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Only one week to go until our book talk from Tim Bryan Brunel's SS Great Britain launches his brand new book Iron, Stone & Steam at the Brunel Museum. Get your tickets today!
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We're chuffed to bits Art UK have included our Cross-section of the Thames Tunnel framed print in their best gifts for Christmas 🥰😍
Gift the engineering buff in your life this print!
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🎄✨ Santa's Mailbox at the Brunel Museum
Join us for a festive twist at the Brunel Museum during "Museum Shop Sunday"! Kids can jot down their wish lists to Santa at our letter-writing station. Our friendly team will take care of delivering these special messages straight to the North Pole.
📝 Letter Writing Station: Discover a special corner where kids can pen their letters to Santa, using festive stationery and colours.
💌 Handled with Care: Our staff will collect the letters and ensure Santa gets every heartfelt message.
Bring a bit of holiday cheer to Museum Shop Sunday at the Brunel Museum.
Link: https://thebrunelmuseum.com/events/event/santas-mailbox-at-the-brunel-museum/
This meet author in a short talk where she shares her experience looking for the secret fossils of
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This meet Robert Guidi author of the Robert Guidi series at the Museum in the atmospheric Tunnel Shaft
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Chris produces beautiful products based on the iconic London Brick shape. Staying true to its familiar ‘frogged’ form while re-imagining its function, we have designed a sleek ceramic vase, multipurpose in use and a striking feature to add to any interior space.
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Join us for our Winter Warmer weekend on Sat 25 & Sun 26 Nov
We’re opening the Museum later than usual so you’ve got even more time to visit the Tunnel Shaft and explore the Engine House!
Grab a glass of fizz and a mince pie from 4pm each day to get in the festive spirit
We love working with brilliant authors like . She's written two books: 'Built' for adults and 'How was that Built?' for children
Check out her books in our online shop this
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Join us at the London Metropolitan Archives on December 8th to explore the Brunel Museum's beautiful collection of Thames Tunnel watercolours, prints and early sketches. Hear all about their unique history and how the Thames Tunnel itself came to be known as the ‘eighth wonder of the world’.
Book your tickets for the next viewing via our website:
Archive Talks at the LMA – Thames Tunnel Watercolours (£15 per person / 90 minutes approx. / London Metropolitan Archives, Huntley Room) Our next talk and viewing is on: Friday 8th December, 10:30am Book now In 2017, the Brunel Museum acquired a beautiful collection of designs and watercolours of...
Five products to buy for the London lover in your life
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From a medieval manor house to the tomb of a Polynesian prince, step back in time through the hidden history of Rotherhithe Village on one of the Brunel Museum's new walking tours.
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Our iconic pink IKB socks are made by
Designed in London and then knitted with 200 needles and finished by hand in Turkey.
Your wardrobe is missing a pair of these lovely Isambard Kingdom Brunel socks - we can help you rectify that! Socks are 80% Combed Cotton, 18% Nylon and 2% Elastane for that perfect fit. Now available in two sizes - see dropdown. UK 7-12 (EU 41-47) UK 3-6 (EU 36-40)
10 November 1827 Isambard Kingdom Brunel held the world's first underwater banquet in the Thames Tunnel.
Discover why in a visit today!
10 November 2022 marks 195 years since the Thames Tunnel hosted world’s first underwater banquet, depicted by George Jones in his painting currently on displ...
Help us plan for 2024!
Pop the kettle on and spend 10 minutes answering a few questions about what you want to see us focus on for next year! https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VK3S2QK
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GENERAL ADMISSION Adult: £8 Concession: £5 Family Ticket: £13 Art Pass: free entry GUIDED TOUR WEEKENDS Adult: £9 Concession: £6 Family Ticket: £15 Art Pass: free entry *Concessions are available for children, students and over 65s *Family ticket admits up to 2 adults and 4 children
It's Living Wage week! We're proud to be a employer - Here's our Director explains why we're proud to be a employer
“If we’re worrying about the cost-of-living-crisis, we know our staff are as well”.Katherine McAlpine, Director of the Brunel Museum talks about why they’re ...
Don't forget! Every purchase from our online shop helps support the Museums activities in Rotherhithe and beyond. Whether it's a present for someone else or a treat for yourself, check out our online shop!
Want to make your Christmas shopping make a difference? Every purchase in our shop means we can do more to share widely the story of the Thames Tunnel
All products are traditionally woven in the British Isles from the finest fabrics - then hand finished.
Our exclusive design is inspired by the watercolour in our collection.
Inspired by the Thames Tunnel Watercolour, hand drawn by Marc Brunel himself, this cotton blanket is 100%recyled and 100% soft. Use it as a cushiony, protective layer as you pour through the pages of a book or sketch your next invention. Exclusive to the Brunel Museum. 75% recycled cotton, 25% other...
This watercolour by Marc Brunel makes our volunteer Mike smile. The image show soldier holding out his cap to the wealthy man on the other side of the road 'adding a bit of fun to a technical drawing'
Today's is 'Art to make you smile' so we asked our team what artwork makes them smile.
Our Ops Coordinator Robert's 'Art to make you smile' is Marc Brunel's watercolour because of the hidden drawing on the back - showing the tunnel is as wide as the House of Commons!
Today's is 'Art to make you smile' so we asked our team what artwork makes them smile.
Finance Manager Sarah selected this painting of IKB in front of Box Tunnel "because someone wanted a fantasy and made it happen with an an excellent artist"
Did you visit our Tunnelling Today exhibition? We'd love to know what you thought - can you spare 3 minutes to complete our short survey?
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Introducing Tim Bryan, author of Iron, Stone and Steam: Brunel's Railway Empire
Tim Bryan has worked in transport and industrial museums for much of his career.
Join Tim 7 Dec for a journey through Brunel's railway Empire https://thebrunelmuseum.com/events/event/book-talk-iron-stone-and-steam/
Every purchase from our shop (online or in the Museum) helps support the Museum to deliver programmes for young people on engineering.
If you're ever caught short while visiting with children, don't worry!
Don't worry - we’ve got baby changing facilities in our accessible toilet on the ground floor of the Engine House.
We also have a caught short box in case there’s anything you need.
Calling all art teachers!
We're creating a brand new art programme for schools but we need your help! Please take 5 minutes to complete our short survey to help shape that programme:
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Explore our artefacts in the Engine House this -Term
Get up close and discover just how they dug the world’s first underwater tunnel with our giant Thames Tunnel model.
Take a peep at our Victorian peep shows – sold to raise money to build the tunnel.
Watch our subtitled videos of the Thames Tunnel archive. Not enough time to watch them all? Don’t worry, you can watch them at leisure on our YouTube channel.
Visit the Tunnel Shaft this -Term aka the giant cookie cutter.*
Before building the tunnel, Marc Brunel built this huge 50ft structure and then let it sink into the soft earth to get underneath the river.
Stay long enough and you might even feel the rumble of a tube train under your feet!
Buggy bound? No problem. You can view the whole thing from our Royal Viewing Box at the top – or just get your grown up to carry you down.
*Cookies not included!
to our Wapping to Windrush event back in August.
Visitors met Sydney Charles Lewis, a tube guard on the Eats London Line during the 1970s, travelling through the Thames Tunnel every day!
In almost thirty tumultuous years, Brunel created a rail network covering much of the South and West of England, the Midlands and Wales
Book now for an evening with Tim Bryan, author of Iron, Stone and Steam: Brunel’s Railway Empire.
Join us for an evening with Tim Bryan, author of Iron, Stone and Steam: Brunel’s Railway Empire. Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Victorian icon, engineer, artist, architect, designer and visionary, entrepreneur and celebrity. Tim Bryan’s new book tells the story of Brunel’s awe-inspiring achievements...
Ever wondered how our porcelain magnets are made?
The porcelain clay is first rolled using wooden guides for the correct thickness. Then a circular cutter is used for the shape.
The soft clay is dried flat under boards for a week or two. After this, the circles are tidied with a damp sponge and let to fully dry.
They undergo the first bisque firing. Following this a glaze firing, by which time the clay has shrunk about 20 percent. Finally, the transfers are applied and a third lower temperature firing takes place.
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to our first Mysterious History of Rotherhithe walking tour!
Discover the rich history of Rotherhithe by booking onto our next one!
🔗 https://thebrunelmuseum.com/learning/talks-and-tours/walking-tours/
Did you visit our Tunnelling Today exhibition recently? We want to know what you thought - Take our short survey today! https://vist.ly/cga9
Discover how people have African origin have shaped London and Britain for centuries in our collection
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7 October 1903 Henry Marc Brunel, son of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and grandson of Marc Brunel, dies. He followed their footsteps into engineering and played a key role in the construction of Tower Bridge. Discover how his ancestors changed the shape of the Thames in a visit to the Brunel Museum.
Second son of the great civil engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and grandson of the great mechanical engineer, Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, it would have been surprising if Henry Marc had not become an engineer. Henry Marc evaded the name ‘Isambard’, unusual in England; the name going to his older...
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Join one of the Brunel Museum school tours, suitable for #pupils in Key Stages 1 to 3. Learn about the lives of the characters that helped building the tunnel and how that was constructed. More info on: www.thebrunelmuseum.com
#OTDH 3 June 1825 With only a few feet left to go, the almost 1000-ton Tunnel Shaft built to access underneath the river, will sink no further! Marc Brunel orders a further 8, 000 bricks to add to the weight-to no effect! Another 50, 000 bricks are added to no avail!
It’s #VolunteersWeek and it’s time for us to say ‘thank you’ to our incredible team of volunteers. We’re so lucky and grateful for your support and without you the Brunel Museum would not be the same. Thank you Caitlin, Cristian, Elzabieta, Ellie, Gill, Jean, Keith, Kal, Mike, Mine, Paul, Peter, Ruby, Sav, Scott.
It's #WatercolourWednesday! Check out the latest video filmed @ldnmetarchives looking at the #ThamesTunnel watercolours with our Director @museumgirlldn #rotherhithe #arthappens #london #crowdfunding #thamestunnel #thamesriver
The River Thames. It's a nice place to have a walk around. From the docks, to wharves, housing estates and back street boozers - steeped in heritage: but did you know of the queer history woven into the history of this stretch of the waterway? Rotherhithe and Wapping has remarkable queer history and Sacha and Sheldon, two tour guides and LGBTQ+ historians, have researched a tour that is just as good as time travel. Travel back to 1780 for a glass of Mother's Ruin at the The Widow In Masquerade. If you're lucky you might meet the infamous Female Soldier and hear their tales of genderbending infamy! Or how about the creative hub that Derek Jarman had in his studios in the shadow of Tower Bridge in the 1970s? Perhaps a stroll to The Prospect Of Whitby in the 1800's where flamboyant local queens and slumming gentlemen might join you for a Hot Toddy? Queer history galore all within easy reach from the Brunel Museum. The meeting point will be the forecourt of the Brunel Museum at 12pm. The nearest transport link is Rotherhithe station on the London Overground. Get your tickets here: https://the-brunel-museum.arttickets.org.uk/the-brunel-museum-sandbox/2021-09-10-walking-tour-rainbow-river
