Apollo Remastered at the Williamson Art Gallery

Name: Apollo Remastered at the Williamson Art Gallery
Start: 2023-04-28T10:30:00
End: 2023-09-03T17:00:00
Location: Williamson Art Gallery

Maja Lorkowska, Exhibitions Editor Last Updated 16 April 2023

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Apollo Remastered at the Williamson Art Gallery

Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead

28 April-3 September 2023

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The Williamson Art Gallery looks back in time to the Apollo space missions with the new show Apollo Remastered.

The display features spectacular, large-scale image from Andy Saunders – best-selling author, science writer, and one of the world’s foremost experts of NASA digital restoration.

The original photographic film is securely kept in a frozen vault at Johnson Space Center in Houston. While many of us already know these images which circulate widely online, they have only ever been produced in lower-quality copies. Apollo Remastered gives audiences a chance to come face to face with these history-defining images in the highest quality, after a painstaking process of enhancement.

The exhibition is the biggest of its kind staged anywhere in the world to date.

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