Women’s History Month: Boring women
Today marks the beginning of #WomensHistoryMonth and we’re sharing the stories of women who made engineering history: from the lesser known Brunel women, trailblazing female engineers from the past or the women making history today with their feats of engineering. Helen Close of the Women’s Engineering Society shares her blog on the female tunnellers who trailblazed …
Guest blog: Picture the Docklands
To mark the final few weeks of Picture The City, Kirsty Parsons, Curator Bank of England Museum, reflects on what makes the Docklands so fascinating. The Docklands is an often overlooked part of London’s history. Today it is the centre of London’s second financial district, with the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf dominating the skyline. Historically …
We’re looking for volunteers to help us out this Easter!
We’re looking for volunteers to help us out with our brand new family activity this Easter, ‘Tunnel Trouble’. Tunnel Trouble is the Brunel Museum’s brand new immersive adventure for Easter holidays 2022 and beyond. Your role will be to support families while they tackle the fiendish puzzles (and maybe give them a clue or two …
Smoke & Steel – the Brunel Museum to feature in brand new engineering series
We’re really excited to share that the Brunel Museum is featured in brand new Engineering series, Smoke & Steel. The series, which premiered last night Monday 14 February, showcases incredible industrial heritage across the world – including Marc and Isambard Brunel’s very own Thames Tunnel. Episode 3 which airs on Monday 28 february, is titled, …
Happy Valentines Day from the Brunel Museum
The story of the Thames Tunnel is one of perseverance against terrible odds: floods, financial troubles, ill health and death. But at its heart is another story of perseverance, of love triumphing against revolution, imprisonment and ill health. That’s why this Valentine’s Day, we’re sharing the story of Sophia and Marc Brunel. The starcrossed lovers …
Tunnelling through Time shortlisted for Cultural Enterprise Award!
We’re delighted to share that Tunnelling through Time, our online escape room adventure, has been shortlisted for a Cultural Enterprise Award, organisation by the Association of Cultural Enterprises The game has been designed and built by Deadlocked Escape Rooms, boutique live Escape Room company and one of the pioneers of virtual escape rooms. Inspiration from …
Rainbow River
Ahead of our Rainbow River Virtual Pub Crawl, LGBTQ+ historian and tour guide Sacha Coward gives us a sneak peak of some of the bars and boozers on our time-travelling bar crawl. The gay bar has been a staple for a lot of LGBTQ+ lives for a long time. Whilst the connection between being queer …
Happy Chinese New Year from the Brunel Museum
To mark Chinese New Year our volunteer Keith Turpin reflects on the connections to China around the Brunel Museum: Local landmarks There are lots of clues to Southwark’s Chinese connections. Near the museum you will find Cathay (an archaic term for China) Street. The China Hall on Lower Road, another local Rotherhithe landmark, was a …
February 2022 at the Brunel Museum
February at the Brunel Museum Love is in the air this February at the Brunel Museum! From falling in love with London again in Picture the City, learn about those whose love has been marginalized by society in our Rainbow River pub crawl, we’ve got plenty to keep your and your loved ones busy …
Picture the City – Bank of England Museum painting comes to Rotherhithe
PICTURE THE CITY: Exhibition encourages Londoners to reflect on the changing face of the docks From 12 January, visitors to the Brunel Museum can get a different perspective on the docks as they play host to the Bank of England Museum’s Picture the City exhibition. The Museum, which sits on the site of the Thames Tunnel, has …