Summer with the Museums

Make your very own spell bottle and learn about the history of witches and witchcraft in the fens.

Create and reveal your own hidden message using this DIY invisible ink! What will your secret message say? And who will get to read it?

Follow the instructions to make your own 'Museum on a Shelf'.

Learn about 1940s life with special displays, trails and activities.

Visit the Museum for a special Tudor trail and related art and craft activities. 

Learn all about medieval crafts and weaponry - and maybe watch a battle or two!

Join artist Susie Olczak for an arts and crafts workshop inspired by Ancient Greek and Roman statues.

Visit the museum for a day of music, dancing and games. 

Visit the Farmland Museum for traditional games and a teddy bear's picnic. 

Follow the story of Fenland Farming from past to present with a special trail and activities.

Follow the archaeological trail and try your hand at some archaeological arts and crafts.

Pick up an activity guide and explore the folklore at the Museum of Cambridge through fun games and challenges.

Join us at the Polar Museum for our family friendly opening days during the summer holidays. These days are bookable specifically for children and their carers.

Complete the Noah’s Ark trail and try out some related activities.

Complete the special trail and try building your own tower.

A family-friendly glass fusing activity where everyone gets to take part.

Learn how to cut glass and make your own kiln-fired artwork.

 Fun storytelling and craft sessions for children aged 3 - 6 years.

Fun storytelling and craft sessions for children aged 3 - 6 years.

Fun storytelling and craft sessions for children aged 3 - 6 years.

Drop-in to the Museum for special holiday trails and crafts. 

A special colouring activity based on the beautiful patterned walls of the David Parr House.

Join Ely Museum for a fun drop-in prehistory themed craft session. With lots of fun crafts to try and real museum objects to handle, there is plenty to enjoy.

Join Ely Museum for a fun drop-in Roman themed craft session. With lots of fun crafts to try and real museum objects to handle, there is plenty to enjoy.

Discover how  people in the 17th century wrote letters and books and have a go yourself. 

A special event at the Fitzwilliam Museum aimed at children with special educational needs who usually find visiting museums overwhelming due to conditions that affect their sensory processing and/or have a developmental disability. 

A special event at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology aimed at children with special educational needs who usually find visiting museums overwhelming due to conditions that affect their sensory processing and/or have a developmental disability. 

A special event at the Sedgwick Museum aimed at children with special educational needs who usually find visiting museums overwhelming due to conditions that affect their sensory processing and/or have a developmental disability. 

Join us in St Peter’s Churchyard for free, practical art making activities. Be inspired by Kettle’s Yard and make your own artworks. Pick up one of our family art activity packs and get creative with our artists. You can collect your materials to make outside at Kettle’s Yard or take them home with you.

A special workshop for 2-5 year olds inspired by the book 'Too Much Stuff', a comical tale about the perils of wanting too many things.

A special morning event for families.

Join experts to find out what has been caught in the Garden's moth trap the night before.

Join a twilight ramble through the Botanic Garden and learn about the fascinating world of bats.

Join a twilight ramble through the Botanic Garden and learn about the fascinating world of bats.

Fancy sinking your (blue)teeth into a bit of electronics tinkering? Make your own Bluetooth speaker to hook up to a phone or other Bluetooth device. 

This year, Family Art Week is themed around the senses, inspired by our temporary exhibitions: The Human Touch and Scent from Nature. We will have free art activities on the lawn between Tues 27th July and Friday 30 July. 

The event is unfortunately SOLD OUT, however, we have online activities through our website here.

Are you 11-14 years old? Have you been missing the opportunity to get creative with others and take inspiration from amazing art works and objects?

Join us at the Fitz: Tuesday 3 August - Friday 6 August for 4 days packed with creative activities to earn your Bronze Arts Award!

Join Ely Museum for a fun drop-in Dinosaur themed craft session. With lots of fun crafts to try and real museum objects to handle, there is plenty to enjoy.
 

Discover what types of herbs the Cromwells used to make their food taste yummy, and to make their home and selves smell good.

A hands-on portrait drawing session with Peterborough artist, Tony Nero.

Do you have what it takes to join the New Modelled Army, and fight for Parliament? Join this workshop to make your own equipment, meet real Civil War soldiers, and receive your training certification, signed by Oliver Cromwell!

What are the hands of our casts up to?
This self- led quiz like activity will show you the parts of our statues which are often overlooked, and test your detective skills!

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be one of our casts? This activity will take you through a yoga-like routine, letting you try out some of the casts’ poses.

Some cows have had a moo-vellous morning at the Fitz. But, they have become separated and need to return to their field before the farmer gets worried. Can you find and tick off these cows from around The Moo-seum?

Download or print off this activity. Or pick up a copy from our Museum Reception. 

Join us for our free Family First Saturday at the Museum (14.00 until 16.00). This month activities are based on the theme of flowers. To ensure the safety of our visitors, number restrictions will apply and you will need to book a ticket for all family members in advance.

Join the team from Wisbech & Fenland Museum for drop-in activities on the theme of Romans.

Join the team from Wisbech & Fenland Museum for drop-in activities on the Stone and Iron Ages.

In the past, books like the ones in the Cambridge University Library Special Collections, were handmade and handwritten. 

Follow this step by step tutorial to make your own handmade notebook, inspired by the Greek Medieval Collections at the Library. 

Join the team from Wisbech & Fenland Museum for drop-in activities on the theme of fossils.

How to find fossils in flint gravel. Did you know flint has a story to tell of 90 million years from a warm sea to the last ice age?

Discover the extraordinary advances made in technology over 50 years of computing history.

Python is everywhere! Join this workshop to learn the fundamentals of coding before making a game.  

Create your own personal fitness gadget at this coding workshop.

A day-long event of friendly competition with other young game designers.

Join this Scratch workshop to recreate Atari's 1980 arcade game Missile Command.

Come down to the Centre for Computing History to test your mettle on Mario Kart 8.

Come and find out how a computer can be programmed by a strip of paper, and learn about the history of computers and how they have radically transformed our lives.  

Learn how to build and program with the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Join this workshop to learn some fundamentals of coding before making your own game. 

Join this Scratch workshop to recreate Atari's 1980 arcade game Missile Command.

Enjoy this 30-minute museum tour and explore the history of video games.

Learn how to develop your own interactive story using the TWINE scripting tool.

Can you spot our colourful dinosaurs hidden around the museum?

Craft at home and wear to the museum!

Have you ever wondered how you make and fit a horseshoe? Come and see farrier Gavin Moody's shoeing demonstration at the museum.

Enjoy a range of summer activities and outdoor fun at the National Horseracing Museum

Join storyteller Marion Leper for stories based on the world around us.

A sensory play activity for under fives

A bookable workshop where you can design and make your own clay tile.

A bookable workshop where you can design and make your own clay tile.

Complete a gallery trail each week to earn stickers for your summer sticker book, plus drop-in to the Museum for themed crafts each Friday.

Try making your own weather vane with this downloadable activity. 

Visit the Museum every Thursday to create your own artworks based on objects in the museum's collections

Find out more about the amazing women behind some of the objects in the Whipple Museum's collection! Follow the museum trail at any time when the museum is open or come on a Monday afternoon to take part in practical activities based on a different woman each week. Booking essential.

Join Ely Museum for a fun drop-in Fenland themed craft session. With lots of fun crafts to try and real museum objects to handle, there is plenty to enjoy.

Join us in creating a Protest Plastic salt-dough sculpture together and hear from marine experts to help design your message.

Go on safari in Cambridge’s green spaces to discover the plants and animals that live in these city centre wildlife havens.

Find out about, and have a go at different types of printing. Create a masterpiece to take home with you.

Find out about, and have a go at different types of printing. Create a masterpiece to take home with you.

Find out about, and have a go at different types of printing. Create a masterpiece to take home with you.

Join this artist-led workshop where you will be able create an art work using the Lights of Fantasy Flying Machine. 

Join this artist-led workshop where you will be able create an art work using the Lights of Fantasy Flying Machine. 

Find out more about the amazing women behind some of the objects in the Whipple Museum's collection! Follow the museum trail at any time when the museum is open or come on a Monday afternoon to take part in practical activities based on a different woman each week. Booking essential.

Find out more about the amazing women behind some of the objects in the Whipple Museum's collection! Follow the museum trail at any time when the museum is open or come on a Monday afternoon to take part in practical activities based on a different woman each week. Booking essential.

Twenty mice have escaped from Larratts Mill and are hiding in the museum. Can you follow the trail and find them all?

Uncover the hidden stories of the Garden on this new trail for summer 2021

Find out more about the amazing women behind some of the objects in the Whipple Museum's collection! Follow the museum trail at any time when the museum is open or come on a Monday afternoon to take part in practical activities based on a different woman each week. Booking essential.

Join Saffron Walden Museum in their grounds near the newly opened Walden Castle for some fun crafting activities. 

Join Saffron Walden Museum in their grounds near the newly opened Walden Castle for some fun crafting activities. 

If you want to have a go recording butterfly behaviours for yourself why not take part in our Zoology Live Butterfly Challenge.

Join Saffron Walden Museum in their grounds near the newly opened Walden Castle for some fun crafting activities. 

This year for Zoology Live, we are challenging you to take part in a Protest Plastics challenge. There's a few ways to get involved, from creating a Protest Plastics sculpture to pledging to swap a plastic item.

Join us for our Cowpats about Cambridge summer challenge and discover what creatures live inside a pile of dung.

Join Saffron Walden Museum in their grounds near the newly opened Walden Castle for some fun crafting activities. 

Join Saffron Walden Museum in their grounds near the newly opened Walden Castle for some fun crafting activities.

Visit the Centre for Computing History and test your mettle on Mario Kart 8 on the WiiU.