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Saturday 18 – Saturday 25 February 2023 (closed Sundays) | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Uncover all there is to know about fascinating fossils this February half-term holiday! Can you find the fossils hidden around the building? Take a look at the real ones in the museum too. Pick up an activity bag which includes a fossil-themed family trail, colouring and puzzle sheets, along with an ammonite and dinosaur bones [...]
Tuesday 31 October, Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 November, 10.30am – 12noon | The Commandery Have lots of fun in the most spooky of half-term holidays... Decorate eyeball biscuits, make dancing ghosts and create spooky crafts – The Commandery’s becoming a haunted house this October! There'll also be a haunted house trail which you can follow and explore all the nooks and crannies of The Commandery. Every session includes a story, [...]
Saturday 28 October - Saturday 4 November (closed Sundays)Â | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Professor B. Spooky has been experimenting again and making lots of monsters! Luckily for us, they seem to be nice and they like to help around the museum, especially helping everyone be creative. Come up with your own creature and a monster mask so you can blend in with the Professor's creations. Each activity bag has [...]
First Friday of the month, 11am - 3pm | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Step inside the fantastic Steward's Chemist Shop at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum and hear about its history... The display was set up after the closure of Steward's Chemist Shop at 27 High Street, when the entire shop along with the fixtures and fittings were purchased in 1974 and transported to the museum to be redisplayed. Over [...]
* Please note the opening of this display has been postponed and we are looking forward to announcing a new date in due course. * New permanent museum display opens Saturday 12 October | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum This exciting new display shows Worcester’s heritage presented in the words of those that know it best: the people who live in the ‘Faithful City’. Discover which historic items are meaningful [...]
Saturday 10 to Sunday 18 February 2024 | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Delve into the fascinating history of Ancient Egypt during the February half-term holiday. Archaeologist Edie has travelled here from 1922. Explore the museum and see if you can find all eight objects so Edie can travel back in time with them. Can you spot them all? * Please note these activities are standalone and aren’t linked to [...]
Thursday 30 and Friday 31 May 2024, 10.30 - 11.30am | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Travel back in time to Ancient Rome at the Art Gallery and Museum this half-term holiday! In these sessions, children can get hands-on with clay by making a Roman-inspired mosaic square and a pinch pot to take home. See real Roman mosaics and pottery in the museum while you're visiting, delve into fun activity [...]
10 September to 25 October AND 5 November to 13 December 2024 | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Become a museum detective at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum this autumn! Eight items on display have been chosen for you to find - can you spot them all? When you find an object, you'll be able to draw and record it on your trail sheet. This trail runs in term-time [...]
Borrow a Loans Box You can access the extensive Worcestershire County collection through Loans Boxes, covering themes including Roman life, Victorian life, toys from the past, and wartime Britain. Boxes can be borrowed for a half or full term. See the Loans Boxes price list here. Browse Loans Boxes for your school This is a selection of our Loans Boxes - for the full list see [...]
Tues 14 September, 1.30pm Join Museums Worcestershire's curators on the 2nd Tuesday of each month for a series of talks about the collections. Find out what sort of objects the deceased were buried with for use in the afterlife, with our World Cultures curator. Grave goods included pots, combs, stone vessels, figurines, jewellery and amulets. Bite size talks are approximately 30 minutes long. £3 per person. Book Tickets through Art Tickets [...]
