Get inspired by the Museum’s Folk Art exhibition and release your inner artist! Join in a range of family craft activities throughout the summer holidays.
Get inspired by the Museum’s Folk Art exhibition and release your inner artist! Join in a range of family craft activities throughout the summer holidays.
Get inspired by the Museum’s Folk Art exhibition and release your inner artist! Join in a range of family craft activities throughout the summer holidays.
Get inspired by the museum's Folk Art exhibition and release your inner artist! Join in a range of family craft activities throughout the summer holidays.
Take a voyage of discovery into how animal senses and characteristics have adapted over millions of years. find out how some animals can change colour and body temperatures and how others; including humans, adjust to widely different temperatures and environments.
Please note due to space restrictions adult numbers are limited to 1 per child.
Pre-book: Eventbrite
Ages 7+
Free, pre-book
Come and make your own fossil rubbing of footprints, frogs, fish, pterosaurs and much more. Once you have done your rubbing, see if you can find similar fossils in the museum collection.
Ages 4+
Free, drop-in
Summer at the Museums
This event is part of Summer at the Museums, a mix of hands-on activities, events and trails, for families to enjoy throughout the summer holidays.
Palaeontologists (people who study dinosaurs) don't know for sure what colour dinosaurs were. Come do your own research then make and decorate your own pair of dinosaur feet to wear home.
Ages 4+
Free, drop-in
Summer at the Museums
This event is part of Summer at the Museums, a mix of hands-on activities, events and trails, for families to enjoy throughout the summer holidays.
Learn about some fascinating fossils that are over 600million years old and find out how these extinct Ediacaran creatures lived. Be a palaeontologist for the morning and cast your very own plaster copy of these mysterious creatures.
Limited space and availability – please be patient
Please note this activity takes place outside the museum.
Ages 5+
Free, drop in
Discover animals without legs with stories and play and make your own worm to take home with you.
Pre-book: www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events
Summer at the Museums
This event is part of Summer at the Museums, a mix of hands-on activities, events and trails, for families to enjoy throughout the summer holidays.
Visit the museum for an afternoon of coral-themes activities. Learn about these amazing animals, the habitats they create and the threats they face with hands-on activities and crafts. Visit the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on the same day to learn about people from the Pacific Islands of Kiribati and how they rely on corals.
