• Focus: Brunel Museum

    An entrance to a Brunel pedestrian tunnel under the Thames has reopened as a modern and active space Close to Rotherhithe Overground station in south-east London, you can now step down 7m in to Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s first-ever project… one where he nearly drowned but one that was the world’s first underground theatre.

  • The Grand Entrance Hall, Brunel Museum / Tate Harmer

    Designed when he was a teenager, with his father Marc Brunel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s very first project - the Thames Tunnel, spanning 396m underwater - was a world first. Celebrated with underground fairs and banquets before being converted for steam trains, its entrance shaft has lain inaccessible and unused for more than 150 years. Now, thanks to a new entrance and staircase by Tate Harmer, it is welcoming revellers once again