National Lottery Open Week – 15-17 March
The Brunel Museum will be taking part in National Lottery Open Week with a special offer of free entry for National Lottery players Go 16m underground in a tour of the Thames Tunnel Shaft with our volunteer guide and discover why Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s first project was almost his last This offer will run during …
Brunel Museum at London Transport Museum Depot
The Eighth Wonder of the World? The Brunels’ Thames Tunnel at the London Transport Museum’s Depot in Acton Find out all about how the Thames Tunnel became the world’s first subterranean river crossing and ‘underwater shopping arcade’, how Marc Brunel’s engineering designs were influenced by a very unlikely source and why the tunnel eventually …
Open House Weekend 2024
Visit the Brunel Museum for free as part of Open House Weekend 2024!
Queer as Folklore Film Season
Join any Pride march and you are likely to see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads trailing sequins, drag queens wearing mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. But these are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots. To celebrate the launch of Queer …
The Wizard of Oz (1939) – Part of Queer as Folklore Film season
As the live action version of gravity defying Broadway and West End musical Wicked hits our screens, revisit the 1939 classic Wizard of Oz. Dorothy (Judy Garland) is an innocent farm girl who gets swept away in a tornado with her dog Toto. She arrives in a magical place called Oz. While trying to find …
The Little Mermaid – Part of Queer as Folklore Film Season
Rebellious 16-year-old mermaid Ariel is fascinated with life on land. On one of her visits to the surface, which are forbidden by her controlling father, King Triton, she falls for a human prince. Determined to be with her new love, Ariel makes a dangerous deal with the sea witch Ursula to become human for three …