Twilight at the Museums: Battle of the Twilight Beasts
Visit the Museum after hours and help decide who wins the Battle of the Twilight Beasts. Uncover the secret senses and amazing adaptations of creatures that live in low light conditions, and vote for your favourite. Take our twilight trail around the Museum, handle real zoological specimens, and see our skeletons in a new, more colourful light.
The Fitzwilliam Museum invites you to experience our collection and galleries under a different light...
Come to get hands on with free, activities in the galleries. Enjoy live mime performances that will bring the artworks to life. Get cosy and read your favourite stories together, or pick up a self -led activity at the entrance that will take you to explore the museum.
All activities are free, simply turn up. Activities in the galleries have limited capacity.
Learn how to code the micro:bit to become a wake-up alarm using its light-sensing feature. All coding is done online using Blocks on the Makecode page, and the results seen on Makecode's online simulator.
The early morning is one of the best times to spot wildlife. Join the team from the Museum of Zoology as they listen out for birdsong and spot local wildlife in Cambridge as the sun rises.
Why not wrap up warm and open a window or head out into your garden – what can you see and hear?
Take a peek behind the Sedgwick Museum's doors when it has closed for the evening. See strange goings on - captured on film for the first time ever. A ghostly Twilight treat!
Climate Change is big. Really big, and sometimes it can seem overwhelming to understand all the complex terms, let alone how we feel about it.
The Polar Museum is about to break it down for you and you’ll even get to sing too!
The base of the James Webb Telescope is roughly the size of a tennis court and scientists have had to figure out a way to blast it
up into space. How? Find out with this clever model.
At night, when the Museum is closed, some special visitors arrive and the only way of knowing they have been because of the footprints they leave.
See if you can guess each animal by it's shadow and match it with its footprint.
Join artist Kaitlin Ferguson as she looks at a Bronze age beaker from the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Learn how to use model magic and foam shapes to create your own designs.
Find out more about how Bronze Age items were made in this short film
