Create your own jousting knight with a pull-back mechanism.
Hold tournaments with your friends. Whose knight will be victorious?
Aimed at children aged 7-11.
Booking essential.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2026.
Make your very own light-up dragon to take home.
Choose between a fire breathing dragon, an ice-shooting dragon or a venomous green dragon and custom decorate your mythical beast. Learn about connecting circuits to make it glow.
Booking essential.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2026.
After growing up and feeling that she wasn't being seen in the books she read, Hephzibah was inspired to write her own novel 'Chronicles of the Timekeeper'. By the time she had finished writing the book when she was ten, Hephzibah won the title for the longest fiction novel written by a child author.
Get inspiration from the beautiful stained glass collection for your own story's characters and setting before Hephzibah shares her own fantastic story writing secrets with you, helping you plan for a fantastic story of your own.
During this fun, child-friendly session you will learn the principles and theory of glass cutting, fusing and firing. You will then work on your own design and make a 10cm x 10cm glass piece.
Your glass will need to be kiln-fired after the workshop is finished. This process takes 24 hours and will usually takes place within a week of the session. Once your fused artwork has been kiln-fired and cooled, the Museum will contact you to let you know it is ready for collection.
During this fun, child-friendly session you will learn the principles and theory of glass cutting, fusing and firing. You will then work on your own design and make a stunning 10cm x 10cm glass piece.
Your glass will need to be kiln-fired after the workshop is finished.
This process takes 24 hours and will usually takes place within a week of the session. Once your fused artwork has been kiln-fired and cooled, the Museum will contact you to let you know it is ready for collection.
This August, come join our new polar story hour, a chance to listen to a selection of stories from the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Before Kat started at the Polar Museum, she was a primary school teacher, and she loves finding the chance to read her favourite polar books aloud. We'll also have a special object handling activity at the end to help bring the stories to life!
This August, come join our new polar story hour, a chance to listen to a selection of stories from the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Before Kat started at the Polar Museum, she was a primary school teacher, and she loves finding the chance to read her favourite polar books aloud. We'll also have a special object handling activity at the end to help bring the stories to life!
This August, come join our new polar story hour, a chance to listen to a selection of stories from the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Before Kat started at the Polar Museum, she was a primary school teacher, and she loves finding the chance to read her favourite polar books aloud. We'll also have a special object handling activity at the end to help bring the stories to life!
Have you found a fossil or interesting rock over the summer? Drop in with your finds and our Museum scientists can help you identify them.
You can also learn how to find fossils in everyday gravel, and get hands on with some of our amazing fossils and rocks.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2026.
Drop in to meet Earth scientists Jeannie Booth, Mengyao Du and Simon Crowhurst and explore amazing, tiny 5000-year-old fossils under powerful microscopes.
Discover what these microfossils can tell us about oceans and climates thousands of years ago. Compare the features of different microfossils and get stuck into making your own microfossil model out of clay, to take home.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2026.
