This Easter, families are invited to discover inside certainly one of London’s most recognisable landmarks as Tower Bridge marks 140 years since building first started in 1886 with a programme of hands-on artistic actions impressed by Victorian innovation.
Designed for curious minds and energetic explorers, Tower Bridge’s Easter Family Activities are free with admission and mix making, motion and mechanical marvels, giving youngsters the possibility to uncover how Victorian engineers and inventors formed the fashionable world, all whereas exploring the Bridge from prime to backside.
Designed by Sir Horace Jones and John Wolfe Barry, the Grade I-listed bascule bridge took eight years to construct and was the most important of its variety when it opened in 1894. Today, guests can expertise the engineering surprise from the within, combining wealthy historical past with interactive and fascinating experiences.
This Easter’s providing is Moving Pictures, an interactive drop-in exercise impressed by phenakistoscopes – standard Nineteenth-century toys that demonstrated one of many earliest types of animation. Families will uncover how the phantasm of movement works earlier than creating their very own spinning animation that includes one other Victorian icon: Tower Bridge itself.
The periods, impressed by STEAM topics – science, expertise, engineering, arts and arithmetic – are designed particularly for 6 – 10-year-olds, however are open to all youngsters, making them best for mixed-age families wanting for a fascinating and academic London time out in the course of the college holidays.
Easter Family Activities at Tower Bridge – Moving Pictures
Learning Space, South Tower
Tuesday 31 March, Tuesday 7 April and Saturday 11 April 2026
10:00 – 16:00
Free with admission. No reserving required. Drop-in all through the day.
Each collaborating household additionally receives a Family Activities Pass, providing free entry on any Family Activities Day inside the subsequent six months.
Beyond the actions, families can stroll throughout the High-Level Walkways and Glass Floors, suspended 42 metres above the River Thames, providing dramatic views of town under and, when timed proper, a novel birds-eye view of the well-known Bridge lifting to enable ships to cross, an occasion that also occurs round 800 instances annually.
In the atmospheric Victorian Engine Rooms, youngsters and adults alike can see the unique steam engines, coal-fired boilers and hydraulic programs that after powered the Bridge’s bascules. Interactive shows, movies and oral histories carry to life the tales of the engineers and employees who stored London shifting.
All alongside the best way, families are invited to full the interactive path impressed by ‘The Tower Bridge Cat’ and the characters from the award-winning books. Find the installations all through the attraction and meet the Bridge Master and his group – Hannah, the Cook, Poppy, the Painter, and Stan, the Stoker, and similar twins Eddie the Engineer and Olly the Oiler – who will all assist to full duties, reply questions concerning the Bridge’s historical past and accumulate stamps to develop into a part of Bella’s particular Tower Bridge group.
Tower Bridge is an accessible, family-friendly attraction, with interactive trails, month-to-month Family Activities, Relaxed Openings designed for neurodiverse guests – providing a peaceful, stress-reduced surroundings to discover at their very own tempo – and a dog-friendly coverage welcoming well-behaved canines. Guided excursions are additionally obtainable on chosen dates for families who need to discover the Bridge’s historical past in additional depth.
Tickets to discover inside Tower Bridge begin from £18 per grownup and £9 per little one, with a spread of household tickets additionally obtainable to e-book. Further info and full listings of upcoming Family Activities will be discovered at www.towerbridge.org.uk.
