We look forward to welcoming you to the Polar Museum for a relaxed morning aimed at children with special educational needs and disabilities, who usually find visiting museums overwhelming due to conditions that affect their sensory processing and/or have a developmental disability, and their families, siblings and carers.
During this time, the museum will be open exclusively for families with children with sensory sensitivities, so we can ensure a quieter environment.
We'll be making paper puppets in our Discovery Room PLUS you'll be able to photograph your favourite animal and turn your photo into your own animal gift tag. Plus we'll be sharing some tips on how to have a more sustainable festive season. Why not combine this FREE activity day with some shopping in our Museum shop and lunch in the Whale Café! Suitable for families.
Museum opens at 10am, activities start at 12 noon until 4pm. FREE, drop in.
Join us in our Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers, no previous art experience needed!
This week we’ll be joined by world renowned carnival artists from the UK Centre for Carnival Arts, inspired by our exhibition Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso.
Join us for a disability friendly quiet Studio Sunday session aimed at children and families with additional sensory needs.
Join us in our Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers, no previous art experience needed!
Early Years Studio is a fun, creative, immersive experience for children aged 0-4. The sessions are designed with early years development in mind. Artists draw upon their expertise as early years facilitators and use the Kettle’s Yard ethos and collection to create sessions where babies, toddlers and their carers can experience and learn together.
Join us in our Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers, no previous art experience needed!
Activities are for all but most suitable for children between 3 and 11 years. We like to encourage parents/carers to create alongside their child.
If Studio Sunday is busy, you can still get creative by picking up some of our free art activities from the desk.
FREE, drop in between 1-4pm
Have you ever wanted to find out more about the barnacles cemented to the rocks at the seaside? You are not alone. Charles Darwin spent eight years studying barnacles, and the Museum of Zoology holds around 300 microscope slides he made in this time.
Explore these amazing animals, how they live and what they are related to with family-friendly activities at the Museum.
https://www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/darwins-barnacles-family-activity
