Kaitlin will take you through the steps of making your zine and help out with creative tips.

Join us at the Museum to make a wildflower, nursery rhyme blackbirds baked in a pie and a paper bittern. There will be loads of other things happening on the day - just visit our website for further updates. 

Join us at the Museum to make your own treasure chest, gold torque and design a coin. 

Pre-order your craft pack which contains everything you need to complete the activities, plus a Museum trail and instruction booklet. Then collect your pack from the Museum on the Wednesday and we will help you with the crafts in your pack and supply basic materials and equipment.

Join Geologise Theatre as they take you on a musical journey back in time to meet Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter Extraordinaire. Learn about dinosaurs and other ancient creatures through their songs, including a sing-off between a dinosaur and a mammal, and a ballad about their favourite fossil. Fossil fun for all the family.

Geologise Theatre will be performing throughout the day.

Drop in event.

Come along to the Sedgwick Museum and make your very own Mary Anning inspired paper ichthyosaur and pterosaur skeletons. While you are here have a look for three ichthyosaurs found by Mary that are on display in the museum.

Did you know that as well as finding ichthyosaurs, Mary found the first pterosaur fossils found in Britain.

Drop in event.

Come along to the Sedgwick Museum and make your very own Mary Anning inspired ammonite sun catcher. Don't forget to look for the fossil skeleton of an Ichthyosaur found by Mary next to the scale model of the statue that was recently unveiled in her hometown of Lyme Regis. 

Drop in event

children colouring

Join us at the Museum to make a peg clam, yogurt pot jellyfish, and Winstanley’s lighthouse.

Pre-order your craft pack which contains everything you need to complete the activities, plus a Museum trail and instruction booklet. Then collect your pack from the Museum on the Wednesday and we will help you with the crafts in your pack and supply basic materials and equipment.

Did you know that before it was a Museum, the Cambridge Museum of Technology was where the rubbish of Cambridge ended up. Fun fact!

Bring that idea right up to date and turn old egg boxes into works of art. The workshop will be led by local graphic artist and museum volunteer Suzanne Morris.

 

Arthropleura is an extinct millipede-like animal that lived about 346-295 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period. It is the largest known land invertebrate to ever live, and the fossil on display in the Museum, is the largest ever found.

Come along to our free drop-in event and take part in millipede-themed craft activity to celebrate our new giant millipede fossil exhibit. Creepy crawly fun for all the family.

Arthropleura is an extinct millipede-like animal that lived about 346-295 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period. It is the largest known land invertebrate to ever live, and the fossil on display in the Museum, is the largest ever found.

Come along to our free drop-in event and take part in millipede-themed craft activity to celebrate our new giant millipede fossil exhibit. Creepy crawly fun for all the family.

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