Family favourites

Work alongside MRC London Insitute of Medical Sciences and Imperial College London researchers to extract a strawberry's DNA, and take it home as a souvenir.

Through live demos and artistic depictions of future medicines, find out how mathematical models, new tech and public involvement in science is helping fight illness and disease

From robotic friends and revolutionary tech to green transport and smarter AI, explore how humans and machines will interface, interact and influence the future.

Meet scientists, engineers, artists and inventors and try out awesome activities, games, makes and experiments especially created for families with children under 12 in the Family Fun zone.

Come along to this relaxed space to drop in and enjoy a show. The programme is packed with interactive storytelling sessions, shows, and demonstrations especially for families.

Get into the festival spirit and dress to impress with a science-inspired crown making workshop

Design and build your own model mechanoid, recycled robot or cardboard drone that could make the world a better place.

Make paper brain hats to celebrate the wonderous grey matter between our ears with brain scientists and art educator Bethan Durie.

From our powerful brains to the story told by our DNA, take a tour of the wonders inside us all

From green concrete to permeable pavements that soak up excess rain water, make sure to visit our Building the Future zone to learn about new materials and technologies that will build and power our future cities.

Create your own mini earthquake, build your own earthquake-resistant structure, and take part in the earthquake shaking challenge!

From formal uchikake to casual yukata, come and find out about Japanese kimonos. Design your own kimono inspired by nature and try on a summer yukata.

Discover the future of food, what it means to us and how what we eat may change.

Find out about the amazing structures inside our bodies that help us stay healthy, and use them as inspiration for your artwork.

Let your imagination run wild as you create a whole new planet. You’ll meet experts, dream up science fiction stories and craft your very own world.

Enter the factory to discover how Imperial scientists build tiny artificial cells, and make your own giant artificial cell to take home.

Discover the incredible nature and heritage of the Royal Parks, from their smallest invertebrate to their grandest historic landscapes

Design sugar molecules that can deliver drugs round the body.

Join storytelling engineers at our pop-up sessions especially for children aged five and under.

Explore how molecules of different shapes and sizes are all around and even inside of us during this live interactive show for all the family.

Take on the role of scientists and explore the oceans in this adventure into the deep.

Space scientist and BBC broadcaster Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock (MBE) answers all the questions kids have about the universe.