The Festival of Tomorrow - Plan your week
The Festival of Tomorrow - Plan your week

Plan your week

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.
The Festival of Tomorrow - Plan your week

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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The Festival of Tomorrow - Plan your week

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).

The Festival of Tomorrow - Plan your week
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.
The Festival of Tomorrow - Plan your week

The Works is Swindon’s home for heritage, knowledge and big ideas, encompassing both the former GWR Works site and the Railway Village. It brings them together into one cohesive area, characterised by its railway heritage, unique facilities and attractions to be discovered. 

We're proud to have a range of Festival acitivities taking place in the works. As well as at STEAM Museum, and the Swindon Designer Outlet

We'll also be using a new pop-up venue in Unit 11 of the Carriage Works, London Steet, SN1 5DG. Here, all week, you'll find the incredible Hot House interactive robotic garden and the Our Future Earth open art exhibition, along with a range of creative science and art activities.
You can also find it at what 3 words: ///logo.print.rare 

And we'll even be hosting two Sofa Screenings in Create Studios amazing new venue in Unit 10 of the Carriage Works!

 

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The Festival of Tomorrow - Plan your week
The Festival of Tomorrow - Plan your week
Admission and check in
 
For booked events, please make sure you bring all your tickets with you for admission. You can print them off or show them on your mobile device. 
If you have booked for Finale talks and shows, we recommend arriving 15-30 minutes before the start of your first session, to allow time to check in and make your way through the venue. 
 
Refreshments
 
At the Festival Finale, at the Deanery Academy: 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.
We also have a picnic area for visitors bringing their own food and drink. Please keep this area clean and free from litter to be considerate of other visitors and to help our amazing volunteers and host venue.
 
At Steam Museum: The Platform One Cafe will be open at Steam Museum, and a wide range of food and drink outlets are available at the nearby Swindon Designer Outlet, where you will find even more Festival activities.
Visitor
Parent
Visitor
Caroline Knowles – University of Reading
Swindon teacher

Engaging and insightful workshop

The workshop was very engaging and insightful. The children and staff both loved all of the activities and all could feel like they could join in.

- Swindon teacher

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

Phenomenal event

Congratulations on a phenomenal event!

- Tim Barrett– Intel

Highlight of school holiday week!

I visited with my children and they loved it, it was the highlight of their school holiday week. We will definitely come again next year!

- Parent

100% success!

The main reason we came was to show our children how interesting and entertaining science can be. The event succeeded 100% in doing this.

- Parent