Digital Guide and Audio Tour

Bring your visit to life with Bloomberg Connects

Our immersive Digital Guide and Audio Tour allow visitors to delve into our fascinating collection, archives and history as you make your way around the site. Listen to museum curators share fascinating stories and insights, hear from the ship’s conservation engineer as well as former dock workers in our working shipyard.

You can access the Digital Guide and Audio Tour by downloading the Bloomberg Connects app, visiting the Bloomberg Connects website via your phone browser, or by scanning the QR codes situated throughout the dockyard, ship and museums. We recommend downloading the app in advance of your visit for a seamless experience.

Please remember to bring your own headphones.

Featured on our Digital Guide and Audio Tour:

• A guided audio tour throughout the site including the ship, dry dock, two museums and more.
• Exclusive interviews with our team of experts, letting you delve deeper into the history and stories of the SS Great Britain and learn about how we continue to conserve the iconic ship.
• Meet the passengers on board and watch as their stories are brought to life with exciting video content.
• Don’t miss a thing thanks to in app prompts and highlights allowing you to zoom in on some of our most fascinating objects in the Brunel Institute collection.