Family Fun
All family activities are included in the admission to Brunel's ss Great Britain.
March 22: Mother’s Day treat
Make fabulous Victorian gifts for mums, from decoupage to jewellery. FREE cupcake for ticket-carrying mums!*
*Mother’s Day offer only applies to mums, visiting Brunel’s ss Great Britain and accompanied by their children, with treats at the Dockyard Cafe!
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March 31: Engines & Entropy
7.30pm, Maritime Heritage Centre (next to Brunel’s ss Great Britain)
A talk with demonstrations by Richard Ellam, Newcomen Society & Science Historian, with commentary by Robert Evans Steward, Brunel’s ss Great Britain.
The invention of the steam engine kickstarted the industrial revolution. It also posed a puzzle for scientists, who struggled for a century and a half to discover why these magnificent machines behaved as they did. The science developed to understand steam power turned out to be hugely important and still provides us with some of our most basic and profound ideas about how the entire universe works.
Richard Ellam, a freelance science historian and member of the Newcomen Society for the History of Technology will explain the link between the steam engine and the deep secrets of the Universe in this easy to follow demonstration lecture, which features working models and audience participation.
This event is being run by the British Science Association, Bristol and Bath Branch, in association with the ss Great Britain Trust.
There is no need to book and entry is free.
For more information, contact the British Science Association:
Eric Alborne, 0117 924 7664, albone@dial.pipex.com
Exhibitions
‘All at Sea’, Baker Gallery
The Baker Gallery, situated within the Dockyard Museum, offers a range of Victorian watercolours, along with other works, including oils by maritime artist Joseph Walters, which capture two of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s ships, the ss Great Britain and Great Western, under steam. This exhibition is included in the admission to Brunel's ss Great Britain.
Events & activities low-down
- Workshops take place in the Dockyard Museum’s Medlock Education Centre, on board in the First Class Dining Saloon or Steerage, unless otherwise stated.
- Children can take their works of art home
- Collect handheld trails from the ticket office
- Please pre-book evening events on 0117 926 0680
- Workshops and reenactors from 11am to 4pm
- Mr Brunel from 10am to 4.30pm
- Mother’s, Father’s and Grandparent’s Day offer applies to mums, dads or grandparents visiting Brunel’s ss Great Britain, accompanied by their children or grandchildren, with treats at the Dockyard Café!
- Please call to check events before leaving home. Brunel’s ss Great Britain cannot be held liable for changes beyond our control.
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