Booking fees
£1.50 booking fee per online transaction, £2.50 by phone.
No fee when tickets are booked in person.
Booking fees are per transaction and not per ticket. If your booking contains several events the highest booking fee will apply. Booking fees do not currently apply to bookings for exhibitions in the Art Gallery. The booking fee may be reduced on certain events.
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Long Read: Brave New Words - Writing the Unknown
From Mary Shelley’s apocalyptic future in The Last Man, to Philip K. Dick’s surreal Ubik, Science Fiction librarian and Into the Unknown advisor, Andy Sawyer, uncovers how writers have been inspired by the unknown.

Watch: Barbican Meets - Samantha Cristoforetti
We meet Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti (who holds a few spaceflight records — including being the first person ever to brew an espresso in space) shares her thoughts on Science Fiction and what the genre can tell us about the future.

Watch: Designing Into the Unknown
Learn how traditional special effect technique 'cloud tanks', as used by SFX pioneer Douglas Trumbull in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner, were combined with modern technology to create our otherworldly Into the Unknown photography.



