Get creative using a range of techniques and media, contribute to our community mural and make a collage to take home.

Get crafty with local artist, Penny Sobr to design and decorate a baseball cap or tote bag.

Join artist Nichola Eddery for a fun creative printing workshop inspired by artwork by George Stubbs. Part of the National Horseracing Museum’s year-long celebration of Stubb’s 300th Anniversary.

Reprezent return to NHRM! Join street artist Kev Parker from Reprezent and create art using stencils and spray paints.

Join artist Penny Sobr and make a magical horse inspired mask to take home.

Drop-in and join artist Heather McDonough to find out about the art of cyanotype and create amazing equine and nature inspired sun prints to take home.

At the Disability Friendly Opening, the museum will be open exclusively for families with children with sensory sensitivities. This event is aimed at children with special educational needs who usually find visiting museums overwhelming due to conditions that affect their sensory processing and/or have a developmental disability.

Follow the Grand Safari Trail as it takes you around 15 magnificent brick sculptures in the Grand Arcade - then see the real animal skeletons in the Museum of Zoology! You'll see the label trail when you enter the Museum. 

Join the Museum of Zoology at two pop up events in the Grand Arcade. We'll be outside the entrance to John Lewis with crafts, specimens and more - Thursday 15 August and Tuesday 20 August, 11am to 1pm. We will have crafts and specimen handling, plus a competition. Do pop in and see us!

Join us as we look under the microscope at some aquatic wildlife, plus help us to make a HUGE zoology themed paper chain! We'll have our specimen handling table out too, so come along and have a chat with our expert volunteers whilst handling some real animal specimens. 

All activities and Museum entry FREE.