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.
Join Great St Mary's for an evening of music and activities, as we are invited by one of Cambridge’s world class choirs to watch them rehearse for a service of Compline (night prayer).
Prior to the rehearsal, from 6pm you can explore how the cycle of the moon shapes the calendars of the three Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. See how the dates of Easter, Ramadan, and Hanukkah depend on the stage of the moon, and consider how people pray at different times of day and night.
Drop in for a day of family activities. Get moving with a Faraday motor, learn about LEDs, light refraction and dispersal and much more!
All half-term family activities are included in museum entry. Some may incur a one-off charge of £2.
As part of Twilight at the Museums, explore the Cambridge Museum of Technology's very own UV (ultra violet) light trail and follow the clues to pick up a prize.
Find out about the shadowy past of the Victorian Pumping Station, make your own shadow puppets to cast light on a murky history.
Discover how to generate your own electricity, build electrical circuits and create light, movement and sound.
Learn how to code the micro:bit to become a light-sensitive wake-up alarm at the Centre for Computing History. Put it under a lamp with a timer and you're all good to go!
We need an extra prod to wake up on cold, dark mornings! Making it digital and something you have programmed will be even more cool (at least you won't be irritated when it won't let you sleep in!).
This half term Cambridge Science Centre is looking at space!
Come along to see space suits, a rocket, the solar system and more.
Find out about the next big space mission with our brand new show 'Moonshot', join in our lab activities, a space treasure hunt and more!
Booking required.
Join Cambridge Science Centre during its Space Week and get hands-on with interactive exhibits.
Especially for Twilight at the Museums, explore the everyday and the inter-galactic in this fun-filled evening, from light you can see to light you can't.
Free. Booking required.
The Museum of Cambridge is delighted to once again be involved in Twilight at the Museums.
Join an evening of exploration and see the Museum in a new Light. Magic Lanterns - popular image projectors used for entertainment and education for 250 years - will guide you through a story of Cambridge's history in this one-of-a-kind event. The Museum will highlight some key objects from its collection relating to both the story and lights in the city.
The morning session, 10-11.30am, is suitable for children aged 18 months-5 years and their parents and carers.
Note: A family ticket is for up to 2 adults with up to 3 children.
Drop-in runs 10am-12pm
These free events build upon our ‘Family Welcome Project’, a participatory research project with the North Cambridge Child and Family Centre.
No need to book, just drop in
