Date: Wednesday 20 August 2014, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum
Send your own messages and decode a special message from the museum using semaphore and Morse code in this drop-in activity.
Weekly prize draw for correct answers.
Date: Wednesday 20 August 2014, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Calling all Dinosaur Detectives!
Precious artefacts are being found with bites taken out of them. Can you help the museum staff solve the mystery?
Which naughty dinosaur could it be? Handle dinosaur fossils from the museum collections and follow the clues to earn your Dinosaur Detective badge.
Date: Wednesday 20 August 2014, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum
Meet the Recruitment Officer in our new exhibition, 1914: When the World Changed Forever, and find out if you have what it takes to join the new volunteer army.
Sign up for special drill sessions where you will be put through your paces, at 11am, 12:30pm, 2pm, and 3pm.
Date: Wednesday 20 August 2014, 10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Make your own dino mask and decorate it with collage techniques using our special reptilian paper.
Or you can walk with dinosaurs and create your own dinosaur feet, inspired by the museum’s collection of dinosaur footprint fossils.
Date: Wednesday 20 August 2014, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Fun, family-friendly activities about scaly creatures and dinosaurs, including the chance to design your own mythical beast. Activities in and around the Yorkshire Museum and Gardens.
Patrick Wildgust, curator of Shandy Hall, will be also in the museum gardens from 7.30am recording the previous nights moth trap and will be talking about the moth trapping activities and showing the moths from the previous night from 11am – 4pm.
Normal museum admission applies for activities inside the Yorkshire Museum.
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