Summer holiday fun for families
Events 18-24 August 2008
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Entertain your family this summer with an interactive journey into London’s history. Become a top secret investigator and learn how to crack codes and send secret messages, investigate mystery objects and the stories behind them. From rhymes and rhythms to storytelling and songs there is a jam packed programme to keep the kids entertained throughout the holidays.
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Summer holiday events:
Mon 18 August
Bizarre!
Take this rare opportunity to see some of the more unusual objects from the Museum's collection. With a curator you will explore some of our oddest and most peculiar objects. Will you be able to work out what they are?
1-1.30pm & 2-2.30pm. Drop-in object handling 5+
A very important stone
Join this art workshop in an attempt to solve the mystery of the London stone. Will you be any wiser and will it save London? Find out at this workshop.
12.30-2pm & 2.30-4pm, Drop-in 5+
Working water
Try out our working replica of a Roman waterlifting machine. Discover what it might have been like being a slave in London 2000 years ago.
1.30-2pm & 3.30-4pm. Weather permitting. Drop-in 5+
Tue 19 August
Bizarre!
Take this rare opportunity to see some of the more unusual objects from the Museum's collection. With a curator you will explore some of our oddest and most peculiar objects. Will you be able to work out what they are?
1-1.30pm & 2-2.30pm, Drop-in object handling 5+
Working water
Try out our working replica of a Roman waterlifting machine. Discover what it might have been like being a slave in London 2000 years ago.
1.30-2pm & 3.30-4pm. Weather permitting. Drop-in 5+
Mystery puzzle
Create your own jigsaw to test a friend or family member. Use the Museum's many objects, illustrations or paintings for inspiration and make it into a personalised puzzle.
12.30-2pm & 2.30-4pm. Drop-in 5+
Wed 20 August
The London Stone mystery
Discover the secrets of this mystical stone. In this spellbinding storytelling session you will discover the story of the stone and how it might decide London's future.
1-1.30pm, 2-2.30pm & 3-3.30pm. Storytelling 5+
Working water
Try out our working replica of a Roman waterlifting machine. Discover what it might have been like being a slave in London 2000 years ago.
1.30-2pm & 3.30-4pm. Weather permitting. Drop-in 5+
Mystery puzzle
Create your own jigsaw to test a friend or family member. Use the Museum's many objects, illustrations or paintings for inspiration and make it into a personalised puzzle.
12.30-2pm & 2.30-4pm. Drop-in 5+
Thu 21 August
The London Stone mystery
Discover the secrets of this mystical stone. In this spellbinding storytelling session you will discover the story of the stone and how it might decide London's future.
1-1.30pm, 2-2.30pm & 3-3.30pm. Storytelling 5+
Working water
Try out our working replica of a Roman waterlifting machine. Discover what it might have been like being a slave in London 2000 years ago.
1.30-2pm & 3.30-4pm. Weather permitting. Drop-in 5+
Fri 22 August
The Mystery bag
What strange things are in the mystery bag? And what stories do they tell? A storytelling session for those aged 3-5 yrs.
1-1.30pm, 2-2.30pm & 3-3.30pm. Storytelling 3+
Meet the mystery Londoners
Closely guarded in the Museum are the remains of some people who once lived here. Their bones help us to understand how they lived, what they ate and how they died. The Museum's experts will help you understand how they discovered these secrets.
12-12.30pm, 1-1.30pm, 2-2.30pm & 3-3.30pm. Drop-in 7+
Working water
Try out our working replica of a Roman waterlifting machine. Discover what it might have been like being a slave in London 2000 years ago.
1.30-2pm & 3.30-4pm. Weather permitting. Drop-in 5+
Sat 23 August
Mystery objects
You will probably never have seen anything like it before...
Investigate mystery objects and discover new stories from London's past. There are stories behind the objects ending up here and their hidden meanings.
12.30-2pm & 2.30-4pm. Drop-in object handling 5+
Working water
Try out our working replica of a Roman waterlifting machine. Discover what it might have been like being a slave in London 2000 years ago.
1.30-2pm & 3.30-4pm. Weather permitting. Drop-in 5+
Sun 24 August
What's hiding in the river Thames?
Could it be a monster? Join our experts and find out what is lurking beneath the Thames' waves. Stroll along the foreshore and pick up your own archaeological finds, then come back to the Museum and discover how to use them as clues to London's past.
1-3.30pm. Walks 5+ Advanced booking necessary Tel 0870 444 3855
Mystery objects
You will probably never have seen anything like it before... Investigate mystery objects and discover new stories from London's past. There are stories behind the objects ending up here and their hidden meanings.
12.30-2pm & 2.30-4pm. Drop-in object handling 5+
Working water
Try out our working replica of a Roman waterlifting machine. Discover what it might have been like being a slave in London 2000 years ago.
1.30-2pm & 3.30-4pm. Weather permitting. Drop-in 5+
Story time
Join the Museum's hosts to discover stories from and about London. Look at objects, books and anecdotes as you go on a journey to London's past.
11-11.20am & 12-12.20pm. Storytelling 5+
Find out more about our FREE family events happening throughout the summer holidays...