Today is the day the teddy bears have their picnic!
Bring your favourite teddy down to the Museum for games and some surprises. Join in with imaginative play teddy bears’ picnic in the galleries, listen to a story and have a game of hide and seek with the mischievous bears. How many can you find?
Have the chance to take home a wonderful museum teddy bear by entering the competition.
Why not bring your own picnic to enjoy in the Fenland courtyard and make the most of the courtyard games?
Drop in and meet our Museum scientists for help identifying your fossils and rocks, perhaps found over the summer holidays. Learn how to find fossils in everyday gravel, and get hands-on with some of our amazing fossils and rocks.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Meet Dr Alex Liu and Professor Dave Norman from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Find out what it's like working as a palaeontologist, and get hands-on with fun activities relating to their research. Alex uses fossils and rocks to explore the very earliest animals on Earth, and Dave investigates dinosaurs, including Iguanodon, whose skeleton you'll meet as you enter the Museum. Perhaps you'll be inspired to become a palaeontologist too!
Immerse yourself in the world of Mary Anning: explore real fossils and use these to make your own clay ammonite to take home. Dress up as Mary Anning and her brother Joseph and hear ‘first-hand’ about her life. Find out about her experience as a working-class, woman scientist in the 1800s, and discover how her fossils arrived in our collection.
Dive deeper into the history of Mary Anning by exploring her letters, drawings and other materials in our archives.
Mary Anning will be staying with us until 4.30pm, along with the dress-up activity.
Immerse yourself in the world of Mary Anning: explore real fossils and use these to make your own clay ammonite to take home. Dress up as Mary Anning and her brother Joseph and hear ‘first-hand’ about her life. Find out about her experience as a working-class, woman scientist in the 1800s, and discover how her fossils arrived in our collection.
Dive deeper into the history of Mary Anning by exploring her letters, drawings and other materials in our archives.
Mary Anning will be staying with us until 4.30pm, along with the dress-up activity.
Free, drop-in.
Pop in to the Polar Museum for a morning of crafts and activities all based around the world's coldest places. We'll have objects from our handling collection out and a story in the Lecture Theatre. Drop in between 10am and 1pm - no need to book. We look forward to seeing you!
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Pop in to the Polar Museum for an afternoon of crafts and activities all based around the world's coldest places. We'll have objects from our handling collection out and a story in the Lecture Theatre. Drop in between 10am and 1pm - no need to book. We look forward to seeing you!
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Pop in to the Polar Museum for a morning of crafts and activities all based around the world's coldest places. We'll have objects from our handling collection out and a story in the Lecture Theatre. Drop in between 10am and 1pm - no need to book. We look forward to seeing you!
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Mr Whipple really loved optics, instruments which use light to help scientists to see things. That means that the Whipple museum is packed with microscopes, telescopes and even spectacles and opera glasses! Come and explore some of our handling instruments, find out how to bend and reflect light and create your own spectacular spectacles.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Mr Whipple really loved optics, instruments which use light to help scientists to see things. That means that the Whipple museum is packed with microscopes, telescopes and even spectacles and opera glasses! Come and explore some of our handling instruments, find out how to bend and reflect light and create your own spectacular spectacles.
Drop in session.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
