Have a great family day out at the National Media Museum !
The National Media Museum has lots of great activities and events for families every weekend, bank holiday and school holiday. Click here to see all the special family events.
Museum Activity Bags
Available from the Museum Shop, and packed with activities and ideas that will help you make the most out of a trip to the Museum. Include trail and quiz sheets, a flick book and a make- it-yourself flick book kit, a 3D book, a make-it-yourself thaumatrope kit, and a 'scratch-a-doodle'.
Cost: £6.00
Activity Sheets and
Museum Trails
The following quiz sheets are available free of charge from the Box Office
Photography Hunt
Experience TV
IMAX: Giant Screen
Museum Object Handling Sessions
Free, drop-in sessions that allow you to get up-close and personal with some of the objects from the Museum’s collections of photographs and cameras! These sessions include the opportunity to handle some original Victorian material, including family albums, Carte de Visites, stereoscopic viewers and daguerreotype photographs.
Cost: Free of Charge.
Art and Crafts Activities
Free drop-in workshops are available for family groups every weekend, and daily during school holiday periods. These workshops feature a variety of different children’s television characters and programmes, and include Gallery Discovery Sheets for the whole family to work on together.
Venue: Level 5
Time: Every weekend and every day during the main school holiday periods: 12.00 noon - 4.00pm
Cost: Free of charge and no pre-booking required
Storytelling
Come and lose yourself in a story with our resident storytellers. Further details are available daily (don’t forget to pick up your daily ‘What’s On sheet!) Generally three sessions per day will be on offer.
Venue: Various (details daily at Reception / Box Office)
Time: Various (details daily at Reception / Box Office)
Cost: Free of charge and no pre-booking required
Family Gallery Talks
These family talks have been specially designed to help you make the most of your visit to the Museum galleries.
Venue: Various (details daily at Reception / Box Office)
Time: Various (details daily at Reception / Box Office)
Cost: Free of charge and no pre-booking required
Sleepovers
