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.
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.
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.
Calling all 2-5 year olds! Join us for expert-led stories and play in the Museum.
There are two sessions to choose from starting at 10.30 and repeated at 11.30.
FREE. Please book ahead!
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
We just love reptiles! Join us on World Lizard Day as we celebrate reptiles with family craft activities and lots of reptile skulls to handle, including lizard and crocodile skulls! Plus seek out all the reptiles we have on display in the Museum.
Activities will all take place in the Discovery Room in the Lower Gallery of the Museum. Suitable for all age groups.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Get ready to dive into a world of patterns and prints with this fun summer workshop, where children can make their own plant stamps using funky foam.
This creative activity lets kids explore the shapes and textures of leaves, flowers, and other plant parts by designing and cutting their own unique stamps.
Using colourful, funky foam sheets, children will create fun, bold plant-inspired shapes which they can then dip into paint and print onto paper, creating beautiful, nature-inspired artworks.
Step back in time and discover the beauty of historical egg collections with this engaging summer workshop inspired by the temporary exhibition, 'Wonders: 190 years of Saffron Walden Museum'.
Children will have the exciting opportunity to paint their own 3D paper eggs, replicating the exquisite eggs found in collections of the past.
Ages 3+. Younger children welcome but will need much more help from their grown-up.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Drop-in runs 10am-12pm.
All welcome, especially suitable for families with babies and young children.
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!
Space to park prams is available at the Courtyard Entrance.
