Ever wanted to build your very own moving monster? Then come on down to the Museum of Technology and try your hand at combining basic physics with a dash of creativity and build your own pneumatic monster!
Booking Essential.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
What do you get when you mix art and robots? An art bot! Try your hand at building simple circuits, designing and decorating your very own art-creating robot.
There are two workshops in one day: 10.30am - 12pm and 1 - 2.30pm.
Booking Essential.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Come and try your hands at different types of printing.
Use the sun to create a cyanotype print, try your hand at mono printing and use a real printing press to print a card.
Coinciding with an amazing exhibition by the talented print shop volunteers, pop in to the print shop to see the historic presses in action.
Drop in event. Free with usual museum entry.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
The Megaprocessor, a 10m-long and 2m high computer, takes pride of place in the foyer of The Centre for Computing History. This machine shows the inner workings of a microprocessor, the ubiquitous chip at the heart of billions of electronic devices. Microprocessors are so small that they're incredibly hard to understand, even though they are vitally important to modern society.
The Megaprocessor, a 10m-long and 2m high computer, takes pride of place in the foyer of The Centre for Computing History. This machine shows the inner workings of a microprocessor, the ubiquitous chip at the heart of billions of electronic devices. Microprocessors are so small that they're incredibly hard to understand, even though they are vitally important to modern society.
During the session you will the explore aspects of the cube that make it such a challenging and popular puzzle. He will share some insights that may help you to discover your own method to solve Rubik's Cube if you have not already mastered it.
In addition, you will see some of the robots, created by David, built from LEGO MINDSTORMS and Technic elements and smartphones that solve Rubik's Cubes of different sizes.
There is no additional charge for the activity but standard museum entry fees apply. Drop in.
During the session you will the explore aspects of the cube that make it such a challenging and popular puzzle. He will share some insights that may help you to discover your own method to solve Rubik's Cube if you have not already mastered it.
In addition, you will see some of the robots, created by David, built from LEGO MINDSTORMS and Technic elements and smartphones that solve Rubik's Cubes of different sizes.
There is no additional charge for the activity but standard museum entry fees apply. Drop in.
The Centre for Computing History has about 44,000 items in its collection. All are important to us, but some have extra special tales to tell.
In this workshop, you'll create a metal loop that you then have to guide around a wire maze without the two touching. If you they touch, a buzzer sounds and you have to start all over again!
No electronics experience is required although you will need a steady hand to assemble the components and use our tools.
This is a great workshop aimed at children aged 9 years and older.
Writing good code is a lot like making beautiful music - in this case, literally! Sonic Pi brings together two kinds of creativity by combining code writing with music composition. As the creator Sam Aaron says, '...(it is) the sound of code'!
This workshop is ideal for those aged 8 and older, ideal for those at upper KS2 and KS3 level.
