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Attending events

Events at STEAM Museum Sat 15 - Sat 22 Feb

Events at Swindon Designer Outlet, Sat 15 to Sat 22 Feb

Festival Finale 21 - 22 Feb

Please make sure you bring all your tickets with you for admission and any pre-booked talks and shows. You can print them off or show them on your mobile device.

If you have booked for talks and shows, we recommend arriving at least 30 minutes before the start of your first session, to allow time to check in and make your way through the venue.

We hate to leave seats empty, so for free events, unbooked, or unused seats will be allocated to walk-up visitors on first-come, first-served basis, so do arrive on time if you have booked tickets.

Festival activities at STEAM Museum will be Free to attend all half term week. With plenty of drop-in activities programmed all week, there's no need to book.

If you walk to STEAM from the Swindon Railway Station, Town Centre or Bus Station, it is likely to take you 10 – 20 minutes depending on your pace. Parking is avaiable in the Swindon Designer Outlet North Car Park, and Disabled Parking is available at the front of the museum.

To access the Festival events, walk past the main entrance to STEAM and head for the Festival banners at the end of the building!

https://www.steam-museum.org.uk/visit/getting-here/

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There will be free events and activities popping up all week at the Swindon Designer Outlet!

If you walk to the Outlet from the Swindon Railway Station, Town Centre or Bus Station, it is likely to take you 10 – 20 minutes depending on your pace. Parking is available in the Swindon Designer Outlet North Car Park (Kemble Drive, SN2 2NA) and and West Car Park (Penzance Drive, SN5 7JL).

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This year the Festival of Tomorrow Finale is being held at The Deanery CE Academy, Peglars Way, Swindon SN1 7DA

By bus: Swindon's Bus Company Service #11 or Stagecoach Route #9 (Get off at Waitrose)

On foot / by bike - The Deanery is a pleasant walk along the Canal Towpath from the town centre or the Old Railway Line from Old Town

By car or taxi: Use the address above in google maps or What3Words - medium best grapes https://w3w.co/medium.best.grapes

Free car parking for up to 192 cars is available on site. However, parking may get very busy at peak times, so please plan ahead and leave at least 30 minutes to park before any talks and shows or use alternative methods of transport if you can.

Please make sure you bring all your tickets with you for admission and any pre-booked talks and shows. You can print them off or show them on your mobile device.

We hate to leave seats empty, so for free events, unbooked, or unused seats will be allocated to walk-up visitors on first-come, first-served basis.

This year the in-person Festival of Tomorrow is being held at The Deanery CE Academy, Peglars Way, Swindon SN1 7DA

By bus: Swindon's Bus Company Service #11 or Stagecoach Route #9 (Get off at Waitrose)

On foot / by bike - The Deanery is a pleasant walk along the Canal Towpath from the town centre or the Old Railway Line from Old Town

By car or taxi: Use the address above in google maps or What3Words - medium best grapes https://w3w.co/medium.best.grapes

Free car parking for up to 192 cars is available on site. However, parking may get very busy at peak times, so please plan ahead and leave plenty of time to park before any talks and shows or use alternative methods of transport if you can.

Admission and check in

Please make sure you bring all your tickets with you for admission and any pre-booked talks and shows. You can print them off or show them on your mobile device.

If you have booked for talks and shows, we recommend arriving at least 30 minutes before the start of your first session, to allow time to check in and make your way through the venue.

Refreshments

The Cornerstone Café will be open for hot and cold drinks, light lunches and snacks.

Hall & Woodhouse pub sits directly opposite the school, with great food and drink in a gorgeous canal-side atmosphere.

Waitrose is a five minute walk across the canal bridge.

Carole Bent Founder : STEMtoSTEAM Suppers Creative Catalyst Art Partner

Caroline Knowles – University of Reading

I wish you could do another one immediately!

Amazing! I loved the show and all the different stalls. I wish you could do another one immediately!

- Visitor

Still talking about it!

My 9 year old grandson is still talking about it 6 days later. He was so enthusiastic after I took him on the Friday his parents took him on the Saturday.

- Grandparent

STEM to STEAM

In an increasingly robotised world, the need for human creativity, humanity and positive multidisciplinary collaborations has rarely felt more important. The role that the arts play, including in connecting people with science, technology, engineering and maths is essential. I look forward to visiting the Festival of Tomorrow, discovering & exploring developments. I congratulate Rod Hebden and the team in bringing this Festival to life.

- Carole Bent Founder : STEMtoSTEAM Suppers Creative Catalyst Art Partner