As fans around the world prepare for the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, a new exhibition charts the history of the technical innovations that helped make the competition a global phenomenon. Essentially an experiment in transnational live broadcasting, the first Eurovision Song Contest was no easy feat. Engineers had to work out how to transmit live pictures from the Teatro Kursaal in Lugano, Switzeralnd, via microwave relay towers and terrestrial links that had to cross mountains, borders and