Great Exhibition Road Festival
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Join us on 6-7 June 2026 to enjoy a weekend of free events for all ages celebrating science and the arts!
South Kensington, London
Joined February 2020
As the days get colder and the nights draw in, let us take you back to sunnier days☀️ This beautiful butterfly costume was made as part of a collaboration between Mahogany Carnival Designs and butterfly researcher Mahika K Dixit. Did you make your own wings in their workshop?🦋
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Applications are now OPEN to be one of the next Young Producers! 💸Get paid experience in events production 🖼️Create an installation aimed at 13-25 year-olds 🎪Take part in two major public events: #ImperialLates and #ExRdFest Find out more and apply: https://t.co/h2ql8XQycQ
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Booked your spot at #ImperialLates: Light, Colour, Action yet?🎬 Join our researchers in welcoming the autumn and celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Learn all about how light works, as well as its uses in health research and even in space!🪔 🎫:
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To celebrate our Space gallery now being open at the Science Museum, we’ve delved into our space collection to find extraordinary objects including… an inflatable Beach ball? Our new YouTube video features this seemingly random object found on Stephen Hawking’s desk that can
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If you missed 'Step Inside Quantum' at the 2025 Festival, then it's your lucky week! As part of @L_D_F, this immersive exhibit will be on display all week, with a drop-in drawing workshop this weekend. Don’t let quantum scare you! Step inside! More: https://t.co/WcKvMpzWhd
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Calling South Ken's natural world lovers! This September, hear from world-renowned photographers, explorers, and policy experts at Summit Photo 📸 Taking place at @rgs_ibg, this unique event will explore how photography can address global challenges. https://t.co/UBqe97fhm9
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How can photography drive positive change and address today's global challenges? Find out at our photography and filmmaking event programme in London.
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Our friends @PortobelloRadio are taking the @BBCRadioLondon mic every Tuesday from 7pm throughout August!🎙️ 📻Be sure to tune in tomorrow for the authentic voice of Ladbroke Grove, and read more here:
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Our new free interactive exhibition, Future of Food, is now open! Exploring how food must change in the future to protect our planet and featuring objects ranging from cricket burgers to a bird-flu resistant chicken, be one of the first to experience this family-friendly summer
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Imagine walking into a room where your ears can’t be trusted.. That’s what visitors experienced at SONICOM’s Sound Lab at the Great Exhibition Road Festival in June 🎪 Read more 👉 https://t.co/PDGH7U2OMI
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11 months is a long time to wait for the next #ExRdFest. In the meantime, you can relive one of our fantastic talks: why exactly ARE we building humanoid robots?🤖 👂:
#ICYMI: Last month, I chatted to Ben Russell (@sciencemuseum), Dr. Maryam Banitalebi Dehkordi (@UniofHerts @UHRobotHouse) and Dr. @Petar_Kormushev (@imperialcollege @ImperialDyson) about humanoid robots, live at the @ExRdFestival in London.
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Bec Dennison: Catching the Light Catching the Light asks: what happens when your body stops listening to you? https://t.co/Td2GUrwLBZ
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Dominika Lipniewska: Notice This piece is a meditation on the subtle and the unseen. An invitation to pause, and notice. https://t.co/jFXBrr8PAl
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Skye Baker: Connection Connection explores how feeling cared for can be a powerful complement to medical treatment. https://t.co/j7faIDTPPC
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Shanmunkha Priya Mohan: What can be traced in light, and what disappears with it? Shanmunkha’s evolving cyanotype, an imprint made by sunlight of a retinal scan, invites us to consider what we see, remember, and forget. https://t.co/eKtmg14pgM
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Jerusha Kinnaird: Car Shaped People Car Shaped People brings a playful but pointed lens to the bad habits we force our bodies into. https://t.co/AP4XwIMke0
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KARC: Perspectives Perspectives invites us to consider: how different is the world when seen through other eyes? https://t.co/aMIHOxgjTp
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Matt Munday: Listening, Not Hearing Listening, Not Hearing emerges from conversations with researcher Rebecca Stewart, whose studies explore the multi-dimensional nature of sound and the unique ways we each perceive it. https://t.co/sHYaQVwCDE
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Nazusk: Crozzle Block Crozzle Block is intended to be touched. It incorporated multi-textured elements like the ‘crozzle’ in the Peak District where stoney waste material from the steel industry formed a new man-made rockform. https://t.co/jh1O0zH1Wz
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Frankie Strand: Unseen Presences Unseen Presences invites us to consider how we, and all life on earth, are products of our particular star and its invisible influences. https://t.co/bgQGBZwYet
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