29/07/2025
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Free
Event information
Time
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Price
Free
What
Summer with the Museums,
Family events
Where
Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Whipple Museum, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RH

Who
12+,
5+,
Families,
Under 5s

Mr Whipple really loved optics, instruments which use light to help scientists to see things. That means that the Whipple museum is packed with microscopes, telescopes and even spectacles and opera glasses! Come and explore some of our handling instruments, find out how to bend and reflect light and create your own spectacular spectacles.

 

This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.

Included Events

Daily Crafting: Following the Pawprints. 24 July-29 Aug. Tues-Fri, 10am-5pm
Following the Pawprints
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Get crafty and explore the Museum from a dog's-eye view!

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Life in the Fens
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Crafts are included with standard admission.

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A cartoon of two children walking holding hands and wearing backpacks. One holds a map in front of them and the other drags along a teddy bear.
Gallery Trail Summer Sticker Book
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Free

Complete a trail at the Norris Museum each week to earn stickers for your sticker book.

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Farmland Museum logo and text "Denny Abbey and the Farmland Museum Life in the Fens" with clipart of countryside objects and animals around the outside.
Life in the Fens
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Crafts are included with standard admission.

Discover weekly family fun at the Farmland Museum with hands-on crafts celebrating Fenland life -from countryside creatures to mighty farm machines. 
 

Find out more >
Individuals seated on the grass, engaged in conversation and relaxation
Play Pavilion
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Free

Play Pavilion: free family fun in August, whatever the weather.

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Farmland Museum logo and text "Denny Abbey and the Farmland Museum Life in the Fens" with clipart of countryside objects and animals around the outside.
Life in the Fens
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Crafts are included with standard admission.

Discover weekly family fun at the Farmland Museum with hands-on crafts celebrating Fenland life -from countryside creatures to mighty farm machines. 

Find out more >
Farmland Museum logo and text "Denny Abbey and the Farmland Museum Life in the Fens" with clipart of countryside objects and animals around the outside.
Life in the Fens
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Crafts are included with standard admission.

Discover weekly family fun at the Farmland Museum with hands-on crafts celebrating Fenland life - from countryside creatures to mighty farm machines. 
 

Find out more >
Farmland Museum logo and text "Denny Abbey and the Farmland Museum Life in the Fens" with clipart of countryside objects and animals around the outside.
Life in the Fens
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Crafts are included with standard admission.

Discover weekly family fun at the Farmland Museum with hands-on crafts celebrating Fenland life - from countryside creatures to mighty farm machines. 

Find out more >