10.30am – 3.30pm
10am – 5pm
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, CB2 3EQ Bring along your geological specimens – rocks, minerals and fossils for our experts to help you identify them. Event: 222, Map: 64, Hands on, Drop in, All ages
Amazing animals: crafty camouflage and communication Cambridge Science Centre, Jesus Lane, CB5 8BQ How good are you at spotting a copycat? The Zoology Museum will be running workshops and activities at the Cambridge Science Centre, exploring animal senses, camouflage and mimicry. Event: 219, Map: 8, Hands on, Drop in, All ages, Pre book tel: 01223 967965, email: info@cambridgesciencecentre.org, or visit: www.cambridgesciencecentre.org, Normal admission charges apply
What on earth is it? Antique rock show
DUN_DEAGH
Saturday 22 March
CSF in the city
11am – 12noon
Colourful creations
10.30am – 12noon, 1pm – 2.30pm, 3pm – 4.30pm
A chemical trail around Cambridge University Botanic Garden Botanic Garden, Brookside, CB2 1JE Plants contain many interesting chemical compounds, some of which have made them useful to us as medicines, foodstuffs, dyes etc. This guided walk will highlight some of these plants, from the Botanic Garden’s Chemicals from Plants Trail. Event: 220, Map: 4, Tour, Ages 15+, Pre book*, Standard admission charges for adults, accompanied children free 10.30am – 12.30pm
Rocks make pictures Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, CB2 3EQ Make and take away your own mineral picture using natural mineral pigments, just as our ancestors did thousands of years ago. Learn about the minerals which have provided artists with these pigments for millennia. Event: 221, Map: 64, Hands on, Drop in, Ages 8+
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Museum of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA Join us at the Museum of Classical Archaeology as we learn all about colour. We’ll be looking at painted statues in the Museum, learning about how to mix colours and designing our own colourful creations. Event: 223, Map: 34, Hands on, Ages 4 – 6, Pre book tel: 01223 330402, email: museum-education@classics.cam.ac.uk or visit: www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum 11am – 12.30pm
Beasts in the University Library: patterns in parchment and structures in skin Cambridge University Library, Milstein Seminar Rooms, West Road, CB3 9DR What is parchment? Come to Cambridge University Library and explore the science behind this extraordinary material. See how parchment is made and how it has been used in the production of books for hundreds of years. In addition, hear about the latest scientific research into the identification of the animal origin of many manuscripts. Event: 224, Map: 10, Workshop, Ages 15+, Pre book*
*Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/science-festival or tel: 01223 766766