Christmas at the Brunel Museum
Christmas at The Brunel Museum Museum Shop Sunday – Get your Christmas Shopping Done Early Socks printed with Isambard Kingdom Brunel? A tea towel representing the Grand Opening of the Thames Tunnel? If you’re looking for something unusual for the engineer in your life, then head to the Brunel Museum on Sunday 28 November …
Brunel Volunteers recognised at London Heritage Volunteer Awards
We were delighted to be shortlisted in not one, not two, but THREE categories in the London Volunteer Heritage Awards today. These awards recognise the best of the best of the amazingly dedicated and loyal volunteers that help London’s Museums run. Highly Commended – Best Team The entire Brunel Museum team were recognised for …
Director’s Blog – September 2021
September’s been a very transitional month – and not just because the weather can’t seem to make up its mind! We’re looking ahead to being able to do more over the next couple of months, and we’re excited to share what we’ve got planned for you. October Half-Term We’ve got lots of fun activities for …
Memorials: #IKBAndMe
It’s the time of year where we honour the anniversary of the death of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by celebrating his life. He achieved many impressive feats of engineering and developed significant portions of England’s infrastructure (some of his structures are still in use today, 162 years after his death). Isambard died at 10:30pm on Thursday …
Director’s Blog – August 2021
It felt amazing to open our doors an extra day of the week in August – the first time we’ve been open more than 2 days a week since last year! We hosted an exhibition by Accelerate students, who visited us in December as part of their course. It was wonderful to see the students …
Brunel Museum shortlisted for Southwark Business Award
We are delighted to share that our online escape room, Tunnelling through Time, has been shortlisted for a Southwark Business Award! The game, which invites players to complete a number of tasks, has been shortlisted for the Business Pivot Award. This category recognises the remarkable efforts some businesses have gone to diversify or adapt their …
Sustainability at the Brunel Museum
Yesterday, 9 August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its long awaited report stating, unsurprisingly to many interested in tackling the climate emergency, that Climate Change is man-made, and we have until the end of the decade to reverse the worst effects of global heating. It seems there is no better time therefore for …
Family Fridays at the Brunel Museum this August
From Friday 6 August, families will be able to enjoy the Museum an extra day of the week, as well as some brilliant family activities. There is a family friendly storytelling session on Friday 20 August, with author Robert Guidi. Guidi’s novel, Isambard and the Cato Street conspiracy, tells the story of a 16-year-old Isambard Kingdom Brunel who …
Summer Art Competition
Congratulations to the winners of our Art Competition who receive £25 of Love2Shop vouchers and a free trip to the museum. If you would like to see the winning entries and more about the choices (and judges), click here: Art Competition Winners.
Director’s Blog – July 2021
Wedding bells have been ringing at the Brunel Museum this month, with three couples already getting hitched at our venue and another planned at the end of the month. As well as helping to secure the Museum’s financial future, it’s such an honour for me that couples would choose to spend such an important day …