Date: Wednesday 23 July 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.

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Date: Wednesday 23 July 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.

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Date: Wednesday 23 July 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.

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Date: Wednesday 23 July 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.

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Date: Wednesday 23 July 2014, 5:30 pm-8:00 pm
Venue: York St Mary's

Artists and MA students in Theatre and Performance from York St John University, Lawrence Crawford and Kiran Tanna, perform a live response to the Peter Emil Madsen Collection.

In early 2014, the performers were set a commission to write and perform a new work in response to Madsen’s archive.

Through a creative process of responding to his objects, they weaved a series of imaginative ideas, fictional tales and autobiographical stories.

Lawrence and Kiran will share their lively and playful works in miniature. Dr Claire Hind will summarise the performances with a short talk on performance writing and commissions.

There will also be a visit to one or two other exhibitions (tbc).

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