What's on

Explore the extraordinary at the Great Exhibition Road Festival. Discover a selection of Festival events below and join us in South Kensington this June for a weekend of free events for all ages. Click on the hearts to create your own list of favourites, or you can download a copy of the timed events schedule and map (pdf) or see the printed programme (pdf)

Young people
11-25

Design a Climate Action Mural

All Ages

Lighting the Way

13-24

Fighting Bac

Ages 5+

Bungee Gut Run

All Ages

Climate Friendly Pop-up Kitchen

Adults only

Hope? And How to Grieve for the Planet

Young people

Who Ordered Pizza with Extra Dopamine?

Young people

Challenging Pseudoscience: Spotting bad information online

13-24

Chill Out Area

All Ages

AlgeBAR

Earth Photo 2023

13-24

NextGen Zone

Family

Marvellous Materials

All Ages

Dangoor Plaza Bandstand

Adults only

Creative Science zone

Family

Extract DNA from a strawberry!

All Ages

Medical Marvels zone

All Ages

Smart Machines zone

Family

Family Fun zone

Family

Family Stage

All Ages

Create-a-crown

Family

Build a Robot Workshop

Family event

Paper Brain Hat Workshop

All Ages

Brilliant Bodies zone

All Ages

Building the Future zone

All Ages

Design Innovation zone

Family event

Wriggling Worms and Tiger Toilets

Family event

The Earthquake Space

Family

Underground Overground

Family event

Wundertüten

All Ages

Watery Wonders (British Geological Survey)

Family event

Wiggel! Flexible Imagination

Family

Urban Wildlife Project

Family activity

Wonderful Worms

All Ages

Future Food zone

Family

Japan National Costumes Inspired by Nature

All Ages

Main stage

All Ages

Quantum in Pictures

All Ages

Great Exhibition²

All Ages

Paint Lab

All Ages

Parasites

All Ages

The Darwin Tree of Life Project

All Ages

Healthy Heroes

Ages 7+

Immunity Investigators

Adults

Penny For Them

Adults

Hangover-free Cocktails

Adults

Love Our Leaves: Make a Summer Garland

Family

Nuclear Energy Futures Fair

All Ages

1851der Tent

All Ages

DNA Arts Space

Ages 12+

Click Chemistry Key Chains

Family event

Amazing Artificial Cell Factory

Family

Discover the Royal Parks

All Ages

Cloud Station

Family

Build A New World

All Ages

A Digital Museum

All Ages

Future Food Live

Adults

Women In Science: Palaeontology Tour

All Ages

Uni-verses: Write your own space poetry

Family event

The PhilosoCats

Adults

Photographing the Invisible

All Ages

Discover South Kensington Tours

Ages 12+

Climate Protest Artshop

Ages 12+

Lost Art of Lace Making

Adults only

Art of Corrosion

Adults
Ages 14+

Escape the Clinic! A Drug Trial Escape Room

Ages 12+
Young people

Test a Career

All Ages

Wunderbar German

Ages 12+

Printing Electronics

14+

Not Just a Story: Aliens, Avalanches and ATP

Under 5s

Bedtime Stories for Very Young Engineers

All Ages

Smart cells - Awe and Wonder

Adults

Spirit Collection Tour

Young people

Nexus Film Screening

Adults

Rediscovering Black Portraiture

Family event
Young people

Design for Sickle Cell

All Ages

V&A Residencies Open Studios

Adults

Moon Symphony: A musical journey through our solar system

Adults

Our Universe and the Force Within

All Ages

Atom>Light>Dance: An atomic silent disco

Family event

Caribbean Tales: V&A Family Storytelling

Family event

Amazing Molecular Science Show

Adults

The Real Loch Ness Monster

All Ages

Down to Earth

Adults

The Korean Wave: The technology that propelled a global cultural phenomenon

Adult event

The Great Exhibition

Adults

The Biggest Dinosaurs That Ever Lived

Adults

Redesigning Childbirth

Family event

The Ocean Show

Adults

The Last Butterfly of Summer

Adults

Art Highlights Tour

Adults

The Wonders Inside the Great Exhibition of 1851

Adults

Hidden Worlds: Unearthing the wonder of soil

Adult event
Ages 18+

Creative Science Lates

Family event

Yoga for Children

Adults

German Short Films

Family event

RCM Sparks Family Orchestra

Family event

Family Fun zone: Relaxed session

Ages 12+
Young people

Test a Career Q&A

Adults

Mozzie Music

Adults

Robotics and Science Fiction

Adults

Photographs: From Silver Particles to Snapshots of History

Adults

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

8-12

Am I Made of Stardust?

Adults

Looking Up to Our Favourite Constellations

Adults

The Brain on Drugs

Adults

Seven Material Wonders of the Ancient World

Adults

(Never) Too Old for Science

Adults

Transformation: discovering the strengths of dyslexia

Adults

The Moon and Me with Dr Maggie Aderin Pocock

Adults

Uni-verses: Space Poetry

Family

Awe and Wonder: The RCM Symphony Orchestra