Brunel Museum awarded Costume Society’s Daphne Bullard Grant for Brunel’s Buckles Project
We are very pleased to announce that the Brunel Museum has been awarded the Costume Society’s Daphne Bullard Grant 2024. We are very grateful to the Costume Society, who previously supported the Museum in 2022 with an Elizabeth Hammond Grant, to enable conservation work on a Thames Tunnel kerchief. Without their continued support, much of …
Did you create a tile for the Ship of Blueprints in 2004?
We’re seeking the child artists who were involved in the creation of the Ship of Blueprints on the Musuem site in 2004. The Ship of Blueprints is a community-led artwork. It was made in 2004 with artist Martin Cottis and Liz Leyh, made with local children from Adams Gardens and Swan Road estates. It currently sits outside the …
We’re reinventing the Brunel Museum!
We’re reinventing the Brunel Museum for 2025! The Brunel Museum has announced that it will close in September 2024 for their Brunel Museum Reinvented project, thanks to a £1.85million grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project will see the site transformed to a more inclusive and accessible space to tell …
Brunel Museum Reinvented – Your Questions Answered
We’re excited to be reinventing the Brunel Museum in time for the 200th anniversary of the Thames Tunnel in 2025! We know there will be lots of questions along the way. We’ve tried to answer the most commonly answered ones below, but if you have any more questions about the project, please email us on …
Work Experience at The Brunel Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BflQn8jyaM Hello, we are Ismael and Jake, and we have come from Haberdashers’ Borough Academy and Bacon’s College for our work experience here at the Brunel Museum. During our time here, we have learnt a lot about the history of the museum and the artifacts it contains. When we first arrived, we learnt about the …
The Brunel Museum launches a new audioguide!
Last week, the Museum launched a new audioguide which allows visitors to learn in-depth information about items on display – all for free. Next time you visit, why not try it out? All you’ll need to do is scan the QR code next to the objects to be taken to a dedicated webpage where you …
Mud, Flood & Fire shortlisted for Museums and Heritage Award
Today (Thursday, March 14, 2024) the Brunel Museum has been shortlisted alongside four other nominees for the annual Museums + Heritage Awards. The global awards celebrate the very best in the world of museums, galleries, and cultural and heritage visitor attractions and will take place on the evening of Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at Hilton Park …
International Women’s Day: Brunel Museum Tour Guide is working on a historical crime novel that sees Emma Brunel act as an amateur sleuth. Here’s why
Emma Joan Brunel was the sister of civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. However, little is actually know about her. She is merely a footnote in the numerous biographies about her famous brother. But the few facts that I was able to unearth suggest that she was an extraordinary woman in her own right. Emma was …
Julian Ayre returns to the Brunel Museum Reinvented Project
Julian was involved with developing the Brunel Museum Reinvented Project in 2020-22 as Heritage Manager. He is now back with the Brunel and says, ‘It’s great to be back to manage the delivery of this brilliant project and I’m looking forward to working with the museum’s staff and volunteers and the design team getting the …
A Year with ‘Sophia’s Story’
As we wrap up the first year of ‘Sophia’s Story,’ funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, the journey unfolds with achievements, lessons, and a deep sense of purpose on our way to improving gender representation in engineering and inspiring children to embrace STEM education. In the first year of ‘Sophia’s Story,’ we sponsored five …