Wild Things Gardening Club – 28 May 2026
Join us at the Brunel Museum for Wild Things Gardening Club, a hands-on session where children can explore nature and discover the wonders of the garden. Through simple gardening activities and nature-inspired crafts, children will learn about plants, insects and the natural world while spending time outdoors. Sessions take place in the Rooftop Garden at …
Shall We Gather…? Hithertones at the Brunel Museum
“Immersive” … “hopeful” … “sublime” … with heartening reviews from audience & singers following our sold-out concert last year, Hithertones return this year to present another stunning evening of choral music in the sublime underground acoustics of the Brunel Museum. Hithertones will present the eclectic range of genres that we have come to be known …
National Playday 2026 at the Brunel Museum
Join us at the Brunel Museum this summer for National Playday 2026, a free family event celebrating play, creativity, and the remarkable engineering legacy of Marc and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
The Tunnellers Club
The Tunnellers Club is Back! Fun, hands-on STEM activities for curious young minds and their families at the Brunel Museum.
The Lost Boy: a new opera by Jago Thornton and Anastasia Bruce-Jones
A gripping new opera by composer Jago Thornton and Librettist Anastasia Bruce-Jones, The Lost Boy tells the tragic love story between two teenagers set in a provincial 1980s fishing village. With a score that blends 1980s synthesisers and contemporary classical music, the opera wrestles with the themes of identity and belonging. This production is a collaboration …
MARCINIQUE: The Lost Island of Brunel 1790±3 – PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
An allegorical map that plots the background, life and influence of the celebrated engineer, inventor and entrepreneur Marc Brunel. Designer of “The Eighth Wonder of the World” aka The Thames Tunnel. In 1787, Marc volunteered for the French navy and was stationed in Martinique. Very little is known about this seminal and formative period of …
Open House Festival 2026
Open House Festival at the Brunel Museum Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 September 2026 Free admission Visit the Brunel Museum for Open House Festival 2026, with free guided tours throughout the weekend and a special exhibition exploring a lesser-known chapter in Marc Brunel’s story. Visitors will be able to explore the Museum, including the historic …
Underground Comedy
Jokes and learning are back in the big hole in the ground! Join the Brunel Museum for a night of laughing all about our theme of The Underground. The Amuseum have assembled a brilliant lineup of professional comedians, University researchers and museum experts to make you laugh about every aspect of what lies beneath our …
Underground Pub Quiz
How much do you know about subterranean London? Think you can ace a quiz about Tube stations, sewers, wartime bunkers, catacombs and tombs? Then come along to this unique quiz, held inside ‘subterranean royalty’: the shaft of Marc Brunel’s Thames tunnel. Matt Brown of Londonist Time Machine has 50 questions to tantalise and tease, in …
Halloween Tours
Our guides in Victorian costume will lead you on a lantern lit stroll around historic Rotherhithe, exploring its dark and grisly past. This walk is not for the faint-hearted; expect gruesome tales, a graveyard, a mortuary and a gibbet, all in close proximity to the dark and dangerous River Thames. Our spooky Halloween walk will …