This summer is the Season of Wellbeing at the Museum of Cambridge, and they're heading outdoors for a workshop all about natural dyeing. Learn about this ancient technique and see how colours come from plants. Then get hands-on, planting woad seeds, crushing leaves to extract their colour and dyeing your own bracelet to take home at the end of the day.
This workshop runs from 12-3pm on the 14 August 2024 at the Museum of Cambridge and is FREE to attend, but slots will book up fast. Secure your place via the link on our website (link to be released soon).
This summer is the Season of Wellbeing at the Museum of Cambridge, and they're heading outdoors for a workshop all about natural dyeing. Learn about this ancient technique and see how colours come from plants. Then get hands-on, planting woad seeds, crushing leaves to extract their colour and dyeing your own bracelet to take home at the end of the day.
This workshop runs from 12-3pm on the 14 August 2024 at the Museum of Cambridge and is FREE to attend, but slots will book up fast. Secure your place via the link on our website (link to be released soon).
Meet Museum scientists and work with them to identify rocks and minerals using our powerful microscopes. The samples are very thin slices of rock, revealing beautifully coloured minerals.
Meet Jeannie Booth and Simon Crowhurst, part of a team that investigates the oceans and atmosphere thousands of years ago, by studying tiny, microscopic fossils. Search for these microfossils using powerful microscopes, learn how they can tell us about past climates, and take your own microfossil finds home.
Meet Peter Methley, a research student in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Peter researches how 800 million-year-old rocks could have formed from carbon dioxide dissolved in the ocean.
Get hands-on with some scientific testing. Find out what happens to when you bubble carbon dioxide through it, make some calcium carbonate in a test tube, and see the effect of carbon dioxide on shelled animals in the sea.
Drop-in and meet Megan Malpas, a University of Cambridge student researcher who investigates the atmosphere in the Arctic – one of the coldest places in the world. Explore how clouds form up in the atmosphere, make your own cloud down here on the ground, and find out what it's like to be researcher who works in the Arctic.
Meet Dr Elsa Amsellem who researches how planets form, at Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Can you sort out Earth rocks from meteorites and complete a challenge set by Elsa? Find out from Elsa what it's like to work as a scientist who studies planets.
At the Disability Friendly Opening, the museum will be open exclusively for families with children with sensory sensitivities. This event is aimed at children with special educational needs who usually find visiting museums overwhelming due to conditions that affect their sensory processing and/or have a developmental disability.
We’re redesigning our Learning Gallery, and we need your help! Become a Whipple Museum curator for the afternoon and build your own museum.
