What's on
Discover the fascinating work of trailblazing women scientists past and present in this tour run by the Natural History Museum's enthusiastic Learning Volunteers.
Programme robots with a community organisation helping young Londoners access, learn and create with these technologies.
Take a seat for family story time sessions with books celebrating art, nature and being different, read by highly acclaimed drag artist Aida H Dee The Storytime Drag Queen.
Join us throughout the day with performances from Royal College of Music students, London-based performers and speakers from Imperial College London.
Are we living in a healthcare revolution? Come and celebrate 25 years of the School of Medicine with a jam-packed zone of activities to find out!
Queen’s Gate GCSE Art students work to create sculptural heads in a collaboration with the Royal Society of Sculptors..
Hear an eclectic range of performances from the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music and many more!
The future of our planet is at risk, but what does the next generation have to say on the topic? We ask our young panelists for their views on the climate crisis.
A celebration of the neurodiverse community’s contribution to science and arts by local artist Azarra Amoy.
Be a part of Synch.Live, a joyful, participatory community art experience and cutting edge brain science experiment.
Meet scientists making amazing discoveries about insects, and meet their friendly bumblebees. Make seedballs to grow bee food, and play games to find out how bees help get food on our plates.
A motivational VR workshop in which young people get a first taste of the German language and STEM/vocational training through VR technology.
How can we eat better for the planet? Try delicious and sustainable food samples, collect green recipe cards or take the climate friendly food find challenge!
Join the microbe community! Find out what makes a microbe and make your own with pompoms. Discover how helpful microbes can tackle plastic pollution, what happens when unhelpful microbes evolve and what this means for humans.
Join us for a short tour and discover the hidden stories of people and research behind the brilliant facades of Exhibition Road!
The zone is packed with games, stories, crafts, quizzes, demos and experiments. Alongside scientists, artists and engineers, you can build rockets, extract DNA, transform transport, investigate animals and make masterpieces.
Get hands on with a world we cannot see! Experience the wonder of small but mighty molecules and leave the zone with a brand new perspective.
Work alongside Imperial College London researchers to extract a strawberry's DNA, and take it home as a souvenir.
Step into a perception-altering, nostalgia-inducing urban experience right in the heart of the Great Exhibition Road Festival.
Explore the road to becoming a trailblazing innovator in the 21st Century inside the Dyson School of Design Engineering.
Dive into the kids-free festival zone: sharpen your fashion upcycling skills, spark your curiosity with cloud demos or grab a drink and relax in the garden.
Brains, planes and autonomous vehicles. Come and see some amazing advances in Artificial Intelligence and the digital realm!
Try your hand at the world's first techno sport, an augmented reality game blending physical and virtual experiences.
What will our world look like in 2050? Join us to become a Future Explorer and investigate.
A scientific selection box of topics and activities for all ages. Get involved in games, experiments, conversations and arts and craft activities from across the Imperial College London research spectrum.
Create your own mini earthquake, build your own earthquake-resistant structure, and take part in the earthquake shaking challenge!
What will the plants and animals of the future look like as they adapt to climate change? Get creative and share your ideas with artists and scientists exploring biodiversity.
Come along and try out our Roving on Mars Game! Navigate a map of Mars with your very own rover, avoid the hazards and look for signs of life. Find out how NHM Scientists are helping to search for life on Mars.
A motivational singing workshop giving young people a first taste of the German language through music.
Make your own mind-bending illusions with Imperial neuroscientists, and learn what these optical and auditory tricks tell us about how our brain works.
Make your own molecular necklace inspired by futuristic materials that could improve solar cells, batteries, and the wearable devices of tomorrow.
Pick up a paper activity or trail and get exploring with the whole family!
Come and see a stunning selection of the shortlisted images from this year's Earth Photo competition.
Join us for an onsite or virtual taster lesson to experience a German lesson at the Goethe-Institut. Get a glimpse of what a lesson feels like and learn your first German phrases.
Try out our inflatable bungee run and explore how the length of your gut changes throughout your life and how this affects what you eat!
A café with a twist. Join Imperial College researchers at the coffee table as they get your thoughts on how to improve their research over an informal cuppa.
Build your own cutting-edge satellites or instruments and explore the seemingly empty space throughout the solar system that affects our everyday lives.
Wondering what you can do about your carbon footprint? Visit the Carbon Deli for all your carbon cuts and offsetting needs!
Discover the incredible nature and heritage of the Royal Parks, and follow in the footsteps of the trailblazers who have enhanced and protected these parks for people and wildlife.
Visit the 1851-der tent and explore trailblazing transport from the original Great Exhibition of 1851. Learn about transportation innovation today from our 1851-der experts. Experiment with electric cars and levitating trains.
Unleash your artistic skills to create your own colourful metal keychain in this workshop exploring corrosion.
Drop in for a story, some music, a quiz or an interactive demo.
Take part in a creative workshop creating mesmerising paper marbling, while learning about the intriguing world of fluid dynamics.
What are molecules? Where are they, what can they do for us, and how do we even know what they look like? Join us as we explore the incredible world of molecules in this live interactive family show.!
A motivational game workshop in which young people get a first taste of the German language through a point-and-click adventure game set in Europe in medieval times.
Come and create some molecular crafts with the Roessler group. Learn the vital role iron-sulphur clusters play in respiration and photosynthesis and make your own colourful version to take home!
Design DNA nanostars, nanofrogs and build bracelets and keyrings with complementary sequence to your friends' and family's.
Are you interested in new technologies and how they can help our world? Explore how we can reduce carbon dioxide in our air in an interactive demo.
The Science Museum Group’s collections are a rich source of material for uncovering hidden queer histories. Discover how Science Museum curators are unpicking these stories to share with visitors.
From Hopkins' endoscope and keyhole surgery to surgical robots and augmented reality, we will explore how innovation has impacted the operating theatre, and what the future holds.
Design and monoprint a slogan poster to give future generations a snapshot of what’s most important to you today.
Join the curator of the V&A’s Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature exhibition to explore the life and legacy of Potter as an artist and natural scientist.
Explore the new medicines, new mindsets and new technologies that could revolutionise how we support health and wellbeing in later life.
Join us for a creative workshop where you will make a piece of art collaboratively, whilst learning about sickle cell disease and invisible disabilities.
Meet our current artist and designer in residence in their studios on site at South Kensington and learn about how their research in the V&A’s collection is inspiring their practice.
Ever wondered what a job in science, tech or engineering is really like ? Come and meet a range of STEM professionals for all the honest details.
Discover how to make cheese from scratch and create your own tasty cheesecake in a chemistry inspired cook-along workshop with the Chemical Kitchen team at Imperial College London.
Experience this unique blend of music, performance and science while discovering the vital role of our neurons play.
Come and have a bubble with the Roessler group in this bubble making workshop. Discover how the Roessler group create artificial environments in order to the study the parts of our body that are too small to see with just our eyes.
This roar-some show puts scientific skills at the heart of an exciting adventure back in time to learn about dinosaurs.
Discover the world of Liquid Stone by casting your own 'moss ball'. Take part in a participatory experiment about antique construction recipes and cutting edge science on bio receptive concrete.
Join V&A Curator Zorian Clayton as he shares trailblazing posters from the V&A's collections.
Sharing of poems by young men developed over four months, with award winning spoken word artist Yomi Sode, in response to the V&A exhibition Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear
Hear from Josh Davis, Dan Vo, Laura Bullesbach and Rebecca Mellor as they discuss finding the queer stories hidden among the collections of Exhibition Road’s museums.
Join gaming and AR experts discussing technology's potential to bring gaming experience to new sectors like sport, exercise or the experience economy.
What does computer generated art tell us about human creativity? Join our panel to discuss the overlap between artificial intelligence and art.
Diverse voices, from public health academics to high school students, share their fears and hopes for cleaning up the air we breathe.
Hear from Juliet Jacques, a Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, as well as a filmmaker, and author of Trans: A memoir, an account of transition and transgender politics and culture.
Join the founder and artists of InHouse Records, the UK’s first record label to be launched in prison, to hear about breaking the reoffending cycle through music
Celebrate the UN International Year of Glass with experts from across Exhibition Road.
Against the challenges of recent years, join scientist and author John Tregoning for a more hopeful story of fascinating successes in our age-old battle with infectious disease.
Families who need a quieter, calmer environment can book in to explore the Hands-On Family Zone with fewer crowds. Try out some experiments, play, make, meet scientists and enjoy a story.
Come together to share stories and notions of migration as we collectively create a hand-embroidered tablecloth. Bring along trinkets, swatches or buttons to add to our collaborative creation!
Discover how art, science and neurodiversity collide to inspirational effect in this selection of talks and workshops
Explore the world of instrument building, acoustic hacking and sound art in this exhibition at the Royal College of Music.
Make some noise and get hands on in this creative opportunity to build your own musical instruments!
Enjoy eye-catching dance performances inspired by the exciting and ground-breaking research into neuroscience taking place at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and Imperial College.
Join the recording of a podcast started by two Imperial PhD students that highlights the achievements of women
Hear from three Imperial PhD students as they discuss their LGBTQ+ identities, queer joy, and finding role models in science.
Britain’s first astronaut Helen Sharman hosts polar experts and security specialists to discuss how a whole-planet perspective is needed to preserve the landmark Antarctic Treaty.
From its antique origins to its sustainable future, architects and scientists discuss the most ubiquitous of architectural materials: concrete.
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from Imperial infected 36 healthy people with COVID-19. Find out why, how they made it safe, and what they learnt .
Male, female; art, science. The world is full of binaries that we as humans have created, and that Nemo Martin finds fascinating to break.
From tackling societal injustice to ad(dressing) the climate crisis, upcoming designers and fashion experts from the Royal College of Art and the V&A discuss the future of the industry and the trailblazers who will steer it.
Hear from Florence Okoye as she discusses her work investigating how queer and anti-colonial methods can increase access to collections.
Join GP Azeem Majeed and medical student Yasmin Baker to explore the COVID health inequalities that can help us understand and address issues around distrust of doctors and vaccine hesitancy.
Arber Gashi, Sarah-Kristine Obina and Warren Reilly in conversation with Dan Vo, exploring what it means to be queer as well as people of colour.
Red planet scientists report on the latest findings from NASA’s Perseverance Rover and its ground-breaking search for evidence for possible Martian life.
Hear the stories of patients and staff at a London hospital, told through the poems of Di Sherlock.
Nature is vital to our existence. It provides the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat as well as other essential resources we need to survive. Nature protects us. But what can be done to protect nature?
Scientists at the Grantham Institute reveal some of the most achievable ways you personally can make a difference to climate change.
