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Mon 28 July 2014 10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Extreme engineering

Engineering gets extreme this summer at the Cambridge Science Centre. Families! Build and test your ideas this summer as the Cambridge Science Centre celebrates engineering in its latest exhibition, Extreme Engineering, opening on 24 July.

Tue 29 July 2014 10:00AM - 11:00AM

Summer at the museums - putting your stamp on The Polar Museum: a children's tour of the museum

Join us for our first tour of The Polar Museum for children where we will tell you all about the Polar Regions, and everything from explorers to shamanism.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Extreme engineering

Engineering gets extreme this summer at the Cambridge Science Centre. Families! Build and test your ideas this summer as the Cambridge Science Centre celebrates engineering in its latest exhibition, Extreme Engineering, opening on 24 July.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Summer at the museums - CSI: detectives at the museum

Join us to uncover yet another dastardly crime in the Museum! Look for clues and put together the evidence, tell the story and find the culprit with storyteller Marion Leeper.

Wed 30 July 2014 10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Extreme engineering

Engineering gets extreme this summer at the Cambridge Science Centre. Families! Build and test your ideas this summer as the Cambridge Science Centre celebrates engineering in its latest exhibition, Extreme Engineering, opening on 24 July.

10:30AM - 2:30PM

Summer at the museums - the Iron Age

Join us in a Celtic shield making workshop - make a Celtic face and try using Celtic printing blocks.

11:00AM - 1:00PM

Summer at the museums - hands on with history

Get hands on with history this summer and join us for craft activities inspired by our archaeology, local history and natural history collections.

12:00PM - 4:00PM

Summer at the museums - eels alive!

Come and learn about these fascinating creatures, and find out more about where they lived. Follow the slippery trail and make your own eel-man.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Summer at the museums - family drop-in! Light and reflection

Get creative - use recycled translucent and reflective materials to create an artwork inspired by stained glass and mirrors.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Summer at the museums - hands on with history

Get hands on with history this summer and join us for craft activities inspired by our archaeology, local history and natural history collections.

Thu 31 July 2014 10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Extreme engineering

Engineering gets extreme this summer at the Cambridge Science Centre. Families! Build and test your ideas this summer as the Cambridge Science Centre celebrates engineering in its latest exhibition, Extreme Engineering, opening on 24 July.

10:30AM - 11:30AM

Summer at the Museums - boy

Boy's cave is cold. Can he find somewhere warm to sleep? Join him on his prehistoric adventure to find out!

11:45AM - 12:45PM

Summer at the museums - Oscar and Arabella: hot hot hot

Meet two woolly mammoths who don't like hot weather - and find out what they do about it! Family story telling for under 5's.

12:00PM - 4:00PM

Summer at the museums - eels alive!

Come and learn about these fascinating creatures, and find out more about where they lived. Follow the slippery trail and make your own eel-man.

2:00PM - 3:00PM

Summer at the Museums - awesome artefacts: Romans handling session

Fancy a chance to handle real Roman artefacts? Come along to find out what these 2,000-year-old objects can teach us about life in ancient Rome.

Fri 1 August 2014 10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Extreme engineering

Engineering gets extreme this summer at the Cambridge Science Centre. Families! Build and test your ideas this summer as the Cambridge Science Centre celebrates engineering in its latest exhibition, Extreme Engineering, opening on 24 July.

Sat 2 August 2014 10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Extreme engineering

Engineering gets extreme this summer at the Cambridge Science Centre. Families! Build and test your ideas this summer as the Cambridge Science Centre celebrates engineering in its latest exhibition, Extreme Engineering, opening on 24 July.

10:30AM - 12:30PM

Summer at the museums - puppet making workshop

Make your own puppet to take home and create your own show at this family puppet making workshop.

11:00AM - 3:00PM

Summer at the museums - bear hunting in the garden

We are going on a bear hunt! Make your very own bear mask then go on a hunt around the garden.

2:00PM - 3:00PM

Summer at the museums - puppet show: Robin Hood and his Merry Men

Join us for a Robin Hood themed free puppet show for families!

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Family first Saturdays

Visit our Fitz Family Welcome Point and collect materials to use in the Museum.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Summer at the Museums - family first Saturdays

On the first Saturday of each month visit our Fitz family welcome point and collect drawing materials, activities and trails to use throughout the Museum, exploring a variety of themes.

Sun 3 August 2014 10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Extreme engineering

Engineering gets extreme this summer at the Cambridge Science Centre. Families! Build and test your ideas this summer as the Cambridge Science Centre celebrates engineering in its latest exhibition, Extreme Engineering, opening on 24 July.

1:00PM - 4:00PM

Summer at the museums - studio Sunday

Join us in the learning studio to make your own artwork inspired by our exhibitions and collection. A chance to explore, chat, sketch, make and play.