What's on

Help us build a giant HE-ARTwork that will form the beating heart of the Great Exhibition Road Festival!

Witness the live creation of ten large-scale murals on Exhibition Road, which are inspired by Imperial's scientific research, and meet the artists as they work!

Join us for an array of incredible performances from the Royal Albert Hall, Royal College of Music, youth groups and local community acts.

Make and decorate your own wind capturing, spinning wooden turbines with experts from Imperial College London's Energy Futures Lab.

Join us for an exciting journey into the world of biological wonders! Play the TinyHeroes card game or stop by for a DNA extraction demo.

Join local librarians in our fun-packed, story-filled tent for sing-alongs, ryhme and move sessions or some chilled-out time with a book, for children aged 0-5 and their families.

Fuelled by creativity, young children craft solutions inspired by 1851's exhibition, guided by Imperial College London researchers. Witness future science and design firsthand.

Decorate your own icy balls of celestial shrapnel and watch their tails stretch out behind them as they face the solar wind.

Drip colourful paints and create a beautiful artwork based on brain synapse scans as you uncover how our brain cells communicate with one another.

Play a range of fun games and activities and learn all about the environmental impacts of plastic pollution.

Join us to build Happy City and explore how we can create content communities. Explore technology that could shape cities of the future and add to our growing model town

Play the game to see if you can spot ultra-processed food or get creative and draw your favourite homecooked meal to add to our growing collection.

Express yourself with a flourish! Make artwork and share your ideas alongside artists, scientitsts and engineers.

Make your very own coral inspired hat, and find out how NHM scientists are helping marine wildlife flourish.

Enjoy sustainable food samples, recipe cards and an interactive quiz on climate-friendly grocery shopping - with prizes!

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.

Get crafty at this bug making workshop, exploring the versatility of paper and its applications in science, engineering, design and art.

Create your own BodyBot buddy as you explore the flexible, stringy and squishy world of mini robots that travel inside our bodies.

Discover innovations addressing the challenges faced by our planet through interactive activities and thought-provoking exhibits.

Contribute your own self-portrait to a giant, shared hanging mobile as we celebrate diversity and the unique elements that make each of us who we are.

Try out awesome activities, games and experiments created specially for families with children under 12, alongside family-friendly shows and pop-up movement sessions.

Try out awesome activities, games and experiments created specially for families with children under 12, alongside family-friendly shows and pop-up movement sessions.

Get something off your chest and add your voice to a sprawling patchwork quilt of individual truths, protest slogans and personal confessions.

Come and meet Robochef! Find out how artificial intelligence and innovative technologies can help us all to live healthier lives.

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.

Meet scientists and engineers who are inventing ways to remove harmful gasses from the air. Play games with them and share your ideas about how we can look after the planet.

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.

Create an eco-friendly plant pot to plant your next green goal. Nurture and grow your plant as your new sustainable habit grows along with it.

Join Imperial scientists who are investigating the air we breathe, inside and outside our homes! Come and make a giant artwork with them as you share your ideas about air pollution.

Make your own super energy-efficient car, test its aerodynamics, and earn a place on our marvellous motors leaderboard!

How can we help our planet to flourish? Investigate air pollution, discover the urban wildlife around us, and find out about the future of animals around the world.

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

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

Get to know the story of little alien Wuschel, their exciting journey to Germany (illustrated by Axel Scheffler) and create your own Wuschel out of paper!

Discover how Imperial College London surgeons, physiotherapists and scientists are using technology in the musculoskeletal lab - take part in research about skeletons and try on a Virtual Reality headset used to train surgeons.

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.

If you like building things you'll love finding out all about atoms and molecules with chemical engineers from Imperial College London.

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.

From clean powered cities to greener electronics, get charged up as we explore the latest sustainable solutions.

Explore how people, plants and animals flourish in the Royal Parks.

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!

Don't miss the 1851der Tent's world of wonder. Experience living-material ropes and delve into your nervous system. Discover dark matter, Antarctica life, and be a penguin for a day!

Discover some of the secrets behind the brilliant facades of Exhibition Road in London’s arts and science district!

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.

Grab a pair of headphones and learn how AI behaviour can come from simple dance instructions.

Join us as we journey to the stars! Help presenter Scott as we explore the amazing world of space in this live interactive science show.

Join our energetic singalong workshop, get to know Felix & Franzi, and learn some fun songs and animals in German!

This bookable relaxed session is for families with members who are neurodiverse and need a quieter, calmer environment can book in to explore the Family Fun Zone with fewer crowds. Try out some experiments, play, make, meet scientists and engineers and enjoy a story.

This bookable relaxed session is for families with members who are neurodiverse and need a quieter, calmer environment can book in to explore the Family Fun Zone with fewer crowds. Try out some experiments, play, make, meet scientists and engineers and enjoy a story.

Join us for yoga and learn some German! In this yoga and games session, you and your children will learn some basic German vocabulary whilst stretching with some Asana yoga.