With expert advice from our curators, designers and conservators, learn the skills you need to create your own exhibition. Work with real objects, find out how to research your theme, display your information and promote your exhibition.
Youth dance experts YDance will lead you on an African adventure in storytelling and dance. Handle real African artefacts and explore the myths and stories behind them. Get creative and active when you present your own interpretations.
Become an investigator for the day and put your thinking skills to the test. Explore real and replica objects from our handling collections, then tell us what you see.
Let experts from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds guide you through Scotland’s diverse natural habitats and meet the wildlife that lives in them.
A volcano is about to erupt! What should you do? Work with experts from the British Geological Survey to take on the roles of scientists, authorities and members of the public and decide whether to evacuate or not.
How do we look into space and what do we see there? How do meteorites from space end up on Earth? Discover the answers when you handle real meteorites, build your own telescope and plot a star chart.
Disaster has struck in ancient Egypt! The River Nile hasn’t flooded and the harvest may fail. Help us lift the curse.
Across the globe people use masks to transform themselves. Be inspired by our gallery displays then design and make your own mask and become an animal from the natural world. Explore how you would think, move and communicate from behind your mask.
Why might a leopard change its spots? How does an elephant avoid sunburn? Answer these questions and more in our active, hands-on workshop.