The Brunel Museum

The Museum is an educational charity and tells the story of one of the world’s great engineering dynasties, the Brunels. The Museum centres around the Thames Tunnel under the river Thames, the first underwater tunnel anywhere in the world built between 1824-43. Here, Marc Isambard Brunel organised the world’s first underground concert party in 1827, and the Museum celebrates and interprets music and theatre as well as engineering. Our mission is to preserve and share widely the ground-breaking stories of the Thames Tunnel project and the outstanding achievements of the Brunel family and their relevance to our lives today. We inspire communities through exploration, learning and performance.