With all this talk about machine learning, we thought we'd get our heads around it too!
Come and join the Centre for Computing History as they teach a micro:bit to recognise some basic gestures and use it on a museum trail.
Aimed at age 12+. Booking essential.
This event is part of Twilight at the Museums 2026.
Are you brave enough to descend into Hades, the Greek Underworld? It is easy enough to enter, but very few manage to leave... Fortunately for you, the Queen of the Underworld Persephone has offered you the chance to escape if you can gather her six golden pomegranate seeds.
For one night in half-term, join us with the lights down low and see our Cast Gallery in a new way. You will meet the gods, complete the challenges, and see if you can cross the river Styx to make your way back to the land of the living. Take a risk and make your journey.
The evening’s events at Great St Mary's Church will begin at 4.30pm with craft activities on the theme of how the natural world communicates. Sounds are important in the natural world (think of bird song, a lion’s roar, and the warning sound of thunder before lightning). Join in and make a variety of animals and learn more about the sounds animals make, and even how fungi communicate through vibrations.
Come along to the Botanic Garden after dark and join bioluminescence expert David Atthowe as he guides us around the Garden and Tropical House, looking at plants and animals and their beautiful bioluminescence.
Two walks will take place each evening, one from 6pm to 7.30pm and the other from 8pm to 9.30pm.
These will be limited to 15 per walk and are strictly for those aged eight and over.
This event is part of Twilight at the Museums 2026.
Come and make and decorate a little lantern in the Botanic Garden. Take it home with you and light up your home.
The event is free but must be booked in advance.
Suitable for ages four to 10.
This event is part of Twilight at the Museums 2026.
Find out about the history of machinery at Cambridge Museum of Technology through a Minecraft themed trail.
Find the items at each station, add them to your inventory, collect the letters and reveal the secret word.
Try your hand at crafting at the Museum's crafting tables. What will you create? A Redstone Lamp? A mine cart?
The trail will run all week. Twilight Crafting evenings on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 February 2026.
Join us for an evening at the Polar Museum all about our favourite stories and tales from Antarctica.
You'll start in the Lecture Theatre, where we'll dim the lights and you'll listen to the story of the Winter Journey, accompanied by images from our collection. We'll need your help with sound effects to really bring the story to life!
Join us for a night safari adventure, at our special after-hours opening for families. We'll turn our lights down very low, so bring a torch and search the museum for dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, some of whom roamed Cambridgeshire thousands of years ago.
Drop in to our hands-on activity stations: investigate fossils close up and explore beautiful minerals that glow in the dark under UV light.
The Museum of Cambridge is lighting up the past this February half term, with trails and crafts relating to the Magic Lantern.
Magic lanterns were an early type of image projector – the ancestor of film projectors used today – which were used for education and entertainment during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
Join us after hours as we explore the creatures of the deep. Follow a trail created by our Young Zoologists Club, find out about amazing marine animals, and see the galleries in a new, under-the-sea light.
The evening starts at 4.30pm with last entry at 7pm. Bring your torch!
Tickets are FREE but you will need to book, as this event is very popular. Click here to book your FREE tickets.
