Great St Mary's Family Activity Days: Tall Towers

An exhibition by Allison Ksiazkewicz

Free archaeology themed children's crafts and archaeological activities - including a mock archaeology dig at the Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey.

Join the Botanic Garden this school holiday to find out more about herbs.

Join the Botanic Garden this school holiday to discover some of our carnivorous plants.

Re-assemble Roman pottery and create your own mosaic design to explore what life may have been like for some of the first settlers on the site of Denny Abbey and Farmland Museum.

A chance to learn more about the life cycle of various insects and animals, and create art inspired by nature at Great St. Mary's Church.

Have you ever wanted to be a knight? Complete the tasks and activities to earn your title at Ely Museum.

Step into the past this Summer with Museum of Cambridge.

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.

Enjoy a relaxed morning at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, open exclusively to children with sensory sensitivities along with families, siblings and carers.

Learn how sound is made, travels and is heard.

Enjoy a drop-in morning of art activities linked to beautiful stained glass art at the Stained Glass Museum.

Get creative at the Fitzwilliam Museum's free, family-friendly outdoor sensory play experience.

Join the Botanic Garden this school holiday to create prints using leaves and petals.

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

Do you have what it takes to join the New Modelled Army and fight for Parliament at the Cromwell Museum?

Learn how to print your design on a t-shirt at the National Horseracing Museum.

Using tie-dye to decorate a bandana scarf at St Neots Museum.

Calling young music makers! Learn how to use Sonic Pi on the Raspberry Pi to create some amazing tunes at the Centre for Computing History.

Choose an exotic animal or garden bird to sit at the centre of your paper plate design at Saffron Walden Museum.

Drop in to the Sedgwick Museum for mountains of geological fun as we explore real fossil and rock specimens from our collection.

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

Free drop-in family activities at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 

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

Free drop-in family activities at the Centre for Material Culture.

Take part in free medieval themed activities - including free crafts! All at the Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey.

How steady are your nerves? Find out by building a game, including doing some soldering at the Centre for Computing History.

Using tie-dye to decorate a bandana scarf at St Neots Museum.

David Gilday shares his passion for Rubik's Cube puzzles and his LEGO MINDSTORMS robots that solve them at the Centre for Computing History.

Design and create marvellous mosaic hanging decorations and coasters, at The Norris Museum with professional mosaic artist, Zena Brackenbury, by pressing real glass tesserae into air drying clay.

Journey from our home planet to the furthest reaches of the Solar System!

Journey from our home planet to the furthest reaches of the Solar System!

Enjoy a relaxed morning at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, open exclusively to children with sensory sensitivities along with families, siblings and carers.

Step into the past this Summer with Museum of Cambridge.

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

Come and try something new at the Stained Glass Museum in Ely in this exciting children's glass fusing workshop for beginners over 7 years.

Family Fun Day at The Norris Museum, Holt Island, and the St Ives Methodist Church

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

Drop into the Sedgwick Museum to celebrate the ground-breaking palaeontologist, Mary Anning. 'Meet' Mary in person and hear about her revolutionary fossil discoveries, and have fun dressing up as Mary and her brother Joseph. 

Decorate a canvas bag with your own printed design at St Neots Museum.

Create your own prints on gelli plates at the National Horseracing Museum.

A fun, interactive children's story writing workshop at the Stained Glass Museum led by the inspirational local teenage author Hephzibah Akinwale.

Free drop-in family activities at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

How good are your observational skills? Put it to test with this digital memory chaser at the Cambridge Centre for Computing History.

Drop by the Cromwell Museum to discover what herbs and flowers were used in the 17th century, and plant a seed to take home with you.

Join the Botanic Garden this school holiday to create craft inspired by insects.

Whirl back in time at the Museum of Classical Archaeology to the world of ancient Greece.

Have you got what it takes to be a Tudor? Make Tudor tiles like those uncovered in the Refectory and have a go at some Tudor themed crafts at the Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey.