Tales of Teredo Navalis for Schools
Why should families have all the fun? This Spring term introduce your class to Terry, the Teredo Navalis, otherwise known as a ship worm! Discover how his tunnelling technique inspired Marc Brunel about how to build the Thames Tunnel! Cost: £4 per child. Accompanying adults free. To book, please email hello@thebrunelmuseum.com stating the date you’d …
Earth Day 2023: Live shipworm demonstration
Join us at the Brunel Museum on April 22, 2023, for a special day of our exhibition Tales of Teredo Navalis in celebration of Earth Day! From 11am to 12:30pm, visitors can explore the fascinating world of shipworms and take part the Wild Escape project.
Tunnellers Club – Sessions 7 and 8
Established in November 2022, the “Tunnellers Club” is open to families and children and held at the Brunel Museum on a monthly basis.
Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series 22-23: Resonant Chamber
Deep underground where the water crosses land, we enter a subterranean space of brick, concrete and iron. This industrial artefact, he world’s first caisson, offers an echo of labours, of sweat and of ambition stands as a silent monument, a reverberant void. Resonant Chamber explores the power of combining architecture, live performance and recorded …
Tales of Teredo Navalis
Our popular family exhibition is returning for May half-term!
Stay Grounded Workshop
The Brunels changed the way we travelled forever. Marc Brunel designed the worlds first tunelling shield laying the foundation for future tunnelling projects like Js2, Crossrail and the Channel tunnel. His son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel who learnt his craft on the Thames Tunnel project designed train lines that continue to cross cross the country today, …
Cancelled – Blue Machine – with Helen Czerski
This event has had to be cancelled. If you have purchased a ticket, you will be issued a full refund. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told – that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean engine itself: what …
SYRINX @ Thames Tunnel Shaft
Description Join SYRINX for an evening of vocal music in the stunning acoustic of Brunel’s Thames Tunnel Shaft. Sit back and soak up the sounds as SYRINX bring this amazing space to life, while 50 voices ring around the circular chamber. The choir will present a tapestry of songs and sounds, old and new, including new arrangements of works by Cosmo Sheldrake, Laura Mvula, Fleet …
Brunel, Dickens and Sanitary Reform in the 19th Century
Please note this event is not taking place at the Brunel Museum. Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Charles Dickens like you might not know them We’re teaming up with the Association of Anaesthetists and Dickens Museum to bring you stories of toxic tunnels, workers’ rights and public health in Victorian London! Gill Howard …
HEXAD – After Byrd: St Peter | St Paul | The Assumption
HEXAD Collective presents the second concert in their series AFTER BYRD: exploring hidden music in hidden spaces. This time we go underground: to Brunel’s tunnel shaft in Rotherhithe. Here the group will present music by Byrd, McDowall, Aleotti, Leonarda, Casulana and composer-singers Piers Kennedy and Anna Semple. This event is in partnership with Midnight Apothecary …