SDC Colour Museum, Bradford

[Photos - top - illustrating Tungsten filament test for metamarism, 

middle - spectrophotometre (enables accurate colour measurement to allow digital colour communication, 

bottom - different visions - normal, red deficient, green deficient and blue deficient.]

Finally went to the Colour Museum in Bradford today. We spent 5 hours travelling there and back.  It's quite a small museum run by the SDC and it's by appointment only. 

I hadn't realised that the exhibition is primarily aimed at school children with lots of interactive elements, buttons to press, films to watch and dials to turn to make colour very accessible and interesting.  It also covers a wide range of topics from printing colours, dye methods and printing styles. Although it was well done it was a little disappointing for me as apart from some of the tests there was nothing new.  

There was an interactive display board about Max Luscher which I was really pleased to see, but they laid it out as a game which is not really right as the book states it should be treated seriously.

The colour studies by Sydney Harry in their retrospective were particularly well done, beautifully neat and well presented.  There were also display cases about William Perkins an entrepreneur who invented synthetic dyes in the nineteenth century.