TIMEWALK: An immersive ancient civilisations journey comes to London
This Summer, London will welcome a bold new cultural journey through the ancient world. TIMEWALK, a major new immersive exhibition from DEM Museums, will open at Immerse LDN at Excel Waterfront in July 2026, inviting visitors to explore the rise and fall of human civilisation through spectacular audio and visual storytelling.
Created as an immersive walk-through adventure rather than a traditional gallery display, TIMEWALK brings ancient civilisations roaring back to full scale, restoring their grandeur, atmosphere, and human stories through vivid, multi-sensory environments.
Beginning with Göbeklitepe, the moment humanity moves beyond survival to create ritual, meaning, and collective consciousness, TIMEWALK traces the earliest known chapters of civilisation and follows the echoes of human life across centuries. Göbeklitepe is also recognised as the site of the world’s earliest communal gathering. Visitors will continue through legendary ancient worlds, including Babylon, the emergence of order, urbanisation, and systems of knowledge, Ancient Egypt, the pursuit of immortality and cosmic balance, the Maya, understanding the universe through mathematics, astronomy, and cyclical time, and Rapa Nui, the cultural and spiritual significance of the Moai statues as ancestral and protective figures of the island, encountering these cultures not as distant ruins, but as living places filled with movement, meaning, and memory.
From sailing the Nile at sunset to passing through ancient city gates of Babylon, TIMEWALK reveals how civilisations built, believed, and belonged, and how their ideas still shape the world we live in today. Moving beyond traditional interpretations to present history at full scale, it offers visitors of all ages a way of connecting with the past that goes far beyond objects and information. Designed to restore the emotional depth and human dimension of ancient civilisations, it enables visitors to experience what it may have felt like to inhabit these remarkable societies.
With breathtaking visual effects, heart-pounding soundscapes, and spellbinding narration, TIMEWALK brings history to life as a living, breathing spectacle that fuses together elements of space, water, and time. Grounded in archaeological research and brought to the present through cinematic storytelling, it creates a powerful sense of wonder, curiosity, and perspective, offering a multi-sensory journey through ancient civilisations that goes far beyond the limits of a conventional museum setting.
A 25-language audio guide will further enhance the experience, making TIMEWALK’s universal story more accessible and inclusive for international visitors.
TIMEWALK is created by DEM Museums, known for pioneering experiential cultural destinations, including the globally awarded Hagia Sophia History and Experience Museum and the Ephesus Experience Museum.
Located at Immerse LDN on the Excel London Waterfront, the exhibition is easily accessible via train, London Underground, bus, and car, and is just 12 minutes from Central London on the Elizabeth Line.
General admission ticket prices start from £28.50 and children’s prices from £22.70. Tickets go on sale 17th June.
Address: Immerse LDN, Excel Waterfront, London E16 1XL
Website: www.timewalkexhibition.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timewalkexhibition
