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From talks about the art of science to a multisensory dark matter experience, this year's Festival is set to be bigger than ever. Visitors were treated to soaring temperatures as the Festival got underway, with more than 750 researchers, scientists and clinicians attending. The Great Exhibition Road Festival 2019 is a celebration of science and the arts in the spirit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's vision for the Great Exhibition, 200 years on from when they were born. This year's Festival brings together more than twenty institutions in and around South Kensington for the first time, including Imperial College London, the Royal Commission of 1851, Royal Albert Hall, V&A, Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. With over 150 live events, the Festival is transforming the area, which is closed to traffic, as activities spill out into the surrounding streets. The beating heart of the event is the 11 interactive themed zones packed full of creative activities, live experiments and friendly experts from the partner organisations, including a Nature Zone, Museum of Food, Robot Zone and Design Zone. A street food market offers visitors to eat their way around the world, from Japanese to Spanish, Vietnamese to Italian.
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