About Brunel Museum
A museum devoted to one of the world's great engineering dynasties, the Brunel family.
The museum is in two halves, with one section in an old steam pumping house, and the other hidden underground in the original shaft dug by Brunel for the world's first underwater tunnel.
Regular talks, evening events on the roof, and on occasions, tours through the tunnels.
Address
Brunel Museum,
Railway Avenue,
Rotherhithe,
London,
SE16 4LF
Ticket prices
General Admission
- Adults: £8
- Concession/Children: £5
- Family ticket (2+4): £13
- Art Pass: Free
Guided tour weekends
- Adults: £9
- Concessions/Children: £6
- Family ticket (2+4): £15
- Art Pass: Free
Prices last checked October 2023.
Link to Brunel Museum's website
Opening Hours
The museum is open four days a week - Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, from 10:30am to 3:30pm, with the last entry at 3pm.
Opening hours last checked October 2023.
Accessibility
For accessibility information, click here.
Future events at Brunel Museum
An evening with Tim Bryan, author of Iron, Stone and Steam: Brunel’s Railway Empire.
Thursday, 7th Dec 7pm to 8pm
Frequently asked questions
What's the nearest railway station to Brunel Museum
Brunel Museum - Latest News
The huge underground circular shaft dug by Marc Brunel in Rotherhithe to help build the Thames Tunnel will be open to the public for free in August.
The Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe, which tells the story of the world’s first underwater tunnel, has been awarded £1.85 million from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for an expansion project to tell more of the story of the Thames Tunnel.
A popular toy of Victorian times was the peepshow, and a paper peepshow of the Thame Tunnel is up for sale next week.
A series of fascinating watercolours of Brunel’s tunnel under the Thames could go on public display for the first time, but only if funding can be secured.
The Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe has been granted planning permission to expand the museum site with a new pavilion that will link its two existing buildings into one larger site.
Rotherhithe’s Brunel Museum has announced that it’s turning a riverside terrace next to the museum into an outdoor cafe.
While it’s closed, the Brunel Museum has released four digitised tours of the great shaft that used to take people down to the railway beneath.
The Brunel Museum is reopening its open-air cocktail garden built on top of Brunel’s original tunnel shaft in Rotherhithe from next Friday.
The Brunel Museum, situated above Brunel’s famous under-river tunnel has announced plans for a major expansion and revamp of the buildings.
Plans to make entry to an underground chamber in Rotherhithe moved a step closer following the unveiling of the design of the new staircase that will sit inside the space.
A rare confluence of events lead to a remarkable opportunity this weekend as 4,000 people were able to walk through the world’s first underwater tunnel.
This coming May Bank Holiday will offer an exceptionally rare opportunity to walk through Brunel’s original tunnel under the Thames.
Fancy a week (well, almost) of events about the mysteries that lurk unseen under the streets of London? Sadly, mainly limited to talking about what is down there rather than actually visiting the places, the talks will still be of…
Yesterday, along with several hundred other equally excited people during the day, I finally got a chance to walk along a bit of train tunnel – yes the famous Brunel Thames Tunnel
Lurking not too far from where I live is a subterranean marvel that is considered to be one of the most important locations in engineering history
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