Great Exhibition Road Festival 2026

Join us in South Kensington to celebrate science and the arts with a weekend of free events for all ages.

Come to the Great Exhibition Road Festival this summer to discover an exciting range of events lined up from Imperial College London, the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, the Royal Parks, V&A, and many more organisations around South Kensington.

Exhibition Road will come alive with cutting-edge experiments, mind-bending technology, music, dance, art, live science shows and parades!

Explore the ideas that will shape our futures through lively talks, demonstrations, live science shows and hands-on workshops. Discover what life is like for Antarctic researchers, taste the food of the future at live kitchen demos, play steelpan drums with the UK's first steel band, and bring your best moves to the Earthbeat silent disco, an immersive dance adventure.

Discuss the five-decade journey of robotic exploration of Mars and discover how art and space engineering meet in an origami workshop or create your own black hole-inspired ornament. Then take a break to enjoy music on the Main Stage from the Royal Albert Hall and presented by West London’s Portobello Radio.

To mark 175 years since the Great Exhibition of 1851, the most attended public exhibition in London’s history, revisit the event that helped South Kensington become the home of science and the arts.

The first World Fair, the Great Exhibition brought together more than 100,000 exhibits, capturing a moment of remarkable innovation and curiosity that shaped how Victorian Britain viewed the world. Discover its hidden stories through an interactive art installation and join a discussion on its complex history and impact on science, the arts and communities today.

Register for the Festival now and follow us @ExRdFestival on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook for the latest updates and to be the first to find out about free tickets for popular talks, workshops and shows.

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The Great Exhibition Road Festival is a free annual celebration of science and the arts each summer in South Kensington.

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Find out more about the Great Exhibition Road Festival on the Festival website at www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk.

The Festival is brought to you by: Imperial College London | Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851| Discover South Kensington | Natural History Museum | The Royal Parks | Science Museum | V&A | Royal Albert Hall | Goethe-Institut London | Institut français | Ismaili Centre | Royal College of Art | Royal Society of Sculptors

With thanks to the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 for their ongoing support and to our key partners the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster City Council.

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