An organization in the U.K. called the Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group has put together a museum filled with vintage analogue TV equipment that is now long since out of date. But it's a pretty amazing display. You can check out old broadcast cameras, tape-based VTRs and even a test colour picture almost as if you were there.

The idea is to preserve the now mostly out-of-date material and you can take a 3D tour of the place online, zooming in on each one, with details of what the equipment did and what it was called. And there are even a few surprises. 

According to the BBC:

"One of the star items in the collection is a TV camera used to broadcast the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

 After spending around 25 years in a rubbish tip, it has been cosmetically restored. "It's been seen in many [film and TV] productions," Dr Marshall said.

"One of them was in the Crown where it played itself, as it were: one of the cameras in their recreation of the coronation."

This isn't for everyone, but those who dealt with or had to fix this kind of stuff in earlier years may be interested in seeing it restored to its original state - and presumably still in working order. If nothing else, it's a neat use of technology to take the virtual tour. 

Enter it here.