27/08/2022
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Free
Event information
Time
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Price
Free
What
Family events
Where
The Polar Museum
Who
5+

Explore the museum this summer with your family and friends. Try out our pop-up activity station bursting with different activities, games and books to discover.

Included Events

Cultured Canines: Evolution, Emotion, Imitation. An exhibition by Allison Ksiazkiewicz. 22 July - 18 Oct.
Cultured Canines: Evolution, Emotion, Imitation
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Free

An exhibition by Allison Ksiazkewicz

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White butterfly on purple lavender
Lavender art
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Free

Come along to this family drop in event, learn about the lavender family and make a calming card using lavender

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An actress playing the palaeontologist Mary Anning. She is wearing a shawl and the red ribbon of her bonnet is visible, her face is not in the picture. She is holding a basket and an ammonite.
Summer of Earth Sciences: Drop In and Rock Out
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free

Back by popular demand - join us as we celebrate the ground-breaking palaeontologist, Mary Anning. Hear about her revolutionary fossil discoveries, by 'meeting' her in person.  Observe fossil ammonite features and make your own clay ammonite to take home.

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Hands holding seeds above a table with herbs on.
Herbs and Salads
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free

Come along to this family drop in event and plant herb and salad seeds to take home

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Models and fossil casts of Earth's earliest animals are placed on a table, trilobites and anomalocaris are discernible. An upturned hand is holding a white model of a trilobite, as if for someone else to look at it.
Summer of Earth Sciences: Drop In and Rock Out
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free

Drop in and meet palaeontologists who investigate dinosaurs and the earliest animals on Earth.

 

 

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An actress playing the palaeontologist Mary Anning. She is wearing a shawl and the red ribbon of her bonnet is visible, her face is not in the picture. She is holding a basket and an ammonite fossil.
Summer of Earth Sciences: Drop In and Rock Out
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free

Back by popular demand - join us as we celebrate the ground-breaking palaeontologist, Mary Anning. Hear about her revolutionary fossil discoveries, by 'meeting' her in person.  Observe fossil ammonite features and make your own clay ammonite to take home.
 

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Young girl wearing a flower crown and smiling at her mum.
Flower Crowns
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free

Come along to this family drop in event and make a beautiful crown made of flowers and leaves from the Garden

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A child's hands are held above a floor of gravel, holding a few pieces of gravel.
Summer of Earth Sciences: Drop In and Rock Out
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free

Have you found a rock or fossil that you'd like identified? Drop in and meet our Museum scientists for help, and get hands-on with our amazing rocks and fossils.

 

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