Enjoy storytelling sessions throughout the day with the wonderful Marion Leeper, get creative with river-inspired crafts, follow exciting trails, and help build a giant junk-modelled Ouse Monster in the museum garden.
Collect your free activity passport and earn a stamp from each venue to earn a prize!
Take to the water with special river trips offered by the St Ives Electric Boat Company, departing from The Waits. These boat rides will be available at a reduced cost for the day – tickets will be on sale from The Norris Museum.
Immerse yourself in the world of Mary Anning: explore real fossils and use these to make your own clay ammonite to take home. Dress up as Mary Anning and her brother Joseph and hear ‘first-hand’ about her life. Find out about her experience as a working-class, woman scientist in the 1800s, and discover how her fossils arrived in our collection.
Dive deeper into the history of Mary Anning by exploring her letters, drawings and other materials in our archives.
Mary Anning will be staying with us until 4.30pm, along with the dress-up activity.
Crafting the Past - A Summer of Making
Join us at the Polar Museum for the chance to dive deeper into the art of map making and navigation! Get a closer look at the stunning paintings of the Arctic and Antarctic on our ceiling domes and fill in your own versions to take away. While you're here, you'll have the chance to speak to experts about some of the equipment explorers would use to navigate safely in the polar regions and use a special trail to find the objects in the museum. We'll even have a few objects from our handling collection out so you can get a closer look for yourselves!
Using tie dye techniques and dyes, create a unique tote bag to take home.
Booking Essential. (The tie dye sessions are very popular so please don't leave it too late to book.)
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Step into the Play Pavilion, an imagination playground for families inspired by nature in art and bursting with creative possibilities. Explore, invent, and play together - let your imagination run wild all summer long, rain or shine!
Where: Front lawn at the Fitzwilliam Museum
When: Drop in anytime between 12pm and 3pm, Tuesday - Sunday, no booking needed from 5 to 31 August 2025.
What better way to celebrate summer than by making a crown of flowers? We will be using all kinds of leaves, flowers and grasses to create amazing botanical crowns that you can wear all day long while you explore the Botanic Garden. Drop-in to join in the fun. All ages welcome, no need to pre-book. Find us in the Garden Room at the Schools Garden.
Normal Garden admission applies for accompanying adults.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Enjoy exploring some of the Museum's beautiful paintings and sculptures.
Spaces will be limited to ensure the museums does not feel too overwhelming. Sounds will be turned off and the lighting controlled as much as possible.
Discover two million years of human history, one million artefacts and countless astonishing stories.
Spaces will be limited to ensure the museums does not feel too overwhelming. Sounds will be turned off and the lighting controlled as much as possible.
