National Science and Media museum in Bradford to close for £6m refurb

Year-long revamp intended to inspire next generation of creatives, inventors and scientists' and tie in with city's 2025 stint as capital of culture

The National Science and Media museum is to close for a year for a radical, once-in-a-generation" revamp that will allow more visitors to attend and provide the ability to tell stories in a more dynamic way, bosses say.

The museum in Bradford has a vast, dizzyingly diverse collection of more than 3.2m objects, from the first photographic negative to the original puppet of Zippy from Rainbow.