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.
Express yourself with a flourish! Make artwork and share your ideas alongside artists, scientitsts and engineers.
Get something off your chest and add your voice to a sprawling patchwork quilt of individual truths, protest slogans and personal confessions.
Try out awesome activities, games and experiments created specially for families with children under 12, alongside family-friendly shows and pop-up movement sessions.
Play a range of fun games and activities and learn all about the environmental impacts of plastic pollution.
Come and meet Robochef! Find out how artificial intelligence and innovative technologies can help us all to live healthier lives.
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.
How does it feel to sing or play a game with a stranger? Get involved and find out how a sense of connectedness is shaped by how we communicate with each other.
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.
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.
Create your own BodyBot buddy as you explore the flexible, stringy and squishy world of mini robots that travel inside our bodies.
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.
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.
Make your own super energy-efficient car, test its aerodynamics, and earn a place on our marvellous motors leaderboard!
Join us for an array of incredible performances from the Royal Albert Hall, Royal College of Music, youth groups and local community acts.
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.
Design your own facepaint and see if your face art has what it takes to fool facial recognition technology.
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.
Explore and experience cutting-edge virtual reality innovations to transform mental health and join us on a journey toward a healthier, immersive future.
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.
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 and play against an AI agent trained with reinforcement learning on a classic Atari 2600 game, can you beat its score?
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.
Decorate your own icy balls of celestial shrapnel and watch their tails stretch out behind them as they face the solar wind.
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!
Drip colourful paints and create a beautiful artwork based on brain synapse scans as you uncover how our brain cells communicate with one another.
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.
Help us build a giant HE-ARTwork that will form the beating heart of the Great Exhibition Road Festival!
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 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.
Enjoy sustainable food samples, recipe cards and an interactive quiz on climate-friendly grocery shopping - with prizes!
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!
Explore new flavours and ingredients, as chefs and scientists whip up dishes that you can sample right there and then!
Discover some of the secrets behind the brilliant facades of Exhibition Road in London’s arts and science district!
Solve puzzles, crack codes, and uncover hidden messages as you dive into our escape room based on a real-world drug trial. Can you enrol the patient before the time runs out?
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.
The broadcaster and professor of physics discusses the weird and wonderful nature of time.
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.
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!
Experience a unique performance by Royal College of Music students using newly invented and augmented instruments developed by Imperial College London.
Britain’s first astronaut Dr Helen Sharman hosts a discussion about technologies that could help us flourish beyond our home planet
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.
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.
How robotics will impact disabled people's lives and and allow exploration of new worlds
How immersive technologies and simulated realities might improve our wellbeing and mental health in the real world
From The Terminator and Black Mirror to the robot friends common in Japanese comics, hear how writers and movie makers have influenced our expectations of artificial intelligence.
Journey through 200 years of prehistoric sea monsters, and learn how imaging technology, 3D printing, and robotics are re-imagining these ancient reptiles.
Explore the use of magic mushrooms, LSD and other psychoactive compounds in mental health treatment, creative problem-solving, and personal wellbeing.