Brunel Museum

What an amazing afternoon for Stepney Partnership families! IK Brunel (well, Robert, Director of the Museum who dressed up as him) met us on the platform at Wapping train station. He gave us a brief talk about the Thames Tunnel before taking us on a tour of the river and the Brunel Museum.

We did some excellent mask making with Lucy. Children and parents chose different 'characters' that would be part of the tunnel building process.

Finally, we went on an underground adventure, squeezing our way into a a huge and cavernous underground space which used to be the grand entrance to the Thames Tunnel. We did some singing in the dark, and made our way carefully above ground (the lights refused to come back on!).

Thanks to everyone at the Brunel Museum, we recommend that you make a visit there sometime! The trip was part of Stepney Partnership's holiday activities and linked to the family homework theme of 'heroes and heroines'.