What's on
Decorate your own icy balls of celestial shrapnel and watch their tails stretch out behind them as they face the solar wind.
Design your own facepaint and see if your face art has what it takes to fool facial recognition technology.
Join the food waste revolution! Delve into the world of sustainable creativity and create your very own artwork as you explore innovative solutions to food waste.
Join a 'walkshop' around South Kensington to hear how London's plants and animals are being affected by climate change and discuss what we are doing about it.
Drip colourful paints and create a beautiful artwork based on brain synapse scans as you uncover how our brain cells communicate with one another.
An ode to a cell! Write your own rhyme, spit out a sonnet or hurl out a haiku as you delve into poetry with a microscopic twist.
Create your own BodyBot buddy as you explore the flexible, stringy and squishy world of mini robots that travel inside our bodies.
Help us build a giant HE-ARTwork that will form the beating heart of the Great Exhibition Road Festival!
Join us for an array of incredible performances from the Royal Albert Hall, Royal College of Music, youth groups and local community acts.
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.
From robotic friends and revolutionary tech to green transport and smarter AI, explore how humans and machines will interface, interact and influence the future.
From AI-gaming to mosquito tunes, VR for mental health and electric racing, discover the ideas transforming your future in this space tailor-made for and by 13 to 25-year-olds.
Discover the future of food, what it means to us and how what we eat may change.
From mosaic self-portraits to infectious arcade games, science meets art in this 18+ festival zone to create a truly unique and inspiring experience for adults.
From our organs to our limbs, and everything in between, journey through the body to explore all of the marvellous elements, big and small, that make up us!
Journey through 200 years of prehistoric sea monsters, and learn how imaging technology, 3D printing, and robotics are re-imagining these ancient reptiles.
Journey off-planet and explore the solar system, the cosmos and the technology that will help us reach the stars in our out-of-this-world Space Zone.
Make your own super energy-efficient car, test its aerodynamics, and earn a place on our marvellous motors leaderboard!
Discover some of the secrets behind the brilliant facades of Exhibition Road in London’s arts and science district!
Explore new flavours and ingredients, as chefs and scientists whip up dishes that you can sample right there and then!
The broadcaster and professor of physics discusses the weird and wonderful nature of time.
Discover the art of restoring our possessions, why it’s important to resist replacing broken items and how we can all be part of a repairing revolution!
Britain’s first astronaut Dr Helen Sharman hosts a discussion about technologies that could help us flourish beyond our home planet
Explore the use of magic mushrooms, LSD and other psychoactive compounds in mental health treatment, creative problem-solving, and personal wellbeing.