Creative Clay

Join the Raptor Foundation at Ely Museum to learn more about their magnificent birds.

Create your own horsey mosaic coasters and colourful equine art at the National Horseracing Museum.

We are excited to be running Arts Award Discover SEND across TWO fun and creative sessions at the Norris Museum! 

Meet Earth scientists Jeannie Booth, Mengyao Du and Simon Crowhurst and investigate tiny, beautiful 5000-year-old fossils using powerful microscopes at the Sedgwick Museum.

Drop in to chill out at the Polar Museum with family-friendly crafts and activities

Use clay to make a textured name sign or tile at St Neots Museum.

Become an archaeologist at the Cromwell Museum. 

Meet the mind behind the Centre for Computing History's biggest exhibit! James Newman, builder of the Megaprocessor, is coming to the Centre to answer questions about his remarkable creation.

Get creative at this hands-on family art event inspired by the Museum of Classical Archaeology's collection.

Calling all budding musicians! Shake up your music practice sessions with a digital metronome that you built yourself at the Centre for Computing History.

Step back in time to explore the lives of the Victorians. Experience Victorian washday using a dolly tub and mangle and create Victorian inspired crafts at the Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey.

Join the Botanic Garden this school holiday to create impressions of leaves and petals in clay.

Use clay to make a textured name sign or tile at St Neots Museum.

Develop your mosaic skills at The Norris Museum, with professional mosaic artist, Zena Brackenbury, by learning how to create more intricate designs for a clay bowl, made by you during the session.

Why do scientists build models? How can a model help us understand something too big, too small, or too complex to see?

Step into the past this Summer with Museum of Cambridge.

Why do scientists build models? How can a model help us understand something too big, too small, or too complex to see?

Join us at the Polar Museum as we read some of our favourite children's books about the polar regions

The three little pigs are moving to St Ives! Fun at The Norris Museum.

Have you found a rock or fossil that you’d like identified? Perhaps found over the summer holidays? Drop in and meet our Museum scientists for help.

Drop in to chill out at the Polar Museum with family-friendly crafts and activities

Discover what was school like in the 17th century with the Cromwell Museum.

Help Bee-Bot plan a trip to the beach at the Centre for Computing History.

Join the Botanic Garden this school holiday to create a summer wand.

Create your own scene in a shoe box at Saffron Walden Museum. Choose from Stone age, British wildlife, or Land of the Dinosaurs.

Get experimental with paint to make one-off paintings at St Neots Museum.

Join us for Arts Award Discover in a Day workshop at the Norris Museum.

Get up close with the ancient world at Hands On with the Romans.

Join us for a day of Family Fun at the Museum of Zoology.

Have a go at playing with toys and games from different historical time periods at the Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey.

Learn how to code the ‘broken’ Internet T-Rex game using Scratch at the Centre for Computing History.

Experience printing in different ways.  Explore cyanotype or sun printing (weather dependent) and printing by hand at this free drop-in, included in museum entry at Cambridge Museum of Technology.

Get experimental with paint to make one-off paintings at St Neots Museum.

Step into the past this Summer with Museum of Cambridge.

Impress the crowd with a colourful feather crown. Saffron Walden Museum have many beautiful hats and bird feathers on display, to help you draw inspiration.