Theme: Sparks
Spark children’s imaginations with acting and writing workshops, creative activities and missions to become a codebreaker or to stop the march of the Zombies!
What's on
Operation Codebreaker
Calling all would be spies, secret agents and codebreakers. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to join Mrs Taylor our World War II recruiter, to crack codes and unravel secret messages in order to discover the stories behind some of our museum objects.
Operation Codebreaker
Calling all would be spies, secret agents and codebreakers. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to join Mrs Taylor our World War II recruiter, to crack codes and unravel secret messages in order to discover the stories behind some of our museum objects.
Make Your Own Book Workshop
It’s time to get creative! Find out about early printing and handwritten books, play games, then have a go at making a book of your own. Suitable for children aged 7+ accompanied by an adult.
Operation Codebreaker
Calling all would be spies, secret agents and codebreakers. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to join Mrs Taylor our World War II recruiter, to crack codes and unravel secret messages in order to discover the stories behind some of our museum objects.
The Story of Things: Lego building
Calling all budding builders! Drop in and use our Lego to make your own ‘thing’. Take inspiration from historic treasures from the archives, including maps and images of York. What will you create? Suitable for children aged 2+.
Operation Codebreaker
Calling all would be spies, secret agents and codebreakers. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to join Mrs Taylor our World War II recruiter, to crack codes and unravel secret messages in order to discover the stories behind some of our museum objects.
Zombies in York
Zombies have taken over York and brought the city to a standstill! But we were quick enough to catch one…
Come along and get involved as University of York scientists dissect the captured zombie in front of a live audience. This gruesome interactive event has hands-on opportunities to study the infectious agent causing the outbreak, examine the zombie blood, play with their brains and more. Will you be able to save York by working out how the disease started and how we can stop the onward march of the Zombies?!
Zombies in York
Zombies have taken over York and brought the city to a standstill! But we were quick enough to catch one…
Come along and get involved as University of York scientists dissect the captured zombie in front of a live audience. This gruesome interactive event has hands-on opportunities to study the infectious agent causing the outbreak, examine the zombie blood, play with their brains and more. Will you be able to save York by working out how the disease started and how we can stop the onward march of the Zombies?!
The Poetry of Plants
Explore the poetry of plants on a guided tour of the University of York’s Campus West. Through a series of poetry readings, you’ll look at how the botanical world has inspired poems, including Seamus Heaney’s 'Blackberry-Picking', Alice Oswald’s 'Daisy' and Marianne Moore’s 'Rosemary'.
Operation Codebreaker
Calling all would be spies, secret agents and codebreakers. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to join Mrs Taylor our World War II recruiter, to crack codes and unravel secret messages in order to discover the stories behind some of our museum objects.
Operation Codebreaker
Calling all would be spies, secret agents and codebreakers. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to join Mrs Taylor our World War II recruiter, to crack codes and unravel secret messages in order to discover the stories behind some of our museum objects.
Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon
Join University of York postgraduate students for an afternoon of energetic, crafty, puzzling, scientific and historical fun at this year’s Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon. Activities are particularly suitable for five to 11-year-olds but other family members are welcome to join in too.
Operation Codebreaker
Calling all would be spies, secret agents and codebreakers. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to join Mrs Taylor our World War II recruiter, to crack codes and unravel secret messages in order to discover the stories behind some of our museum objects.
Operation Codebreaker
Calling all would be spies, secret agents and codebreakers. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to join Mrs Taylor our World War II recruiter, to crack codes and unravel secret messages in order to discover the stories behind some of our museum objects.
