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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.