Watch City Steampunk Festival

Waltham, MA

Centered on Waltham’s beautiful Common at the corner of Main and Moody Streets, the Watch City Steampunk Festival is the great outdoor festival of the Steampunk genre—a cultural and social movement melding elements of Victorian-era history and fashion with retro-futuristic technology.

Watch City 2015 will featuring a broad array of theatrical and musical performers as well as clothing, jewelry, art, and food vendors. The Festival is will also include kids programming, making this most definitely a family friendly event, as well.

 
 

The Watch City Steampunk Festival will return May 9th, 2026!

The 2025 Festival is a Wrap!

If you attended, thank you so much for coming out! We hope you had a great time.

Check out our Gallery pages for updates to our photo collection and YouTube playlist!

The Watch City Steampunk Festival is a free outdoor community festival held in historic Waltham, MA.

Learn more via our Frequently Asked Questions page.

The Watch City Steampunk Festival is a non-profit event,
with daytime festival activities presented FREE to the public!

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If you are interested in helping us keep it that way, please consider donating!

100% of your donation goes directly to support the Watch City Steampunk Festival,
a project of the Downtown Waltham Partnership, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.
Your donation is tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. 

Thank You!

The Watch City Steampunk Festival is presented by:

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©2025 Watch City Steampunk Festival and the Downtown Waltham Partnership.
All Rights Reserved.

"Watch City Steampunk Festival" and the "Winged Watch" logo are trademarks of the Downtown Waltham Partnership

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Waltham Cultural Council,
a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Jones Partnership Fund.