Date: Saturday 26 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: Saturday 26 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: Saturday 26 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: Saturday 26 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: Saturday 26 July 2014, 11:00 am-1:00 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum

The museum needs your help to identify some mystery dinosaur bones!

Led by museum staff this workshop includes five dino activities to investigate with your family. Then you create your own collage dino pictures and make a plaster cast fossil to take home.

£2 per person.

To book a place ring York Museums Trust on 01904 687633.

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Date: Saturday 26 July 2014, 11:00 am-4:00 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum

Join us to make a scary Lego-saurus or a vicious Lego-raptor. What will your Lego-Dino look like?

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Date: Saturday 26 July 2014, 12:00 pm-4:00 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum

Special drop in family workshops to make your own morse code machine.

FREE

No booking required. Places are limited and will be first come, first serve.

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