Polar Stories

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

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

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

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! 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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. 

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Fancy yourself a bit of a racer? Got the drift boost down to a fine art? Not scared of a little snaking? Then come test your mettle on Mario Kart 8 on the WiiU at the Centre for Computing History.

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

Step into the world of doctors, microscopes, and curious medical inventions.

Join us for a relaxed Studio Sunday session aimed at children and families with additional sensory needs.

Join our free, artist-led Studio Sunday workshops for families and unlock your creativity.

Step into the past this Summer with Museum of Cambridge.

Step into the world of doctors, microscopes, and curious medical inventions.

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

Enjoy an afternoon of art activities linked to beautiful stained glass art at the Stained Glass Museum.

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

Make your very own jousting knight and challenge your friends at Ely Museum.