INTRODUCTION
How do you celebrate the life and work of a genius — one of England’s most famous inventors, Isambard Kingdom Brunel? The organizers wanted to demonstrate his genius for engineering by portraying the inner workings of Brunel’s mind. In the Being Brunel Visitor Centre, guests can literally step into the mind of the inventor. They enter a show through the ear of a giant recreation of Brunel’s head.
The aim was to create an immersive experience that gave visitors an insight into the process of invention in the nineteenth century. The experience had to communicate the scale and diversity of Brunel’s achievements. No mean feat for a ground-breaking engineer who built dockyards, the Great Western Railway, the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship and many innovative bridges and tunnels.
