Brunel Museum staff get pay rise following increase in Living Wage
The Brunel Museum has given its most junior staff a pay rise, effective immediately, following the increase in the Living Wage, announced by the Living Wage Foundation. The Museum has been an accredited Living Wage employer since June 2021. To retain Living Wage status, organisations must implement the increase by 14 May 2023 at the …
Brunel Museum becomes first museum to join Climate Perks scheme
Brunel Museum has become the first museum to sign up to the sustainable travel employee benefits scheme Climate Perks. Climate Perks allows employers to give employees paid “journey days” which they can use to subsidise their annual leave to take low-carbon transport modes to their holiday destinations. Just 15% of people take 70% of all …
October half-term at the Brunel Museum
October half-term at the Brunel Museum Brunel Museum hosts a storytelling session Southwark’s smallest inhabitants,, created by the UK’s most entertaining engineers Families can follow their nose to the Museum to sniff out the Thames Tunnel story in the Smelly Trail Bedtime Stories for Very Young Engineers Friday 28 October | 10am …
Brunel Museum awarded £62,046 for Sophia’s Story programme to support young women in engineering
The project, ‘Sophia’s story’ takes its inspiration from Sophia Brunel Marc’s daughter and sister to Isambard, walking in her father’s tunnel. This is the only representation of Sophia in the Museum in its current form. Yet, she was a promising engineer in her own right, once described as “Brunel in petticoats”, had she not been …
Brunel Museum to receive £62,046 for Sophia’s Story programme to support young women in engineering
Brunel Museum among 8 recipients of the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, The project will help to develop engagement with young women and girls both within and outside of school settings using a collection of engineering drawings. The project, ‘Sophia’s story’ takes its inspiration from Sophia Brunel Marc’s daughter and sister to Isambard, walking in …
Dig deeper this Autumn at the Brunel Museum
From September 2022, there’s plenty of activity at the Brunel Museum to help you dig a little deeper into the story of the Thames Tunnel – from guided tours, to book talks to classical concerts – there’s something for everyone. Guided Tour Weekends at the Brunel Museum The story of the father and son team, …
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 …
Brunel Museum receives £1.85million Heritage Fund grant ahead of 200-year celebrations
We’re thrilled to let you know that we’ve been awarded a grant of £1.85million from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. This means that we can start work on our Brunel Museum Reinvented project, and we can’t wait! The three-year project aims to be completed by 2025 to coincide with our of 200-year anniversary since …
Summer at the Brunel Museum
Summer at the Brunel Museum In November 1827, after a number of flooding events had left the Thames Tunnel company directors feeling understandably nervous, engineer and PR wizard Isambard Kingdom Brunel decided to host a banquet in the tunnel. The drink flowed and there was music courtesy of the Coldstream Guards – and there will …
Brunel Museum awarded Places of Science grant by Royal Society
Brunel Museum awarded Places of Science grant by Royal Society Today, the Brunel Museum has become one of 26 small museums to be awarded funding of £3, 500 by the Royal Society in its Places of science scheme to engage communities with their local science stories. Uniting art and science at Brunel’s Engine House The Brunel …