Have you found a fossil or interesting rock over the summer? Drop in with your finds and our Museum scientists can help you identify them.
You can also learn how to find fossils in everyday gravel, and get hands on with some of our amazing fossils and rocks.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2026.
Drop in to meet Earth scientists Jeannie Booth, Mengyao Du and Simon Crowhurst and explore amazing, tiny 5000-year-old fossils under powerful microscopes.
Discover what these microfossils can tell us about oceans and climates thousands of years ago. Compare the features of different microfossils and get stuck into making your own microfossil model out of clay, to take home.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2026.
Join us as we celebrate the pioneering 19th century palaeontologist, Mary Anning. Hear about her revolutionary fossil discoveries by ‘meeting’ Mary in person, and find out about her experience as a working-class woman scientist in the 1800s.
Investigate Mary's fossil finds with her, and find out how some of her most spectacular discoveries came to be in our Museum collection. Step back in time and have fun dressing up as Mary and her brother Joseph.
Explore real rock and fossil specimens from the Sedgwick Museum collection. Discover fossils of animals so ancient that they went extinct before dinosaurs even evolved, and investigate rocks that glow under UV light.
Chat with Museum staff about their favourite fossils and find out what it's like to work at the Sedgwick Museum.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2026.
Drop in to meet volcanologist Julian Pahl and explore beautiful lava minerals under powerful microscopes, handle real (cooled!) lava, and use syrup and fizzy drinks to learn how lava flows.
Chat with Julian about his expeditions to Hawaii and find out what it's like to investigate volcanoes as a job.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2026.
Drop in and meet Dr Rayssa Martins-Pimentel, a cosmochemist who studies the chemistry of meteorites to find out what planets are made of.
Handle real meteorites, have fun spotting the difference between space rocks and Earth rocks, and chat with Rayssa about her work.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2026.
Explore the Kettle’s Yard house and current exhibition Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today, discovering how different artists express themselves through their paintings. Join artist Damaris in the Clore Learning Studio and get expressive using charcoal mark-making and acrylic paints.
From giant protein structures to anatomical casts and maps, discover how models have helped scientists make sense of the world. Explore examples from biology, chemistry, and physics, and find out how scientific models have changed our understanding of nature, medicine, and the human body.
There will be a brief introduction to the session at the start of each hour.
Meet in the Learning Gallery. Drop-in, free.
From giant protein structures to anatomical casts and maps, discover how models have helped scientists make sense of the world. Explore examples from biology, chemistry, and physics, and find out how scientific models have changed our understanding of nature, medicine, and the human body.
There will be a brief introduction to the session at the start of each hour.
Meet in the Learning Gallery. Drop-in, free.
Explore how medicine has changed over time through objects from the museum's collections. Try out a much-hyped Victorian medical device, uncover how microscopes transformed our understanding of disease, and discover the breakthroughs that shaped modern healthcare.
There will be a brief introduction to the session at the start of each hour.
Meet in the Learning Gallery. Drop-in, free.
