Come along with your teddy bear to enjoy a day full of fun crafts and bear-themed activities!
Pre-book your own teddy bear’s picnic via our website and collect from our cafe.
Come along with your teddy bear to enjoy a day full of fun crafts and bear-themed activities!
Pre-book your own teddy bear’s picnic via our website and collect from our cafe.
Explore history in a whole new way, with medieval sword fighting!
Using specially designed equipment, people of all ages can brush up their footwork and learn the skills of a medieval knight – but who will be the ultimate champion?
Knight training sessions held hourly throughout the day and booking is via a sign-up sheet on the day on arrival at the museum, with up to 30 spaces on each session.
Ages 6+
Explore history in a whole new way, with medieval sword fighting!
Using specially designed equipment, people of all ages can brush up their footwork and learn the skills of a medieval knight – but who will be the ultimate champion?
Knight training sessions held hourly throughout the day and booking is via a sign-up sheet on the day on arrival at the museum, with up to 30 spaces on each session.
Ages 6+
What would your family’s life have been like in Victorian times?
Find out by following our trail, trying out a Victorian washday, making some crafts and learning about life in the past at Denny Abbey.
Did you know Charles Darwin was fascinated by plants that can eat insects? Come along to this hands-on session to join staff from the Botanic Garden and Cambridge University Library to get up close with some of these amazing plants.
Join staff from Cambridge University Library for this hands-on session exploring how seeds can be transported through making observations and looking at nature just like Darwin. Children will get the chance to dissect an owl pellet and discover what was eaten through the bones left behind.
Important information:
Join staff from the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences and Cambridge University Library for this hands-on session exploring rocks from the Isla Santiago. Find out how scientists from the Earth Science Department used Darwin's notebooks to follow in his footsteps, handle volcanic rocks from Isla Santiago and learn about Charles Darwin’s work as a geologist.
Join staff from the Whipple Museum and Cambridge University Library for this hands-on session exploring how to collect and observe plants just like Darwin and his friends Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port. Children will get the chance to use microscopes at the University Library and learn about the structure of a plant.
Important information:
Join staff from the Whipple Museum and Cambridge University Library for this hands-on session exploring how to collect and observe plants just like Darwin and his friends Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port. Children will get the chance to use microscopes at the University Library and learn about the structure
