Reimagining travel – again: Interview with Stay Grounded
The Brunels changed the way we travelled forever. Marc Brunel designed the worlds first tunelling shield laying the foundation for future tunnelling projects like HS2, Crossrail and the Channel tunnel. His son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel who learnt his craft on the Thames Tunnel project designed train lines that continue to cross cross the country today, …
Brunel Museum a Living Wage Champion!
The Brunel Museum has been shortlisted for a Living Wage Champion Award in the Industry Trailblazer Category. The Living Wage Champion Awards celebrate individuals and organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to the Living Wage movement. The Brunel Museum has been an accredited Living Wage employer since June 2021. Living Wage Employers commit to …
Helen Czerski on her new book, Blue Machine
Q: Who is Helen Czerski? Tell me a bit about yourself I’m a bit tricky to categorise – I’m a physicist who studies the ocean surface (breaking waves and bubbles), as an Associate Professor at University College London. But I’ve also been a regular science presenter on the BBC and YouTube channels for the past …
Mud, Flood and Fire – Brunel Museum secures funding to develop new schools show
Mud, Flood and Fire: Brunel Museum secures funding to develop new schools show The Brunel Museum has secured a grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry to create a brand new show for schools, called Mud, Flood and Fire. The show will use the experiences of the workers who dug the Thames Tunnel to teach …
“Some pretty thing to carry home as a remembrancer of the Thames Tunnel”
Today marks 180 years since the grand opening of the completed Thames Tunnel on 25th March 1843. As a Victorian tourist attraction it was a huge success, receiving fifty thousand visitors on its opening day. Visitors came from all over the world to marvel at the novelty of walking under a river and it became …
Nominate the Brunel Museum for the Family Friendly Museum Award!
Nominations are now open for the Kids in Museums Family Friendly Museum Award 2023. Each year Kids in Museums puts the power in families’ hands to crown the winner of its annual Family Friendly Museum Award. Now in its eighteenth year, the award recognises museums, galleries and heritage sites that go the extra mile to …
Brunel Museum staff and volunteers recognized in Cultural Enterprises Awards
Brunel Museum staff and volunteers have been recognised in the Association of Cultural Enterprise Awards at a Gala Dinner Awards Ceremony as part of the Association for Cultural Enterprises conference. Event Coordinator Alicja Sobczak has been recognised as a Cultural Enterprises Rising Star Award, and volunteer Gill Howard became the first ever recipient of the …
The Brunel Museum shortlisted at the Museum + Heritage Awards 2023
The Brunel Museum has been shortlisted in the Visitor Welcome category at the Museum + Heritage Awards 2023. The Museums + Heritage Awards celebrate the very best in the world of museums, galleries, and cultural and heritage visitor attractions. The Awards are open to all museums, galleries, archives, and cultural and heritage organisations, both digital …
A Hello from our new Learning Producer
Hello everyone, I’m Tammi and I’m the new learning producer at the museum. I’ve been brought aboard mainly to lead on our Sophia’s Story Programme (which I’ll tell you a bit more about in a second) but also to make sure young people are thought about throughout the museum. I look at interpretation in our …
LGBT+ History Month: The Story of William Burt and John Reagan
Discovering LGBTQ+ History in the archive, although always rewarding, isn’t always pleasant. As the LGBTQ+ community have for centuries been pushed to the margins of history, ignored, belittled – or worse. Until 1967, homosexuality between two men was illegal. This means that often, when we begin doing LGBTQ+ or queer history, the individuals we come …