more information, interaction and knowledge packed in than other entire floors. It's going to be a great loss to the science museum when it closes. Whatever replaces it will, like so much of the science museum, undoubtedly have no soul. They'd be better off repurposing the huge empty chunks of other halls than closing this and replacing it with a ball pit or whatever the plans are.
I’m so fortunate to have discovered your great productions- especially the reggae version of Take Five!! If you had hoped that you could release some of us less inventive and curious people from our chains of fears and ignorances- count on it- that you have made me skeptical of the magic and sorcery that I used to take for granted was stuffed inside those things!! You helped me defeat quite so much of my phobia that I actually repair things and invent things at a workbench now!! Know it, sir! That your endeavors have borne much fruit and for me it’s been of so much value! You have made a human being want to live life no matter the consequences!! Thanks so much for your most gracious gifts!! I’ll do what I can to preserve them to provide for even greater valuable benefits still on and on!!
You have inspired my life as a Systems Engineering Teacher for the past 25 years in Victoria, Australia. Hats off to you mate. Sad to see you go. You are a true educator and role model.
Such a shame, this has always been the best bit of the Science museum. I hope they replace it with something at least as good. Thank you for keeping me, my child and the classes of school children I have taken there educated and entertained all these years. I’ll bloody miss that turd!
"The Secret Life of the Radio" was one of the things that inspired me to study electronics, and eventually work in the radio field. I still have your program on VHS, that i watched many times.
I'm sorry to hear this. Your exhibit looks like a lot of fun. Modern museums seem to remove all the fun and interesting things and replace them with, well mostly things I can't remember.
A great loss, regrettably I never had the opportunity to see the exceptional exhibits that you crafted for both educational and entertainment of people of all age groups. May you, Tim, live long and in good health till a mechanical grim reaper of your own design comes calling….
Such a shame this is closing, it’s one of the few things I vividly remember from visiting the Science Museum as a kid and I recall spending hours down there with my dad explaining how everything on display worked. Think I last saw it about 9 years ago now and it was still an excellent exhibition. I don’t think any replacement will ever beat this one or last as long as it has!
I absolutely love this part of the science museum, always made sure we went downstairs to see it, hopefully I'll go again next weekend for the last time. It's one of those exhibits that has a wide appeal, these everyday objects we all interact with and how they work, how they used to be, how they've evolved. Such an effective exhibition.
I loved your programme - the way you and Rex explained everything was simply brilliant - the theme music too was perfect. Wonderful! I remember being fascinated when you demonstrated the fax machine - LOTS of sparks and wonderfully janky!
I visited the London science museum earlier this year with my boys aged 6. They were so fascinated by the exhibition , amazing to see how times have changed over the years! Such a shame they are removing it,. It’s most definitely worth a visit.
I have fond memories of visiting the science museum in the early sixties, on visiting again in the early 2000's I was not impressed. The management seem to place muchmore importance in creating spectacles that they can charge for, rather than curating the exibition of inventions and machinery that I remember from my childhood. Standards are falling all around us! Love all your work Tim!! Phil, East Yorks (Phil Whitley on TH-cam)
Aw, that's always been one of the highlights of my trips to the Museum! I get there every decade or so (I don't exactly live near London), and it always brings back a huge rush of memories of watching the TV series when I was (much) younger!
That was my favourite bit I only just found out today, I went down to look at it and it was closed off 😢 I was upset. Something really special about it.
I was in the UK back in the 90's; had I known it was there Id have checked it out (same for the RH&DR). But thanks for what you do, loved the series. Even my non-techie wife liked your videos. And thanks to your life-sized sewing machine I understand what a bobbin does...
I went to visit it today. A cracking exhibition - I hope all the items can be re-homed and/or put on display elsewhere. You did a great job of curating it, Tim. Also, even today - a random Tuesday - there were tons of people walking round it and enjoying interacting with the exhibits.
That's a great shame, one of my favourite exhibits, buried away in the basement. I hope the whole exhibit gets saved somehow, even if it winds up in storage somewhere like the Birningham Muesums Collection, it's better than simply being fully disassembled, dispersed or destroyed 😢
I'm so sorry to see this exhibition go. I particularly remember the refrigeration and microwave oven exhibits. I very much appreciate the contributions you have made over the years to education including some illustrations for one of the places I worked in the past, the observatory science centre in Herstmonceux, East Sussex. I hope you manage to continue this work and know that you have been a great inspiration to many an engineer.
I loved this exhibition, it really brought one back down to earth. Certainly proved that the ordinary everyday object was an extraordinary feet of technology.
This is our favorite go to place in the Science Museum. Love the toilet, the wash machine and the fridge, even a few weeks ago we were competing to get the biggest temperature difference. I huge mistake to close it. Everything always works when we visit. We also visit the "modern interactive displays and usually about 1/4 to 1/2 are out of order.
That is a big shame. I have been lucky to be going to the Science Museum since I was a 6 year old in 1961. The Secret Life of the Home is by far the best bit, visited it just after opening, there were what you might call feedback forms then and I have the honour to have mine pinned up, amongst others, I think by the vacuum cleaners. Still there when I last went a couple or so years ago. I love the fact that 3 items on display I have had, or my Mum had, and one I still have. You, Mr Hunkin, are a legend and should have a Knighthood, no mistake. Off to the SM next week for one final look, lucky that I live less than 20 miles from it.
Thank you, Tim for the effort you put I this exhibit. You have likely touched the minds of many future inventors and designers. You have, in so doing, given a great gift to mankind. Thank You
Awe I am so sad but hope one day it might get revived. Your exhibit had quite the staying power helping to many be inspired to understand engineering or to become one!!! I loved visiting museums like this in my time studying in England.
I still remember a marvelous maritime museum in the Fife area of Scotland that went from the earliest watercraft to modern day mega fishing boats. I am just glad I remember this exhibit now that you showed the images, I went in 2006 (studying to become an engineer at the time).
As an older engineer myself, I do not ever get to do any practical fun concept design like you show because it is all done using modeling. I only get a chance to get my hands on small motors when I have things to repair around the house myself which I do love making my 10-year-old Dyson keep working (hahaha) and the bits of my HVAC system which have tiny motors, or my washing machine for example. TH-cam is so great because information is just so easily accessible now as long as you have a willingness to try.
In the 1970s I have a feeling this area was the ‘children’s’ gallery. With the safe to crack, automatic door opener and reaction timers to remember a few, oh and the obligatory Van der Graf generator to make your hair stand on end. Very happy visits there.
I visited the museum in April and I'm so glad we took the time to walk through this exhibit now! It was really interesting and I wish I'd taken more photos 😭
Great work, Tim! I'm sure you never dreamed of three decades of this. Quite an accomplishment without considering your show and now this exceptional TH-cam channel. Thanks for all your work and I'm sure you'll continue to educate me and countless others. 🙏
Awww such a shame! I got a chance to walk round it once with my wife and kids but with many time constraints so I couldn’t really linger and absorb. Kept meaning to go again but now I’ve blown it. Very much looking forward to seeing your more detailed vids. 😊❤
Sad news. My son (now 31) and I visited the gallery many times as he was growing up and we both loved it - especially the toilet and upside-down ironing board. Not much to see at the SM any more, IMHO. Oh, and we loved "The Secret Life of..." series too.
I don't get to London very often, but very much enjoyed the gallery during my visit in October '22 I've not been to Bradford in many years, does the Media Museum still display your unequalled analogue TV exhibition?
I've been enjoying your genius since I was a schoolboy. You've inspired me to pursue a successful career in electronics and electro-mechanics. Every time I hear 'Take 5"..I think of you and smile.....NJ
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Please, someone film this exhibition, so we can get a glimpse of what it is.
I was at the museum around 29 years ago as a kid but can't remember this exhibit. I would really like to see it (or see it again as the case may be)!
I hope this is what Tim is promising with the longer video. Even the rapid walkthrough here is fascinating and I wish I lived close enough to come see it...
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I am on it and will be posting a complete video on the exhibit shortly 🤠
Yes, I've never been to the Science Museum too far away . I'd love to have seen this exhibition. Hope we have a longer video to enjoy Tim ,and thanks for all your amazing creations !!!👍
Hey all. I am filming it for my TH-cam Chanel Glastonbury Gabriel. There has to be a record of this fantastic work 😀
The exhibition deserves it's own museum.
Agreed, surely there's a community would love to take it.
Maybe there's crowd-sourcing to help some local community set this up?
Most underrated comment.
It is own museum.
Glastonbury Gabriel is there filming the exhibit as we speak......and will shortly have it on our channel ☺️
Wow. Tim, I must say how sad I am that your display is closing, I have tears in my eyes.
I first saw your TV program when I was a young lad back in the late 80’s here in Australia, taped them on VHS, and watched them over and over for many years.
When my wife and I were in the UK in 2006 we visited your display at the Science Museum, and I have a lovely photo of my wife playing the ‘Pong’ video game.
Your programs were a big part of keeping me interested in how things work, which has been integral to my career and my life in general, building and fixing stuff, and even developing and manufacturing products.
29 years is a huge length of time for an exhibit to run at a museum, you should be very proud.
29 years is a good run!
Outside of main exhibits, I can't think of a single display that would have lasted longer. That's an amazing achievement.
@@h3lldr0p Yeah that is unusual for an exhibit to go for that long of a time, most museums rotate the exhibits every 2 years.
My kids have seen it multiple times, and they are now in their mid-20s. We used to travel from Norfolk to the Science museum twice a year. It’s such a great place. Sorry this is going. 😢
When I was a child this was one of my favourite parts of the museum. I absolutely loved the burglar alarm and trying to dodge the light beams, messing with the TV using magnets, flushing the loo and giggling at my mum's disapproving expression... This was by far the most interactive exhibit (well, aside from the Launchpad), and although it had become very dated and a bit run-down in recent years, it will be missed. Thanks for making such a memorable exhibit :)
Aww! Glad I got to visit it and have a go on the exhibits.
Would have been a cool video to make about this one!
Today your exhibit was consistently full of people of all ages laughing, pointing, interacting and talking. It's still the best, most joyous and inspiring part of the science museum. Household science and engineering is where all of our fascinations with the world start and this part of the museum has inspired people to see the things around them in a whole different light for nearly 30 years. Thank you for inspiring so many people whilst also bringing so much laughter into into the world.
A detailed walk through video would be a great legacy for the display to live on online.
Glastonbury Gabriel is there filming as I type this.....and it will appear on our channel shortly ☺️
What a shame they are closing your display.
miss you tim, really hope you archive this as much as possible
As a 20 years old boy I would like to thank you Mr tim for your amazing content and videos.
And please don't stop😢
As a sixty something year old I would like to thank you Tim & your good pal Rex for a wonderful instruction on how things work etc. It made me an inquisitor & have the yearning to learn.
I am very sad to hear about the gallery closing, very sad.....
Many Thanks.
Jono
This was a fantastic exhibit and will be sorely missed. Thank you!
I didn't know that was yours! One of the best remaining bits of the science museum. Proper moving models, things to see and understand. Too complex for the arty types who get to run museums of course. Most museum committees seem to think that 'multimedia' is what everyone wants to see. No! Can get that on TH-cam.
Oh no Tim!
I have two lasting memories of the science museum London.
One is the enormous mill steam engine in the main hall and the other is your toilet!!
Exactly!
Then they should at least keep the toilet! Or maybe move it to an art museum, since it seems to have had such a big cultural impact.
For many years, for me, a visit to the Science Museum has included a pilgrimage to the basement for the Secret Life of the Home. The crank operated freezer, the see-through loo, with the turd return cup. And the manual washing machine. Such a joy to behold from the last two decades of visiting.
Tim, you were a huge inspiration to me with your secret life of machines series. I've watched it over and over and it actually inspired me to become an electrical engineer myself. You have such a great way of explaining things and making science and engineering understandable, interesting and fun. You are such a treasure and I can't wait to introduce my own children to the secret life of machines series when they are old enough.
He is like the Professor Proton to our world of engineering isn't he 😊😊
This was my favourite section in the museum by far. Whenever my niece came up to visit me we'd always make a special pilgrimage to South Kensington to specifically see this display. Thank you so much so the joy it has brought me and her over the years (and a bonus thank you for the C4 series inspiring the scientist in me when I was 10 or so)
A true artist. 💚
Didn't know you were the one that made that! It always stood out to me when visiting the museum, a real shame and a loss for the museum to see it being closed.
I loved Secret Life of the Home, it's a shame when it's gone. Every 2 years we went to London from the Netherlands to visit the Science Museum, we will miss Secret Life
Very sad to hear that, Mr. Hunkin.. It would be lovely if you manage to make longer video about it before it closes, since I am sure there are a lot of people who haven't seen it, but for sure would be glad to.
I hope the exhibits end up in your hands again and I'm sure you will do something just as great with it.
Your relevance extends way beyond this. Your TV shows were one of the reasons I and my cousin got into engineering. We also say "bloody cyclists" the same way even to this day... 😀
And around the world, too! I watched the first series of Secret Life as a highschooler in Brisbane, and a second series studying computer science at university in Sydney... usually with a can of beer.
in usa too
Your videos and contraptions have contributed to my life and memory. I am sorry to see the exhibit leave, but it must really be satisfying to know that it was so good that it lasted this long. Thank you for continuing to share. Charles
Me and the wife just visited Southwold and came across Tim's Arcade, we were so impressed, it made our day. Tim is a very clever man, we were blown away by how creative he is. Loved the "holiday in a chair," "The life of a seagull" and my personal favourite the "Fly machine". But every machine was brilliant, we were so impressed! So happy Tim has a TH-cam channel with lots of info, we shall be binge watching all the videos. 👍
I have to say your work and tv programmes were and still are today great fun and inspiration for millions of inquisitive minds out there. It's a shame that something like this can't find a permanent home somewhere to spur young minds to be the inventors of the future. They gave me hope towards the last years of "TV and Radio Servicing college" in 1988 and I ended up at Sony, then onto a long career in electronics. Thank you. Ast...
The "Tech Museum" in San Jose, California, aka Silicon Valley, went through a similar update process recently. Replaced were many authentic prototypes and displays depicting semiconductor development and other innovations that enabled today's tech driven world.
The beloved stories and artifacts that embodied the garage inventor spirit of Hewlett and Packard have been summarized by iconic black turtleneck sweaters and simplistic yet impenetrable packaging that thwarts the hardware hacking that enabled high technology in the first place.
All that matters now are branding and corporate image propping up share value.
It's a bit shocking how many of the 'ladders' of 20th century technology are being recycled overseas into something dreadfully cheapened. Technology seems to be getting replaced by service contracts and it's just not the same.
Museums have always refreshed and replaced exhibits, it's unusual for it to have even lasted this long.
Thank you for the second paragraph of your comment!
Whats worse is Google's AI driven advertising popped up at the end, when I paused it the still image shows a scene of historical items in display cabinets, and a person in foreground buying insurance or something on her phone. Sigh. edit and in tiny letters at the bottom terms condition apply
@@jagmarc , the other day, I was looking at TH-cam search results for videos by my favorite TH-cam anatomy professor, Sam Webster. At the top of the results was an ad for Etsy, with a photo of a woman lying under a big, knitted blanket, apparently a product one might want to buy from Etsy. The big letters above the ad said "Anatomical C l i t o r i s" (without spaces). Artificial stupidity.
I am glad that you mentioned this, I was able to flit up after work today for one last look around, even if sadly I couldn't flush the cutaway toilet a final time. I remembered it vividly from childhood trips and a couple of more recent ones. There is nothing better in a museum than physical objects in displays to look at, especially with some proper interractive things thrown in. It was pretty full today with people of all ages, so I reckon it would have plenty of life left for years to come with a little TLC. This and the TV series are largely responsible for my lifelong compulsion to disassemble broken things and attempt to repair them, even if it does mean my house looks rather like the gallery...
Thank you for all your hard work and great educational videos ! You and Rex are a true legends ! I will make sure my kids kids watch your videos . Much love from Nashville Tennessee USA
This was one of my favourite parts of the museum: it is one of the most relatable parts of the museum. It reminds people that science/engineering is everywhere. Also, it was always fun to get a peek at a bit of social history.
Ugh, what a blind spot. If I had known the exhibit existed I would have definitely made time for a visit during one of my previous visits to London. On the plus side I had great fun at your arcade in London last year.
Sad. I hope to make it to London this fall.
The Secret Life of Machines remains one of the best television series ever produced to this day. Still enjoyable to rewatch decades later. I'm so thankful Tim still does these videos.
So sad to learn that such a cool exhibition exists right before it’s taken down. I would have loved to visit it, as The Secret Life Of Machines was of great inspiration for me when I was a kid. Unfortunately, I live too far away. Please make a nice video on it and allow people like me to virtually visit it, I would really appreciate. And by the way I also want to say thank you for all these videos: they not only remind me of my childhood, but are also entertaining to watch and always learn some little tricks.
This was my favourite part of the Science Museum! Didn't know you were behind it!
Hi Tim, can I just say how much I loved 'The Secret Life of the Home' and what a miss it is! I recently took a holiday down to London, and once off the train headed straight to the Science Museum with the intention of documenting the gallery in full in 4K. Turns out I was three weeks too late, which I'm extremely disappointed about. The eclectic - even slightly eerie - nature of your work for the Science museum is becoming much rarer in museums these days, to their detriment in my view. I wish you all the best for your future projects! :)
Thank you for the warning Tim! Luckily I had Friday off and made the journey into London to enjoy your exhibit one more time. I overheard many children (and grown ups) enjoying your creations, especially the generator. It was wonderful to see it all, and even got a few people touching the refrigerators sign! I grew up watching the Secret Life programmes we had recorded on VHS.
That's a massive "exhibit": more like a full mini-museum all by itself! 😊
What a shame, it looks like a wonderful exhibit. I may never get to England, so a good film exhibit may be the only way I'd get to see it. Take care Mr. Hunkin.
I WISH I HAD HEARD ABOUT THIS IN MAY.... I would've LOVED to see this exhibit!!
A great shame! Although 29 years is a long run, a lot of it remains relevant today. I live distant, but thoroughly enjoyed your gallery on the occasion I did visit. Could it be exhibited elsewhere? I've thoroughly enjoyed being educated by you, Tim, ever since your first the TV series back in the 80s!! Thank-you.
Definitely as a practical piece of local industry history.
I wanted to pop in and say I love your videos and have learned a LOT from them,
Thank you for uploading them here for us to enjoy!
Love from Canada
I managed to pay a last visit on Tuesday. The Science Museum was the busiest I’ve ever seen it, but it is half term. It took a while to find a lift that went down to the lower ground floor but once I was there, I spent a long time filming and photographing the Secret Life Of The Home gallery.
Because I was on my own, I was able to spend as much time as I wanted looking at everything and even found some items I had never seen before. The entrance with the TV and radio displays was very dark as the ceiling lights weren’t working, a lot of the interactive displays didn’t work and the glass on the display cabinets needed a proper clean, but I was very pleased that I went out of my way for one last look.
Hopefully I captured enough footage to make one or two videos to upload to TH-cam.
How about a last day party!
VERY SAD I have been a great fan of Tim and Rex since his series on TV - You are a genius Tim😪
thank you for all the work youve done over the years!
It would be nice if someone did a 360 video of the museum before closing. Also would be great if another museum picked up the exhibit and displayed it. It would be a shame to loose all of the old items.
No museum worth its name scatter its items. They will be stored and the exhibit will be documented. But still, they will become inaccessible to the general public until picked up by a future exhibition, so yes, a good online publication is very justified.
Yes, it's likely that the collection will end up stored away in Duxford and only parts of it are likely to be publicly displayed again in the future.
It's a real shame, but it has had a really long run at the museum and I believe it was becoming hard to maintain. I really hope they invite Tim back to do something new in the future.
@@jamesharris5158So much of the Science Museum is badly planned, uninspiring and takes up an excess of space while this exhibit has more information, interaction and knowledge packed in than other entire floors. It's going to be a great loss to the science museum when it closes. Whatever replaces it will, like so much of the science museum, undoubtedly have no soul. They'd be better off repurposing the huge empty chunks of other halls than closing this and replacing it with a ball pit or whatever the plans are.
Went on Thursday, glad I saw it. Great work Tim.
I’m so fortunate to have discovered your great productions- especially the reggae version of Take Five!! If you had hoped that you could release some of us less inventive and curious people from our chains of fears and ignorances- count on it- that you have made me skeptical of the magic and sorcery that I used to take for granted was stuffed inside those things!! You helped me defeat quite so much of my phobia that I actually repair things and invent things at a workbench now!! Know it, sir! That your endeavors have borne much fruit and for me it’s been of so much value! You have made a human being want to live life no matter the consequences!! Thanks so much for your most gracious gifts!! I’ll do what I can to preserve them to provide for even greater valuable benefits still on and on!!
Such a great exhibition. I used to go there regularly on my lunch hour. My kids loved it too.
Growing up with your television series makes me very sad to know that I will never see this exhibit. Thanks for putting all of that work in.
You have inspired my life as a Systems Engineering Teacher for the past 25 years in Victoria, Australia. Hats off to you mate. Sad to see you go. You are a true educator and role model.
Wonderful.
I am so pleased that I saw it - several times!
Such a shame, this has always been the best bit of the Science museum. I hope they replace it with something at least as good. Thank you for keeping me, my child and the classes of school children I have taken there educated and entertained all these years. I’ll bloody miss that turd!
"The Secret Life of the Radio" was one of the things that inspired me to study electronics, and eventually work in the radio field. I still have your program on VHS, that i watched many times.
You're a legend, Tim. There will never be another one like you.
I'm sorry to hear this. Your exhibit looks like a lot of fun. Modern museums seem to remove all the fun and interesting things and replace them with, well mostly things I can't remember.
Goodness knows how many people have been inspired by your fantastic exhibition Tim . Think I’ve seen it at least 5 times .
Noooo!! this was, in my view, the best exhibit at the science museum!!
A great loss, regrettably I never had the opportunity to see the exceptional exhibits that you crafted for both educational and entertainment of people of all age groups.
May you, Tim, live long and in good health till a mechanical grim reaper of your own design comes calling….
Such a shame this is closing, it’s one of the few things I vividly remember from visiting the Science Museum as a kid and I recall spending hours down there with my dad explaining how everything on display worked. Think I last saw it about 9 years ago now and it was still an excellent exhibition. I don’t think any replacement will ever beat this one or last as long as it has!
Nothing lasts forever. :(
But thank you for the brief spark of wonder! :)
It was the reason for taking my nephews and neice to the museum. They still remember it with great affection.
I absolutely love this part of the science museum, always made sure we went downstairs to see it, hopefully I'll go again next weekend for the last time. It's one of those exhibits that has a wide appeal, these everyday objects we all interact with and how they work, how they used to be, how they've evolved. Such an effective exhibition.
I loved your programme - the way you and Rex explained everything was simply brilliant - the theme music too was perfect. Wonderful!
I remember being fascinated when you demonstrated the fax machine - LOTS of sparks and wonderfully janky!
I visited the London science museum earlier this year with my boys aged 6. They were so fascinated by the exhibition , amazing to see how times have changed over the years! Such a shame they are removing it,. It’s most definitely worth a visit.
I have fond memories of visiting the science museum in the early sixties, on visiting again in the early 2000's I was not impressed. The management seem to place muchmore importance in creating spectacles that they can charge for, rather than curating the exibition of inventions and machinery that I remember from my childhood. Standards are falling all around us! Love all your work Tim!!
Phil, East Yorks (Phil Whitley on TH-cam)
Aw, that's always been one of the highlights of my trips to the Museum! I get there every decade or so (I don't exactly live near London), and it always brings back a huge rush of memories of watching the TV series when I was (much) younger!
That was my favourite bit I only just found out today, I went down to look at it and it was closed off 😢 I was upset. Something really special about it.
Paid my respects, took the eldest last weekend… he was also reminiscing about the soft play and the size of the “seating stairs” in the basement!
I was in the UK back in the 90's; had I known it was there Id have checked it out (same for the RH&DR). But thanks for what you do, loved the series. Even my non-techie wife liked your videos. And thanks to your life-sized sewing machine I understand what a bobbin does...
Very sad to see that go; WHAT could they possibly put in its place? Your display is what people NEED to learn about...
I went a couple of weeks ago and it was in a sorry state, uncared for and much in need of repair. So sad to see it go but also understand why.
Perhaps they might come up with something new along the same lines
Thank you! Looking forward to the video!
I went to visit it today. A cracking exhibition - I hope all the items can be re-homed and/or put on display elsewhere. You did a great job of curating it, Tim. Also, even today - a random Tuesday - there were tons of people walking round it and enjoying interacting with the exhibits.
That's a great shame, one of my favourite exhibits, buried away in the basement. I hope the whole exhibit gets saved somehow, even if it winds up in storage somewhere like the Birningham Muesums Collection, it's better than simply being fully disassembled, dispersed or destroyed 😢
I'm so sorry to see this exhibition go. I particularly remember the refrigeration and microwave oven exhibits.
I very much appreciate the contributions you have made over the years to education including some illustrations for one of the places I worked in the past, the observatory science centre in Herstmonceux, East Sussex.
I hope you manage to continue this work and know that you have been a great inspiration to many an engineer.
I loved this exhibition, it really brought one back down to earth. Certainly proved that the ordinary everyday object was an extraordinary feet of technology.
This is our favorite go to place in the Science Museum. Love the toilet, the wash machine and the fridge, even a few weeks ago we were competing to get the biggest temperature difference. I huge mistake to close it. Everything always works when we visit. We also visit the "modern interactive displays and usually about 1/4 to 1/2 are out of order.
That is a big shame. I have been lucky to be going to the Science Museum since I was a 6 year old in 1961. The Secret Life of the Home is by far the best bit, visited it just after opening, there were what you might call feedback forms then and I have the honour to have mine pinned up, amongst others, I think by the vacuum cleaners. Still there when I last went a couple or so years ago. I love the fact that 3 items on display I have had, or my Mum had, and one I still have. You, Mr Hunkin, are a legend and should have a Knighthood, no mistake. Off to the SM next week for one final look, lucky that I live less than 20 miles from it.
Defo on the knighthood.
I would love to see the museum of science and industry in Chicago Illinois pick this up. The museum certainly is big enough to do so.
If I'd known this existed, I'd have made a point to attend it when I went to London the last couple of times!
So sorry to hear this, but what an achievement! Well done and many thanks Mr. Hunkin.
Thank you, Tim for the effort you put I this exhibit. You have likely touched the minds of many future inventors and designers. You have, in so doing, given a great gift to mankind.
Thank You
Awe I am so sad but hope one day it might get revived. Your exhibit had quite the staying power helping to many be inspired to understand engineering or to become one!!! I loved visiting museums like this in my time studying in England.
I still remember a marvelous maritime museum in the Fife area of Scotland that went from the earliest watercraft to modern day mega fishing boats. I am just glad I remember this exhibit now that you showed the images, I went in 2006 (studying to become an engineer at the time).
As an older engineer myself, I do not ever get to do any practical fun concept design like you show because it is all done using modeling. I only get a chance to get my hands on small motors when I have things to repair around the house myself which I do love making my 10-year-old Dyson keep working (hahaha) and the bits of my HVAC system which have tiny motors, or my washing machine for example. TH-cam is so great because information is just so easily accessible now as long as you have a willingness to try.
I had no idea this was there when I was working in their museum! Such a shame I'll miss it
It's got sowing machines in it! Proper ones, not the showy offy ones. It shall be missed. I'll visit, again.
In the 1970s I have a feeling this area was the ‘children’s’ gallery. With the safe to crack, automatic door opener and reaction timers to remember a few, oh and the obligatory Van der Graf generator to make your hair stand on end. Very happy visits there.
I love your work Tim... thx from NZ
I visited the museum in April and I'm so glad we took the time to walk through this exhibit now! It was really interesting and I wish I'd taken more photos 😭
Great work, Tim! I'm sure you never dreamed of three decades of this. Quite an accomplishment without considering your show and now this exceptional TH-cam channel. Thanks for all your work and I'm sure you'll continue to educate me and countless others. 🙏
So glad I got to see it many times - a work of genius! 29 years is great, but still sad to see it go.
Awww such a shame! I got a chance to walk round it once with my wife and kids but with many time constraints so I couldn’t really linger and absorb. Kept meaning to go again but now I’ve blown it. Very much looking forward to seeing your more detailed vids. 😊❤
I wonder how many of the other exhibits will last this long. I remember going to this the first week it opened.
I loved the fake foods in the freezer
I loved your tv show and was lucky enough to see the exhibit in 2015. Great tune for the opening theme tune on show too.
Sad news. My son (now 31) and I visited the gallery many times as he was growing up and we both loved it - especially the toilet and upside-down ironing board. Not much to see at the SM any more, IMHO. Oh, and we loved "The Secret Life of..." series too.
I don't get to London very often, but very much enjoyed the gallery during my visit in October '22
I've not been to Bradford in many years, does the Media Museum still display your unequalled analogue TV exhibition?
I've been enjoying your genius since I was a schoolboy. You've inspired me to pursue a successful career in electronics and electro-mechanics. Every time I hear 'Take 5"..I think of you and smile.....NJ
I went to the science museum and was surprised to see your work there! It was an amazing exhibit, very sad to see it go!
Oh no! I remember going down to London to see it as a child!