Since 2009, the festival (or convivial in steampunk parlance) has been held each year in Lincoln and currently stretches over multiple venues in the historic cathedral quarter of Lincoln town, Lincoln Castle and Bishop Grosseteste University.

The cobbled streets of historic Lincoln are transformed with top hats, flying goggles, corsets and flamboyant feathers,

creativity, imagination, fun, entertainment, parades, and exhibitions.

The Lincoln Steampunk Festival is the largest steampunk festival in the world and a highlight of the city's events calendar, with thousands of people thronging the streets many in stunning creative outfits and costumes.

The festival attracts visitors from all around the world and for just four days the historic streets of the city become a victorianesque world which owes as much to “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” and “Back to the Future” as Lincoln’s genuine and beautiful history.

Steampunk is an inclusive arts movement that reimagines our Victorian past…