Learn about some fascinating fossils that are over 600million years old and find out how these extinct Ediacaran creatures lived. Be a palaeontologist for the morning and cast your very own plaster copy of these mysterious creatures.
Limited space and availability – please be patient
Please note this activity takes place outside the museum.
Ages 5+
Free, drop in
Discover animals without legs with stories and play and make your own worm to take home with you.
Pre-book: www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events
Summer at the Museums
This event is part of Summer at the Museums, a mix of hands-on activities, events and trails, for families to enjoy throughout the summer holidays.
Visit the museum for an afternoon of coral-themes activities. Learn about these amazing animals, the habitats they create and the threats they face with hands-on activities and crafts. Visit the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on the same day to learn about people from the Pacific Islands of Kiribati and how they rely on corals.
Be inspired by the Museum's temporary exhibition and create mammal skeletons to take home with you.
Summer at the Museums
This event is part of Summer at the Museums, a mix of hands-on activities, events and trails, for families to enjoy throughout the summer holidays.
Discover animals without legs with stories and play, and make your own worm to take home with you.
Pre-book www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events
Climates are changing and storms are brewing. Scientists and explorers have long concocted methods to manage extreme weather. But, what about the future? Join in with games and crafts.- visit the museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for more.
Ages 5+
Free, drop in
Summer at the Museums
This event is part of Summer at the Museums, a mix of hands-on activities, events and trails, for families to enjoy throughout the summer holidays.
A scientist's work isn't always in the laboratory! Pack your case and join an expedition around the world with games and crafts to help you exchange knowledge, observe, and experiment.
Ages 3+
Free, drop in
Summer at the Museums
This event is part of Summer at the Museums, a mix of hands-on activities, events and trails, for families to enjoy throughout the summer holidays.
Navigate treacherous seas, play the Tools of the Trade, handle seafaring objects and make your own to take home.
Ages 3+
Free, drop in
Summer at the Museums
This event is part of Summer at the Museums, a mix of hands-on activities, events and trails, for families to enjoy throughout the summer holidays.
Come and see LIVE animals, including reptiles, birds of prey and insects. This is your chance to see live burying beetles - find out how they look after their young and what they eat - it's absolutely fascinating and perhaps not what you would expect. Come and talk to our lovely PhD research students, who will tell you everything they know.
Plus... you can look at our amazing skeletons which include a whale, dodo, two elephants, giraffe, giant ground sloth as well as a giant wasp nest, beetles, butterflies, birds, fish, corals and much much more.
