On your marks, get set, go! Join us for a jam-packed afternoon of activities and crafts fit for an Olympian.
Discover the ancient origins of everyone’s favourite summer sporting event, and get the low down on what it was like to compete over 2000 years ago. The Great Greek Olympic Games will get your mind racing as we test your knowledge of ancient sport and let your imagination run wild designing your very own Olympic games
So do you have what it takes to be a champion in the ancient Greek Olympics?
Rome wasn't built in a day, but how much can you build in two weeks?
This summer, we’re transforming the Cast Gallery into a Roman city, and we need your help. Drop into the Museum and make your mark on our ancient landscape by creating your own building. You can even come multiple times and watch how the city builds up over time.
How will you contribute to our growing city? Will you add a theatre? A temple? A sewer system? Or something else entirely? And what do your citizens need in order to thrive in your city? Ponder all that and more as you craft our cityscape.
There’s magic in the air this summer!
The ancient world was filled with mystical secrets, magic and curses. Discover these secrets for yourself over a magical afternoon at the Museum of Classical Archaeology. Just drop in and craft spells, create your own curse tablet and even try your hand at ancient fortune-telling.
Will you uncover lost spells from the past or learn the secret to seeing the future? (But be warned, not all prophesies have happy endings…)
This event is part of Summer at the Museums.
There’s magic in the air this summer!
The ancient world was filled with mystical secrets, prophesies and curses. Discover these secrets for yourself over a magical afternoon at the Museum of Classical Archaeology. Just drop in and craft spells, create your own curse tablet and even try your hand at ancient fortune-telling.
Will you uncover lost spells from the past or learn the secret to seeing the future? (But be warned, not all prophesies have happy endings…)
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.
