What's on
Explore the extraordinary at the Great Exhibition Road Festival! Discover our 2024 events and keep an eye out in spring 2025 when we'll release our new programme of events for the next Festival weekend on 7-8 June 2025. Enter the times of your visit in the filters below to see what's on then and click on the hearts to create your own list of favourites.
Meet the V&A's current Artists in Residence - Jacqui Ramrayka, Luca Bosani and Rachel Sale - in their studios on site at the V&A South Kensington, and learn more about their practice and process.
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.
The broadcaster and professor of physics discusses the weird and wonderful nature of time.
The architectural revolution in Ghana and India that could inspire how cities adapt across our warming world.
Discover the archaeologically informed creative process of Japanese architect Tane Tsuyoshi, whose thoughts on Japanese design are featured in Japan House London’s exhibition 'Design Discoveries: Towards a DESIGN MUSEUM JAPAN'.
Doodle river-inspired scenes, inspired by our panel discussion about reclaiming our waterways as places for nature and biodiversity, swimming and leisure.
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!
Join Shepherds Bush community member Joanna Oyediran on a walk exploring the history and politics behind the development of this groundbreaking arts and science quarter, told through its extraordinary architecture.
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
Help redesign our capital to be a place where communities flourish, with Dan Phillips from the Royal College of Art. Explore your hopes and fears about the future and possible new technologies.
How robotics will impact disabled people's lives and allow exploration of new environments.
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.
How immersive technologies and simulated realities might improve our wellbeing and mental health in the real world
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.
