Stroud Valleys Project and friends invite you to bring along your very own carved pumpkin lantern to the Museum and help create a magical trail to enjoy with your family at 5.30pm (drop off your pumpkin between 2.30pm and 5pm!). Celebrate Autumn with drop in craft activities - these will be running between 2.30pm and 5pm. Free, donations welcome, for further details click here.

Do ask for our special Awesome Autumn museum explorer trail too! You can enjoy this FREE indoor trail between 2pm and 4.30pm - ask at the Front Desk.

Build a rocket from building blocks and create a paper rocket to take home with you. Think about what Earth might look like from space as you use some cool science to make your own mini Earth. Carry out an experiment to think about how rockets launch using things we might have at home, try creating your own chalk galaxy artwork, and add a planet, star or moon to our paper universe. Tell us whether you would like to go to space by adding to our voting wall, before exploring the museum with a special themed trail about science.

We invite you to discover and explore together through this range of family-friendly activities designed to bring the theme of ‘space’ alive in a relaxed session designed for families with children over 5 years old.

Cost: £7.50 per child (£5 for MiP Members), accompanying adults free.

Booking required. Book online or call 01453 763394.

Build a rocket from building blocks and create a paper rocket to take home with you. Think about what Earth might look like from space as you use some cool science to make your own mini Earth. Carry out an experiment to think about how rockets launch using things we might have at home, try creating your own chalk galaxy artwork, and add a planet, star or moon to our paper universe. Tell us whether you would like to go to space by adding to our voting wall, before exploring the museum with a special themed trail about science.

We invite you to discover and explore together through this range of family-friendly activities designed to bring the theme of ‘space’ alive in a relaxed session designed for families with children over 5 years old.

Cost: £7.50 per child (£5 for MiP Members), accompanying adults free.

Booking required. Book online or call 01453 763394.

Think about making do and mending by exploring some objects to do with mending in the past and learn how to sew a button on scrap fabric.

Drop in family activities for all ages, for children, parents and grandparents to enjoy together. FREE but donations welcome. Come for as little or as long as you like.    

Sort the sparkly gemstones, find the buried ‘treasure’ and investigate some really old coins. Learn about the Anglo-Saxon brooch on display and be inspired as you make your own brooch to take home with you. Think about coin hoards as you experiment to find out what liquid cleans pennies best, challenge each other by playing simple old-fashioned penny games and use your imagination to help us create a treasure map. Tell us where you would hide some buried treasure by adding to our voting wall, before exploring the museum to think about coins and treasure using our special themed trail.

We invite you to discover and explore together through this range of family-friendly activities designed to bring the theme of ‘treasure’ alive in a relaxed session designed for families with children over 5 years old.

Cost: £7.50 per child (£5 for MiP Members), accompanying adults free.

Booking required. Book online or call 01453 763394. 

Sort the sparkly gemstones, find the buried ‘treasure’ and investigate some really old coins. Learn about the Anglo-Saxon brooch on display and be inspired as you make your own brooch to take home with you. Think about coin hoards as you experiment to find out what liquid cleans pennies best, challenge each other by playing simple old-fashioned penny games and use your imagination to help us create a treasure map. Tell us where you would hide some buried treasure by adding to our voting wall, before exploring the museum to think about coins and treasure using our special themed trail.

We invite you to discover and explore together through this range of family-friendly activities designed to bring the theme of ‘treasure’ alive in a relaxed session designed for families with children over 5 years old.

Cost: £7.50 per child (£5 for MiP Members), accompanying adults free.

Booking required. Book online or call 01453 763394. 

Think about natural instead of synthetic materials by exploring some objects to think more about natural materials, and help make decorative garlands and try some rag rugging using scrap fabrics.

Drop in family activities for all ages, for children, parents and grandparents to enjoy together. FREE but donations welcome. Come for as little or as long as you like.    

Get up close with some of real fossils and use some cool science skills to help a dino egg ‘hatch’.

Think about how fossils were made with a seashell fossil activity and explore our natural sensory exploration tray. Make a game to help you challenge yourself to move like a dinosaur, create a stegosaurus headdress to wear and add a prehistoric marine creature to our seascape. Tell us what your favourite dinosaur is by adding to our voting wall, before exploring the museum to see the fossils of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures with our themed trail.

We invite you to discover and explore together through this range of family-friendly activities designed to bring the theme of ‘dinosaurs’ alive in a relaxed session designed for families with children over 5 years old.

Cost: £7.50 per child (£5 for MiP Members), accompanying adults free.

Booking required. Book online or call 01453 763394.

Get up close with some of real fossils and use some cool science skills to help a dino egg ‘hatch’.

Think about how fossils were made with a seashell fossil activity and explore our natural sensory exploration tray. Make a game to help you challenge yourself to move like a dinosaur, create a stegosaurus headdress to wear and add a prehistoric marine creature to our seascape. Tell us what your favourite dinosaur is by adding to our voting wall, before exploring the museum to see the fossils of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures with our themed trail.

We invite you to discover and explore together through this range of family-friendly activities designed to bring the theme of ‘dinosaurs’ alive in a relaxed session designed for families with children over 5 years old.

Cost: £7.50 per child (£5 for MiP Members), accompanying adults free.

Booking required. Book online or call 01453 763394.

Come and join us as we see what’s blooming and buzzing in the beautiful Walled Garden. Hot and cold drinks and cakes from Miss Daisy, free informal session for all ages, donations welcome. Come and discover how to become a Bee Guardian. For more information, or to join the Buzz Club What’s App Group, please email Peter Lead.

Join us to find out about washdays past. Explore different ways to make bubbles, get hands on with how people in the past washed their clothes. Smell the soap, try out an old fashioned ‘dolly tub’ and hang the washing out to dry. Experiment with creating bubbles using things we might have at home. Create a bubble wand to try out, make a peg dolly using an old-fashioned clothes peg to take home with you and add to our big bubble art. Tell us what household gadget you like the most by adding to our voting wall, before exploring the museum with a special themed trail about household jobs in the past.

We invite you to discover and explore together through this range of family-friendly activities designed to bring the theme of ‘washdays long ago’ alive, in a relaxed session designed for families with children over 5 years old.

Cost: £7.50 per child (£5 for MiP Members), accompanying adults free

Booking required. Book online or call 01453 763394.

Join us to find out about washdays past. Explore different ways to make bubbles, get hands on with how people in the past washed their clothes. Smell the soap, try out an old fashioned ‘dolly tub’ and hang the washing out to dry. Experiment with creating bubbles using things we might have at home. Create a bubble wand to try out, make a peg dolly using an old-fashioned clothes peg to take home with you and add to our big bubble art. Tell us what household gadget you like the most by adding to our voting wall, before exploring the museum with a special themed trail about household jobs in the past.

We invite you to discover and explore together through this range of family-friendly activities designed to bring the theme of ‘washdays long ago’ alive, in a relaxed session designed for families with children over 5 years old.

Cost: £7.50 per child (£5 for MiP Members), accompanying adults free

Booking required. Book online or call 01453 763394.

Join local artist Noela Bewry and create colourful collages inspired by Pete Hoida’s vibrant paintings in the exhibition ‘Black Severn Angel’. Have fun playing with shape and colour and make a unique piece of art to take home with you. Drop in workshop for families with children aged 5+, suggested donation £1 per child. No need to book, just come along and enjoy!