Happy Valentines Day from the Brunel Museum
The story of the Thames Tunnel is one of perseverance against terrible odds: floods, financial troubles, ill health and death. But at its heart is another story of perseverance, of love triumphing against revolution, imprisonment and ill health. That’s why this Valentine’s Day, we’re sharing the story of Sophia and Marc Brunel. The starcrossed lovers …
Tunnelling through Time shortlisted for Cultural Enterprise Award!
We’re delighted to share that Tunnelling through Time, our online escape room adventure, has been shortlisted for a Cultural Enterprise Award, organisation by the Association of Cultural Enterprises The game has been designed and built by Deadlocked Escape Rooms, boutique live Escape Room company and one of the pioneers of virtual escape rooms. Inspiration from …
Rainbow River
Ahead of our Rainbow River Virtual Pub Crawl, LGBTQ+ historian and tour guide Sacha Coward gives us a sneak peak of some of the bars and boozers on our time-travelling bar crawl. The gay bar has been a staple for a lot of LGBTQ+ lives for a long time. Whilst the connection between being queer …
Happy Chinese New Year from the Brunel Museum
To mark Chinese New Year our volunteer Keith Turpin reflects on the connections to China around the Brunel Museum: Local landmarks There are lots of clues to Southwark’s Chinese connections. Near the museum you will find Cathay (an archaic term for China) Street. The China Hall on Lower Road, another local Rotherhithe landmark, was a …
February 2022 at the Brunel Museum
February at the Brunel Museum Love is in the air this February at the Brunel Museum! From falling in love with London again in Picture the City, learn about those whose love has been marginalized by society in our Rainbow River pub crawl, we’ve got plenty to keep your and your loved ones busy …
Picture the City – Bank of England Museum painting comes to Rotherhithe
PICTURE THE CITY: Exhibition encourages Londoners to reflect on the changing face of the docks From 12 January, visitors to the Brunel Museum can get a different perspective on the docks as they play host to the Bank of England Museum’s Picture the City exhibition. The Museum, which sits on the site of the Thames Tunnel, has …
The Thames Tunnel Diving Bell
In David Copperfield (1849-50), Charles Dickins wrote about a speculator’s scrap yard in a rundown area of London now known as Pimlico. Sited on marshy ground alongside Millbank Prison on the bank of the river Thames, half buried in the mud were “rusty iron monsters of steam-boilers … anchors … diving-bells … and I know …
Invitation to Pitch – Creative Practitioner
Creative Practitioner Brief – Self Guided Family Resources An exciting opportunity has arisen to develop a new suite of self-guided family learning resources for the Brunel Museum. These engaging and innovative resources will represent a step-change in how the Museum engages with their family visitors and drives visits to the Museum. The Brief We are …
Tunnelling through Time – Online Escape Room
“A digital escape like no other” – Review The Room “Another beautiful production” – Escape The Roomers “Mesmerising cinematic experience” – Escape Mattster The Thames Tunnel at The Brunel Museum in London was the world’s first underwater tunnel, and Deadlocked Escape Rooms have collaborated with The Brunel Museum to create our most cinematic adventure …
Marc Brunel and the epidemic of 1793
As we come to the end of a second year of a global pandemic, it is interesting to look back at older epidemics and pandemics to see what elements of culture have been shaped by the effects of ravaging diseases. Sometimes the effects are direct and easily identifiable, such as the ending of serfdom in …