Great Exhibition Road Festival coming to Science Museum
The Science Museum, in a partnership with Serendipity Arts, has announced Innovation Lates at the museum, opening the free-cross-institution Great Exhibition Road Festival. The festival will launch on Friday 5th June with Innovation Lates at the museum, a special event celebrating “creativity, innovation, and exchange.”
This summer’s Great Exhibition Road Festival marks 175 years since the Great Exhibition of 1851, the profits of which helped establish South Kensington’s museums, colleges, and cultural institutions
“The Great Exhibition drew creators, scientists, inventors and millions of visitors to South Kensington, and 175 years on, that instinct to look outward and celebrate innovation and creativity together is still what drives us,” Peter Dickinson, Director of Audiences at the Science Museum Group, said. “Join us as we showcase this throughout a weekend packed full of free fun for everyone, in partnership with Serendipity Arts and the Great Exhibition Road Festival.’
Serendipity Arts is a non-profit foundation which “nurtures artistic practice, research, and cross-cultural dialogue across South Asia and internationally,” the museum said. The organisation supports emerging and established artists working across disciplines.
“Through our collaboration with the Science Museum, and our participation in Innovation Lates and the Great Exhibition Road Festival, we are exploring how artistic experiences can move across formats and spaces, from immersive works within the museum to large-scale public interventions on the street,” Smriti Rajgarhia, Director at Serendipity Arts, said. “Through projects such as Eyes Shall Deceive and Giants on the Move, we hope to show how art can move fluidly between settings, shifting from the intimacy of the museum to the openness of the street. In doing so, these works create participatory, layered, and accessible moments that invite audiences to engage with contemporary artistic practices in new and unexpected ways.”
Visit the Science Museum’s website for more information on the Great Exhibition Road Festival.
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