After growing up and feeling that she wasn't being seen in the books she read, Hephzibah was inspired to write her own novel 'Chronicles of the Timekeeper'. By the time she had finished writing the book when she was ten, Hephzibah won the title for the longest fiction novel written by a child author.
Get inspiration from the beautiful stained glass collection for your own story's characters and setting before Hephzibah shares her own fantastic story writing secrets with you, helping you plan for a fantastic story of your own.
During this fun, child-friendly session you will learn the principles and theory of glass cutting, fusing and firing. You will then work on your own design and make a 10cm x 10cm glass piece.
Your glass will need to be kiln-fired after the workshop is finished. This process takes 24 hours and will usually takes place within a week of the session. Once your fused artwork has been kiln-fired and cooled, the Museum will contact you to let you know it is ready for collection.
During this fun, child-friendly session you will learn the principles and theory of glass cutting, fusing and firing. You will then work on your own design and make a stunning 10cm x 10cm glass piece.
Your glass will need to be kiln-fired after the workshop is finished.
This process takes 24 hours and will usually takes place within a week of the session. Once your fused artwork has been kiln-fired and cooled, the Museum will contact you to let you know it is ready for collection.
Have you found a fossil or interesting rock over the summer? Drop in with your finds and our Museum scientists can help you identify them.
You can also 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 2026.
Drop in to meet Earth scientists Jeannie Booth, Mengyao Du and Simon Crowhurst and explore amazing, tiny 5000-year-old fossils under powerful microscopes.
Discover what these microfossils can tell us about oceans and climates thousands of years ago. Compare the features of different microfossils and get stuck into making your own microfossil model out of clay, to take home.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2026.
Join us as we celebrate the pioneering 19th century palaeontologist, Mary Anning. Hear about her revolutionary fossil discoveries by ‘meeting’ Mary in person, and find out about her experience as a working-class woman scientist in the 1800s.
Investigate Mary's fossil finds with her, and find out how some of her most spectacular discoveries came to be in our Museum collection. Step back in time and have fun dressing up as Mary and her brother Joseph.
Explore real rock and fossil specimens from the Sedgwick Museum collection. Discover fossils of animals so ancient that they went extinct before dinosaurs even evolved, and investigate rocks that glow under UV light.
Chat with Museum staff about their favourite fossils and find out what it's like to work at the Sedgwick Museum.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2026.
Drop in to meet volcanologist Julian Pahl and explore beautiful lava minerals under powerful microscopes, handle real (cooled!) lava, and use syrup and fizzy drinks to learn how lava flows.
Chat with Julian about his expeditions to Hawaii and find out what it's like to investigate volcanoes as a job.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2026.
Drop in and meet Dr Rayssa Martins-Pimentel, a cosmochemist who studies the chemistry of meteorites to find out what planets are made of.
Handle real meteorites, have fun spotting the difference between space rocks and Earth rocks, and chat with Rayssa about her work.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2026.
Explore the Kettle’s Yard house and current exhibition Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today, discovering how different artists express themselves through their paintings. Join artist Damaris in the Clore Learning Studio and get expressive using charcoal mark-making and acrylic paints.
