The Whipple Museum is full of scientific models of different kinds. Use objects from our handling collection to explore a moving model of the solar system, find out how a chimpanzee can help you with your times tables and create your own molecular models (accurate or otherwise)! Use our anatomical models to find out where your bones and organs are and how some of them work.
Clare, our dinosaur who lives by the Museum steps, has travelled in time through our galleries, laying an egg in each of the display cases that she visited. Can you find them all and answer Clare's questions to win a prize?
Use our microscopes to discover a hidden world of beautiful, tiny fossils. Use them as inspiration to make a springtime decoration to display in the Museum, or take home.
Use our microscopes to discover a hidden world of beautiful, tiny fossils. Use them as inspiration to make a springtime decoration to display in the Museum, or take home.
Use our microscopes to discover a hidden world of beautiful, tiny fossils. Use them as inspiration to make a springtime decoration to display in the museum, or take home.
Join us at this school holiday drop-in activity where we will be having a go at decoupaging and making colourful, springtime Easter decorations to take home with you. All ages welcome, no need to pre-book. Find us in the Garden Room at the Schools Garden.
Standard Garden admission applies for accompanying adults.
Join us at this school holiday drop-in activity where we will be having a go at decoupaging and making colourful, springtime Easter decorations to take home with you. All ages welcome, no need to pre-book. Find us in the Garden Room at the Schools Garden.
Standard Garden admission applies for accompanying adults.
From mighty ostriches to tiny hummingbirds, discover brilliant birds in the Museum of Zoology. Listen to stories and birdsong, feel real feathers and more.
This event is suitable for ages 2-5. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Only children need tickets. Adults and children under 1 do not need a ticket to attend.
Roz, who will be leading the session, will meet you under the fin whale at the time on your ticket. The session lasts 45 minutes.
What do a giraffe, a frog, a shark and a robin have in common? They all have a skeleton. More than that, they all have a backbone: they're vertebrates. Visit the Museum of Zoology for a day of free hands-on activities inspired by skeletons. Explore our temporary exhibition 'Growing a Backbone: The Rise of the Vertebrates'. Follow our skeleton trail to take a closer look at the amazing animals on display. Handle real bones and see what they're made of. Play with puzzles and stories, and find out how skeletons grow. PLUS make your very own 'Book of Spines'
Free. No need to book.
Did you know that the Botanic Garden is home to some very weird and wonderful meat-eating plants? Come along to join us as we find out more about these weird plants, including what they eat, how they catch it and where they grow in the wild. At the session, you’ll be able to see the plants in action, watch videos, ask questions and have a go at making your own paper carnivorous plant to take home.
