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Children's activities at The Oxfordshire Museum

Crafts, family drop-ins, trails and holiday fun for children and families.

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Things to do

For families to enjoy during museum opening hours:

  • Hands-on, interactive gallery displays
  • Dressing up
  • Puppets, puzzles and colouring pencils
  • 3D glasses to bring treasures to life
  • Free trails, backpacks and explorer bags
  • Activities for under 5s with Tom the Sheepdog
  • Cosy reading corners
  • Café

Dinosaur garden and interactive dinosaur gallery

Dinosaur
  • Meet our life-size Megalosaur
  • Explore our garden with its Jurassic plants
  • Feed the dinosaurs in the gallery
  • Dinosaur puppet theatre
  • Discover dinosaur bones, fossils and what they can tell us
  • Learn about the Shire of the Dinosaurs
  • Dinosaur DVD

School holiday activities

TOMTots

Tuesdays: 10.30 – 11am 
Music, stories and rhymes for the under 5s.
£1 per child, £2.50 per family 

Family fun drop-ins

Tuesdays and Thursdays: 2 – 4pm
Fun and creative activities for all ages.
£2 per child, £5 per family

Event calendar

Title Date Price
Colour-Lab with Science Oxford [1] 30 May 10.00am £8 per Child
Colour-Lab with Science Oxford [2] 30 May 11.30am £8 per child

Times and dates of events may change. Please contact us [3] before hand.

Exhibitions, events and talks at The Oxfordshire Museum [4]
Last reviewed
22 January 2018

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Links:
[1] https://www2.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/event/colour-lab-science-oxford
[2] https://www2.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/event/colour-lab-science-oxford-0
[3] https://www2.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/node/1517
[4] https://www2.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/content/exhibitions-events-and-talks-oxfordshire-museum
[5] https://tutora.co.uk/get-kids-out-learning