Meet Museum scientists and work with them to identify rocks and minerals using our powerful microscopes. The samples are very thin slices of rock, revealing beautifully coloured minerals.
Meet Jeannie Booth and Simon Crowhurst, part of a team that investigates the oceans and atmosphere thousands of years ago, by studying tiny, microscopic fossils. Search for these microfossils using powerful microscopes, learn how they can tell us about past climates, and take your own microfossil finds home.
Meet Peter Methley, a research student in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Peter researches how 800 million-year-old rocks could have formed from carbon dioxide dissolved in the ocean.
Get hands-on with some scientific testing. Find out what happens to when you bubble carbon dioxide through it, make some calcium carbonate in a test tube, and see the effect of carbon dioxide on shelled animals in the sea.
Drop-in and meet Megan Malpas, a University of Cambridge student researcher who investigates the atmosphere in the Arctic – one of the coldest places in the world. Explore how clouds form up in the atmosphere, make your own cloud down here on the ground, and find out what it's like to be researcher who works in the Arctic.
Meet Dr Elsa Amsellem who researches how planets form, at Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Can you sort out Earth rocks from meteorites and complete a challenge set by Elsa? Find out from Elsa what it's like to work as a scientist who studies planets.
Join artist Ali Atkins and create a 3D portrait from modelling clay.
Join us for a fun creative session, where you can design and make your own tiny chefs puppets and food inspired artwork.
Join us for a make and create session with Suffolk Archives, inspired by the photographs taken by Walton Burrell held in Suffolk Archives.
Be inspired by horses in the Rothschild Yard and around the Museum, by joining artist Nichola Eddery and contribute to our race day inspired community art piece.
Pasta making workshop with Sally Bycroft of La Cucina Italia (pre-booking only) and drop-in Kawaii style food inspired cartoon workshop.
**Please note that this will be a paid workshop.**
