Explore Wisbech and Fenland Museum's summer exhibition, Ancient Egypt, and enjoy a range of hands-on activities and crafts at this drop-in Family Open Day.
Make your own amulets, learn about mummification, and have a go at weaving.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Meet Dr Alex Liu and Professor Dave Norman from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Find out what it's like working as a palaeontologist, and get hands-on with fun activities relating to their research. Alex uses fossils and rocks to explore the very earliest animals on Earth, and Dave investigates dinosaurs, including Iguanodon, whose skeleton you'll meet as you enter the Museum. Perhaps you'll be inspired to become a palaeontologist too!
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!
We just love reptiles! Join us on World Lizard Day as we celebrate reptiles with family craft activities and lots of reptile skulls to handle, including lizard and crocodile skulls! Plus seek out all the reptiles we have on display in the Museum.
Activities will all take place in the Discovery Room in the Lower Gallery of the Museum. Suitable for all age groups.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
What makes something 'special' or 'lucky'? During this session, we will be unboxing amulets and charms and exploring how these protective, healing, and often luck-bringing objects can tell stories about how people navigate uncertainty and express hopes for the future. Make your own amulet during a relaxed craft and creative writing session inspired by the objects.
Join us for an afternoon of store tours, objects-in-focus and relaxed activities!
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.
Come for a twilight ramble through the Botanic Garden and learn about the fascinating world of bats. There will be a chance to use our bat detectors, find out about what bats eat, where they live and have your questions answered.
Suitable for adults and accompanied children aged 8+. This event is weather dependent. Bookings will open soon.
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.
