Broadcast Engineering Museum 2026 open days

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Our grand weekend opening for Heritage Open Days will be on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September. 11am to 4pm both days. Admission is free!

Our friends from the Museum of RAF Firefighting: https://firemuseum.uk/ will behaving their first open days at their new premises, less than five minutes walk from the Broadcast Engineering Museum.

In conjunction with the Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum https://www.lvvs.org.uk/ we are pleased to offer a vintage shuttle bus, on Sunday 20th only, between bus stop opposite Lincoln Railway Station (St Mary’s Street) and the Broadcast Engineering Museum.

Depart Lincoln (St Mary's street): 10:30 am and 1:30 pmfile:///mnt/D/BECG/articles/mailings/september_2026/september_2026_poster_v2.pdf

Depart Broadcast Engineering Museum: 1 pm and 4 pm
Journey time approximately 30 minutes

This service is provided free of charge but donations are very much appreciated.

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What a weekend! We had more than 230 visitors over the two days, a new record.

Not long now until our next regular open day on Sunday 4th October. We have a special event: Iain Betson will have a display about cold war broadcasting and will be talking about the subject.

From the 1950s to the 1990s, if the Cold War had turned hot, the Government had well-laid plans for what to do in the event of a nuclear strike on Britain. Part of those plans was the implementation of the BBC-produced, but Government-directed, Wartime Broadcasting Service: A single national radio station that would have replaced ALL radio and TV services in the UK.

Originally conceived to provide both information and boost the morale of survivors whilst they waited for rescue, it morphed into a mouthpiece to tell the nation how they might survive after the H-Bomb was dropped and the recovery of the country afterwards.

But for many it would have been the last voice they ever heard...

Using a multimedia presentation of images, audio, video, AI recreations, first-hand memories of the people who ran it and declassified documents, Iain Betson tells the story of this little-known piece of Cold War history: Where would it have been broadcast from? What would have been heard? (you would be surprised!)

Who, in the event of an attack, would have descended into the bunkers to broadcast it?

And does such a service exist today?

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Our last open day in 2026 will be on Sunday 1st November. We look forward to seeing you.

We've finalised our open days for 2027. First Sunday of every month from April to November, except September when we're open for the weekend 18/19 as part of Heritage Open Days.

Admission still £8 for adults. 25% discount throughout 2027 for BVWS members who present a current membership card.