14/08/2024
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Free
Event information
Time
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Price
Free

Wisbech & Fenland Museum, Museum Square, Wisbech PE13 1ES

Wednesday 14 August, 11am to 3pm

Explore the Wisbech and Fenland Museum's latest exhibition, Beasts: Epic creatures real and imagined, and discover some of the strange and curious creatures that lurk within the Museum's eclectic collections.

With free crafts and activities, as well as the opportunity to meet Inferno, the smoke-breathing dragon, this is a day not to be missed.

Admission to the Museum will be free during this event.

Included Events

retro game with caption "Space Scuffle"
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Workshop participant: £20; Accompanying adult: £12

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

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Patterned grey clay.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Child: £5 | Adults: Free

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

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Illustration of a Solar System showing the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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. 

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A child holding some pieces of gravel
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free

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.

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A graphic showing colourful bunting against a blue sky and text reading NHRM A Creative Summer at the National Horseracing Museum!
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Free

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

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Up in arms. 29 Aug, 2-4pm.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Free

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

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A clay bowl with mosaic star and moon pattern.
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
One child: £12 | Two children: £22 | Three children: £30

Mosaic Workshops with a professional artist

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Wooden toys with text saying "Toys from the Past Week at The Farmland Museum"
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Free (normal museum admission prices apply)

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

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Flying Pipistrelle bat in natural forest background
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
£7

Join us on a rare twilight ramble through the Garden

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A graphic showing colourful bunting against a blue sky and text reading NHRM A Creative Summer at the National Horseracing Museum!
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Free

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

Find out more >
Patterned grey clay.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Child: £5 | Adults: Free

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

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blue poster with paper airplanes with text "take to the skies, Friday 30th August 10:30 - 15:00"
10:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Included with usual admission price

Explore different ways to create paper planes and gliders. 
 

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Green poster with text "Museum of Cambridge, Summer Holidays 2024, Season of Wellbeing, Crafts, Workshops and Trails for the whole family"
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Free

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.

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navy blue poster with text "Summer Sundays at Ely Museum" "Object handling 12pm-1pm" "Storytime 2pm-2.30pm"
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Free (normal museum admission prices apply)
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