Join us for hands-on creative fun for you and your little ones.

Whether it’s colouring, splashing, or getting stuck into some glorious gloop in an activity room, or discovering beastly bugs and playing instruments in the gallery, our under 5s sessions provide our youngest visitors the chance to explore their senses, get creative and sometimes make a little bit of a mess (don’t worry, you can leave the cleaning up to us).

We alternate each week between messy play in the activity room or sensory play and object handling in the museum spaces.

On Fri 13 May, join us for sensory play, object handling and enjoying the museum spaces.

Examples of our sensory sessions include:

• creating cosy, soft spaces with rugs and cushions in the gallery, and reading stories, building animal homes out of cushions, or playing animal hide and seek
• handling materials with different textures, like wood, dry clay, fabrics, metals, and rough and smooth objects
• handling and playing with household objects like colanders, kitchen tools, brushes, and keys 

Please note all children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.