The Science Museum has announced a new partnership with Serendipity Arts, with Innovation Lates at the museum opening the free cross-institution Great Exhibition Road Festival. The festival will launch on Friday 5 June with Innovation Lates at the Science Museum, a special Lates celebrating creativity, innovation and exchange. Serendipity Arts is a not-for-profit foundation which nurtures artistic practice, research, and cross-cultural dialogue across South Asia and internationally. The organisation supports emerging and established artists working across disciplines. 

This summer’s Great Exhibition Road Festival marks 175 years since the Great Exhibition of 1851, the profits of which helped establish the museums, colleges and cultural institutions of South Kensington. The weekend is packed full of hands-on workshops, including the Science Museum’s Mission to Space and Rocket Mice sessions, fascinating talks and compelling performances. It will feature a special live performance presented by Serendipity Arts, Giants on the Move: A Puppet Street Parade, directed by puppeteer Dadi Pudumjee, which will wind its way among the crowds on Exhibition Road.