Family Museum Engineers Play: Saturday PLAY Days
Saturdays | 5 April, 3 May, 7 June & 5 July 2025 | 11am - 3.30pm
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5 April 11.00am – 5 July 3.30pm 2025
Explore an open-ended play environment using unique resources that encourage engineering skills, problem-solving, imagination and, of course, quality family fun!
Drop In | Included with Admission
Designed for age 0 - 99 (and older too)
Family Museum Engineers are play sessions designed for the whole family, providing opportunities to explore an open-ended play environment using unique resources with a STEM* based approach that encourage engineering skills, problem-solving, imagination and, of course, quality family fun! The sessions are linked to themes and objects within our collections and take place directly in the gallery spaces, giving your children (and the adults too) experiences of museum environments through a very playful approach. Each month our family museum engineers will get hands-on with play items that differ slightly each time, opening up varied experiences each time you visit.
*Not sure what STEM is? Don’t worry, you don’t really need to know what it is to enjoy and embrace these activities. That’s what are skilled and talented Learning Team are here for. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. This can sound a little scary, especially when you have young children, but STEM based play is important for children to develop skills and knowledge that they will use at school and into their adulthood too. Exposure to any play that encourages children to figure things out, how things work and to be creative is STEM, and as you become more familiar with our sessions, you will quickly realise that STEM is all around us, all the time, and you will have been supporting your children with this already, perhaps without even realising it.
Quiet Times:
Family Museum Engineers are play sessions designed for the whole family and can be overwhelming when it is very busy. Introducing our quiet times, we welcome a small number of families to ease into their exploration of our open-ended play space in a calm environment.
Families will start their day with a short walk from the front entrance through a quiet museum to a calm workshop space where unique resources encourage engineering skills, problem-solving, imagination and of course, quality family fun!
Each month our family museum engineers will get hands-on with play items that differ slightly each time, offering the exploration of different themes and objects inspired by our collections and varied experiences each time you visit
Please book your Quiet Time slot by completing our booking form and email to [email protected]
We offer this space to three families at one time.
Should the spaces be filled by the time you complete and send your booking form, we will place you on a waiting list for the day you have requested. In the case of a cancellation, we will inform you immediately.
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