Museum Shop Sunday
Get your Christmas shopping done early at the Brunel Museum! 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 26 November for all your Christmas shopping needs. …
Book Talk: Iron, Stone and Steam
Join us for an evening with Tim Bryan, author of Iron, Stone and Steam: Brunel’s Railway Empire. Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Victorian icon, engineer, artist, architect, designer and visionary, entrepreneur and celebrity. Tim Bryan’s new book tells the story of Brunel’s awe-inspiring achievements and innovations as a railway engineer. In almost thirty tumultuous years, Brunel created a …
Archive Talks at the LMA – Thames Tunnel Watercolours
(£25 per person – includes copy of the Brunels’ Tunnel guidebook; 90 minutes approx.) The Brunel Museum is hosting a series of special talks and viewings at the London Metropolitan Archives where we will display our beautiful collection of Marc Brunel’s watercolours, sketches and early designs of the Thames Tunnel. In 2017, the Brunel Museum …
NEW DATE: Brunel Museum Reinvented Community Open Evening
We’re delighted to welcome back members of the local community and supporters of the museum to hear about updates from the Brunel Museum Reinvented Project. Full programme to be announced shortly.
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!