Making Mischief with the micro:bit - SOLD OUT

Explore the museum this half-term with your family and friends. Try out our pop-up activity station bursting with different activities boxes, puzzles and books.

Try your hand at archaeology with a dig site at the museum. Archaeology related children’s crafts will be on offer and you can handle real fossils.
 

Join the Denny Abbey and Farmland Museum as they 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. 
 

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. 

Back by popular demand – Knight Club returns to The Farmland Museum. Learn how to battle like a Medieval Knight and make your own sword and shield from recycled materials.

Explore Ely Museum when it is closed to the public! Ely Museum is having a special summer opening just for children with sensory sensitivities along with their families.

Design your own journal to help reflect and improve your wellbeing. Use a variety of materials to make a unique cover, then take some time to fill your journal in.
 

We’re redesigning our Learning Gallery, and we need your help! Become a Whipple Museum curator for the afternoon and build your own museum. 

Come and explore the good sides of both light and darkness, as we think about the natural world and stories of creation. 

David Gilday shares his passion for Rubik's Cube puzzles and his LEGO MINDSTORMS robots that solve them.

A family craft activity as part of the Museum's super summer programme inspired by current temporary exhibition "Soggy Sandwiches: Tales of British Summer".

Discover the joys of wet felting and create a menacing, mighty, or mischievous monster mat, with professional artist, Ricki Outis. 

Come as a family and each create your own fused glass design and make your own stunning 10cm x 10cm glass piece for you to keep once it has been fired!

Join a free family drop-in workshop at the National Horseracing Museum.

Use printing techniques to create pattern posters.

Find out what an algorithm is and how they help us tell computers what to do! 

Drop-in, meet Museum scientists, and work with them to identify rocks and minerals using our powerful microscopes. 

Each Wednesday in August, join the Cromwell Museum to explore life was like in the 17th century with hands-on and family friendly activities. All activities free.

Explore the museum's amazing stained glass shields and create your own family crest. 

Be introduced to robot 'staff' member, JNFR (Jennifer!) and hear about the history of Robotics!

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.

This summer Ely Museum is going back to nature with some awesome crafts inspired by the natural world. The theme this week is Bees!

Explore food through the ages. 

Use printing techniques to create pattern posters.

Design your own journal to help reflect and improve your wellbeing. Use a variety of materials to make a unique cover, then take some time to fill your journal in.

During this special museum tour, in-house gaming experts will guide you through the history of video games from the seventies to the modern day.
 

Join a free family drop-in workshop at the National Horseracing Museum.

Build yourself a bug-shaped mini robot! This one's always looking for light and can't help crawling towards it! 

We’re redesigning our Learning Gallery, and we need your help! Become a Whipple Museum curator for the afternoon and build your own museum. 

Have you ever wanted to start coding with some fun applications? Join the Centre of Computing History for a great introduction into coding using a really simple interface and the versatile micro:bit.
 

Meet the mind behind the Centre of Computing History's biggest exhibit - the Megaprocessor!

Each Wednesday in August, join the Cromwell Museum to explore life was like in the 17th century with hands-on and family friendly activities. All activities free.

We’re redesigning our Learning Gallery, and we need your help! Become a Whipple Museum curator for the afternoon and build your own museum. 

Create a clay hand print and decorate with texture and patterns.

Join a free family drop-in workshop at the National Horseracing Museum.

Turn rubbish into music in the Museum of Cambridge's final Summer workshop. Learn how a tin can and a balloon can become an instrument before taking part in a drum circle.
 

Have you found a rock or fossil that you'd like identified? Drop-in to meet our Museum scientists for help, and get hands on with some amazing fossil and mineral specimens.

Create a fun space game using the programming language BBC Basic on a 30-year old BBC Micro. 

A family craft activity as part of the Museum's super summer programme inspired by current temporary exhibition "Soggy Sandwiches: Tales of British Summer".

Enjoy the Stained Glass Museum's fantastic temporary exhibition featuring the work of James Cockerill and produce your own unique string and paper print!

Shields up! Join us for a relaxed afternoon of arts and crafts.

Mosaic Workshops with a professional artist

Have a go at playing with toys and games from different historical time periods. Enact traditional Fen stories with the shadow puppet theatre.

Create a clay hand print and decorate with texture and patterns.

Join us on a rare twilight ramble through the Garden

Join a free family drop-in workshop at the National Horseracing Museum.