What's on

From robotic friends and revolutionary tech to green transport and smarter AI, explore how humans and machines will interface, interact and influence the future.

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.

Express yourself with a flourish! Make artwork and share your ideas alongside artists, scientitsts and engineers.

Try out awesome activities, games and experiments created specially for families with children under 12, alongside family-friendly shows and pop-up movement sessions.

Make and decorate your own wind capturing, spinning wooden turbines with experts from Imperial College London's Energy Futures Lab.

Alongside our amazing zone and stage programmes, the streets will be bursting with more amazing entertainment from start to finish!

Help us build a giant HE-ARTwork that will form the beating heart of the Great Exhibition Road Festival!

Create your own BodyBot buddy as you explore the flexible, stringy and squishy world of mini robots that travel inside our bodies.

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.

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.

Come and meet Robochef! Find out how artificial intelligence and innovative technologies can help us all to live healthier lives.

Drip colourful paints and create a beautiful artwork inspired by fluorescent brain images as you uncover how our brain cells communicate with one another.

Decorate your own icy balls of celestial shrapnel and watch their tails stretch out behind them as they face the solar wind.

Play a range of fun games and activities and learn all about the environmental impacts of plastic pollution.

Join the food waste revolution! Delve into the world of sustainable creativity and create your very own artwork as you explore innovative solutions to food waste.

Discover innovations addressing the challenges faced by our planet through interactive activities and thought-provoking exhibits.

Enjoy sustainable food samples, recipe cards and an interactive quiz on climate-friendly grocery shopping - with prizes!

An ode to a cell! Write your own rhyme, spit out a sonnet or hurl out a haiku as you delve into poetry with a microscopic twist.

Drive around Mars rover style robots programmed by Imperial College London's Women in Computing team, and learn all about the amazing job opportunities for coders.

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.

Discover the future of food, what it means to us and how what we eat may change.

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!

Some of the best up and coming acts from the Royal College of Music, Goethe Institut, Institut Francais and the Royal Albert Hall. Plus, live jazz and soul, world music and more!

Come along to this relaxed space to drop in and enjoy a show. The programme is packed with interactive storytelling sessions, shows, and demonstrations especially for 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.

Explore how people, plants and animals flourish in the Royal Parks.

Join Dr Dimple Devadas and her team of Urban Street Coaches for an action-packed programme to improve health and well-being.

Create an eco-friendly plant pot to plant your next green goal. Nurture and grow your plant as your new sustainable habit grows along with it.

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.

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.

If you like building things you'll love finding out all about atoms and molecules with chemical engineers from Imperial College London.

Explore the history of music through hands-on crafting activities and the inspiring collections of the Royal College of Music Museum.

Design your dream bedroom for a perfect night's sleep with artist Katie Kennedy and Imperial College London sleep researchers investigating the importance of rest.

Hosted by Portobello Radio and featuring world class acts from Royal Albert Hall and Royal College of Music, expect amazing music across the weekend.

Get something off your chest and add your voice to a sprawling patchwork quilt of individual truths, protest slogans and personal confessions.

Get crafty at this bug making workshop, exploring the versatility of paper and its applications in science, engineering, design and art.

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!

Join us to build Happy City and explore how we can create content communities. Explore technology that could shape cities of the future and add to our growing model town

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!

Make your very own coral inspired hat, and find out how NHM scientists are helping marine wildlife flourish.

Contribute your own self-portrait to a giant, shared hanging mobile as we celebrate diversity and the unique elements that make each of us who we are.

Discover how we flourish through the lenses of European filmmakers. From thoughtful documentaries to expressive dance films and heartwarming animated shorts, enjoy a versatile selection from Germany and Europe.

Discover how beautiful 3D models of nature are used by scientists to understand it, and inspire how we protect it

Learn about the cultures of Japan and unleash your creativity with fun activities inspired by Japan House London’s new exhibition 'Design Discoveries: Towards a DESIGN MUSEUM JAPAN'.

Make your own super energy-efficient car, test its aerodynamics, and earn a place on our marvellous motors leaderboard!

From clean powered cities to greener electronics, get charged up as we explore the latest sustainable solutions.

Join Imperial scientists who are investigating the air we breathe, inside and outside our homes! Come and make a giant artwork with them as you share your ideas about air pollution.

What will the plants and animals of the future look like as they adapt to climate change? Get creative and share your ideas with artists and scientists exploring biodiversity.

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.

Grab a pair of headphones and learn how AI behaviour can come from simple dance instructions.

Join us as we journey to the stars! Help presenter Scott as we explore the amazing world of space in this live interactive science show.

Come along to One Click Away! A fun filled dance performance about waste and the environment.

Join our energetic singalong workshop, get to know Felix & Franzi, and learn some fun songs and animals in German!

Get to know the story of little alien Wuschel, their exciting journey to Germany (illustrated by Axel Scheffler) and create your own Wuschel out of paper!

Explore biology through ballet or enjoy the best of Indian classical dance in the beautiful surroundings of the Institut Francais.

This bookable relaxed session is for families with members who are neurodiverse and need a quieter, calmer environment. 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.

Join us for yoga and learn some German! In this yoga and games session, you and your children will learn some basic German vocabulary whilst stretching with some Asana yoga.