The Tunnellers Club 2025
Join us this June as the Tunnellers Club returns with a brand-new series of hands-on, eco-friendly workshops designed especially for families with children aged 5–11. Since launching in October 2022, the Tunnellers Club has welcomed families into the fascinating world of science, engineering, and invention, inspired by the Thames Tunnel and its brilliant builders. This …
Playday 2025 at the Brunel Museum
Join us at the Brunel Museum this summer for National Playday 2025, a fun-filled celebration of creativity, community, and sustainability, part of our Summer of Sustainability programme. This year’s theme is all about upcycling crafts, also known as creative reuse: the art of transforming waste materials and unwanted items into imaginative new creations. Our main …
Travel These Ways: Hithertones Vocal Ensemble
Join Hithertones Vocal Ensemble for a rich mix of contemporary choral music in the sublime acoustics of the Brunel Museum. Our debut concert-with-a-theme, Travel These Ways will still feature the eclectic range of genres that Hithertones have come to be known for – a cappella, folk, jazz and popular and contemporary classical.Highlights to include Ola …
October Half-Term Activities – French Révolution Season
As part of our French Révolution Season, try your hand at some fun craft activities during October half-term! Fan-Making Inspired by Mary Horsley’s beautiful hand-painted fan on display in the gallery for the very first time, families are invited to design their own hand-held fan. Origami Flower Making Inspired by the paper flowers made by …
Herbal Remedies – Make Your Own Summer Tonic
Discover the healing properties of a number of summertime herbs in the beautiful garden at the Brunel Museum.
Fix it at the Brunel Museum
Join us at the Brunel Museum for a special edition of Time & Talents’ popular Repair Café — part of our exciting Summer of Sustainability initiative! Give your broken household items a second chance. Bring along your dodgy toaster, wobbly chair, or favourite jumper in need of extra care, and let the expert Time & …
St Martin Voices Underground – Summertime
Join the St Martin’s Voices for an evening of summer favourites at the Brunel Museum. Performances take place at 6.30pm and 7.45pm, and each lasts around 45 minutes. The museum bar will be serving wine and beer in Brunel’s candlelit roof garden immediately above the tunnel shaft from 5:30pm. Guests for either performance are welcome to …
St Martin Voices Underground – Fairest Isle
St Martin’s Voices present a journey around Britain and Ireland in the form of folk songs, old and new, at the Brunel Museum. The museum bar will be serving wine and beer in Brunel’s candlelit roof garden immediately above the tunnel shaft from 5:30pm. Guests for either performance are welcome to join us from 5:30pm …
St Martin Voices Underground – The Silver Swan
Join the St Martin’s Voices for a delightful evening of madrigals, old and new, at the Brunel Museum. The museum bar will be serving wine and beer in Brunel’s roof garden immediately above the tunnel shaft/or in the Engine House ground floor if will be raining – from 5:30pm. Guests for either performance are welcome …
French Révolution Season 2025
In 2006, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted the second greatest Briton of all time, just after Winston Churchill. But did you know that Marc Brunel, his father and architect of the Thames Tunnel, was French? Forced to flee during the French Revolution which began in 1789, Marc Brunel made his name in the UK. In fact, …