This will be a creative session, with inspiration taken from picture books, poetry, and cultural and scientific ideas of creation with a focus on light and darkness. There will be a chance to celebrate your favourite things about light and darkness, the animals and plants that thrive in both conditions, and to learn how different cultures view them. Maybe you’d like to create an art piece about the Big Bang, or help to create a banner that celebrates our world and everything in it? We will have paints, pastels, paper, and more materials for you to explore your creativity with.
Some minibeasts have moved into the museum for the summer. Can you find them all? Discover fun facts about nature on this family trail around Ely Museum.
Included in your usual admission ticket or annual pass.
Opening hours
Tuesday to Saturday 10:30am - 5:00pm
Sunday 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Bank Holidays 10:30am - 5:00pm
Closed Mondays (except Bank Holidays)
Admissions
Adult £6.50
Child £2.50
Under 5s Free
Family £15.00
Art Pass & MA Members Free
The Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey are running a different theme each week of the Summer Holidays. This final week is Toys from the Past Week where visitors are invited to play with toys and games from the distant and recent past.
Toy themed craft activities will also be running throughout the day including making a shadow puppet to use in the shadow puppet theatre. All activities are free, but donations to the museum are welcome to cover the cost of materials.
The summer holiday activities are running on Thursday and Friday. The museum is open 10-4.
The Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey are running a different theme each week of the Summer Holidays. This week is Roman Week where visitors are invited to have a go at making Roman mosaics and re-assembling pottery.
Roman themed craft activities will also be running throughout the day including the opportunity to make your own Roman laurel wreath headdress to help you feel the part. All activities are free, but donations to the museum are appreciated to cover the cost of materials.
The Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey are running a different theme each week of the Summer Holidays. This week is Medieval Week where visitors can train with the Knights at Knight club and learn how to fight with a sword!
Knight Club will be running once per hour with the last session at 3pm at an additional cost of £4.50, payable on the day. The sessions are for anyone over the age of six… with no upper age limit!
The Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey are running a different theme each week of the Summer Holidays. This week is Tudor Week and visitors are invited to have a go at making Tudor tiles, dance and play like the Tudors.
Tudor Tile making will be delivered in two sessions, one at 11am and one at 2pm. There will be a small additional charge of £5 for the tile-making session, payable on the day.
Crafts include the opportunity to make your own Tudor ruff to help to look the part!
The Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey are running a different theme each week of the Summer Holidays. This week is Victorian week which allows visitors to have a go at an authentic Victorian wash-day and learn the skill of rag-rugging.
Wash-day demonstrations will be at 11.30am, 1pm and 2.30pm and are free to take part, so come along and try your hand!
The Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey are running a different theme each week of the Summer Holidays. The first of these is Archaeology Week, where visitors are invited to try their hand at being a mini archaeologist.
There will be an archaeological dig site set up for children to uncover treasures as well as craft activities themed around archaeology - including the opportunity to make your own fossil impressions from clay.
Craft activities are free, but donations to the museum are appreciated to cover the cost of materials.
Great St. Mary's church is full of animals, most of them carved on the end of their 19th century wooden pews. This is a chance to take a close look at those animals – real and imaginary – through first finding them on a treasure hunt. You can then learn more about them, and create your own. They will have a variety of art materials that you can create with, or maybe you’d like to explore through words and write a story or poem? You might even spot some animals in their stained glass windows.
This summer is the Season of Wellbeing at the Museum of Cambridge, and they’re making some noise to finish off a jam-packed summer of fun. Learn how to turn household rubbish into your very own musical instrument and join in a session of noise making mayhem. Take a tin can, decorate it however you want, then turn it into a drum which you will then use in a drumming circle like no other.
