Chill Out at the Polar Museum

An exhibition by Allison Ksiazkewicz

Free archaeology themed children's crafts and archaeological activities - including a mock archaeology dig at the Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey.

Join the Botanic Garden this school holiday to find out more about herbs.

Join the Botanic Garden this school holiday to discover some of our carnivorous plants.

Re-assemble Roman pottery and create your own mosaic design to explore what life may have been like for some of the first settlers on the site of Denny Abbey and Farmland Museum.

Have you ever wanted to be a knight? Complete the tasks and activities to earn your title at Ely Museum.

Join the Botanic Garden this school holiday to create prints using leaves and petals.

We are excited to be running Arts Award Discover SEND across TWO fun and creative sessions at the Norris Museum! 

Take part in free medieval themed activities - including free crafts! All at the Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey.

Have you got what it takes to be a Tudor? Make Tudor tiles like those uncovered in the Refectory and have a go at some Tudor themed crafts at the Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey.

Join the Botanic Garden this school holiday to create craft inspired by insects.

Make your very own jousting knight and challenge your friends at Ely Museum.

Join us at the Polar Museum as we read some of our favourite children's books about the polar regions

Become an archaeologist at the Cromwell Museum. 

Join the Raptor Foundation at Ely Museum to learn more about their magnificent birds.

Use clay to make a textured name sign or tile at St Neots Museum.

Drop in to chill out at the Polar Museum with family-friendly crafts and activities

Meet Earth scientists Jeannie Booth, Mengyao Du and Simon Crowhurst and investigate tiny, beautiful 5000-year-old fossils using powerful microscopes at the Sedgwick Museum.

We are excited to be running Arts Award Discover SEND across TWO fun and creative sessions at the Norris Museum! 

Create your own horsey mosaic coasters and colourful equine art at the National Horseracing Museum.

Step back in time to explore the lives of the Victorians. Experience Victorian washday using a dolly tub and mangle and create Victorian inspired crafts at the Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey.

Calling all budding musicians! Shake up your music practice sessions with a digital metronome that you built yourself at the Centre for Computing History.

Get creative at this hands-on family art event inspired by the Museum of Classical Archaeology's collection.

Join the Botanic Garden this school holiday to create impressions of leaves and petals in clay.

Meet the mind behind the Centre for Computing History's biggest exhibit! James Newman, builder of the Megaprocessor, is coming to the Centre to answer questions about his remarkable creation.

Develop your mosaic skills at The Norris Museum, with professional mosaic artist, Zena Brackenbury, by learning how to create more intricate designs for a clay bowl, made by you during the session.

Use clay to make a textured name sign or tile at St Neots Museum.

Why do scientists build models? How can a model help us understand something too big, too small, or too complex to see?

Step into the past this Summer with Museum of Cambridge.

Why do scientists build models? How can a model help us understand something too big, too small, or too complex to see?

Join us at the Polar Museum as we read some of our favourite children's books about the polar regions

The three little pigs are moving to St Ives! Fun at The Norris Museum.

Help Bee-Bot plan a trip to the beach at the Centre for Computing History.

Get experimental with paint to make one-off paintings at St Neots Museum.

Join us for Arts Award Discover in a Day workshop at the Norris Museum.

Create your own scene in a shoe box at Saffron Walden Museum. Choose from Stone age, British wildlife, or Land of the Dinosaurs.

Get up close with the ancient world at Hands On with the Romans.

Join the Botanic Garden this school holiday to create a summer wand.

Drop in to chill out at the Polar Museum with family-friendly crafts and activities

Have you found a rock or fossil that you’d like identified? Perhaps found over the summer holidays? Drop in and meet our Museum scientists for help.

Discover what was school like in the 17th century with the Cromwell Museum.

Have a go at playing with toys and games from different historical time periods at the Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey.

Learn how to code the ‘broken’ Internet T-Rex game using Scratch at the Centre for Computing History.

Join us for a day of Family Fun at the Museum of Zoology.

Get experimental with paint to make one-off paintings at St Neots Museum.

Experience printing in different ways.  Explore cyanotype or sun printing (weather dependent) and printing by hand at this free drop-in, included in museum entry at Cambridge Museum of Technology.

Step into the past this Summer with Museum of Cambridge.