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The Great Exhibition Road Festival Returns
This June, Imperial College plays host to a grand cultural festival, and they've invited their famous neighbours along for the show.
The Great Exhibition Road Festival takes over the eponymous road during the weekend of 6-7 June 2026. This year's festival is an anniversary of sorts, marking 175 years since the namesake Great Exhibition of 1851. The proceeds from this festival were poured into South Kensington, turning it into a quarter of museums and education.
The centrepiece of the 1851 exhibition was, of course, the Crystal Palace, and it will rise again as part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival... in sand. Seven tonnes of the grainy stuff will, over the course of the weekend, be sculpted into a giant model. You'll also be able to explore the Palace in virtual reality, take walking tours of the original exhibition site, and see objects that were displayed in 1851.
