Twilight Visitors

Discover the animal visitors who visit the Museum at night.

Ages 5 - 7

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Where

Cambridge Museum of Technology

Theme

Type of Activity

Twilight at the Museums

Type of Session

At night, when the Museum is closed, some special visitors arrive and the only way of knowing they have been because of the footprints they leave.

See if you can guess each animal by it's shadow and match it with its footprint.

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