Get yourself down to London’s most popular museum on Saturday, and learn a little about green screen, and become an ancient Greek Olympian and edit your portrait in Photoshop to print and take home.
Activity takes 30-40 minutes.
11.30–15.30 Samsung Centre Free, limited places
check on the website for more details
EASTER ACTIVITIES below
Saturday 6 April
- 11.30 Create a comic
Free / Digital workshop / Samsung Centre
Sunday 7 April
- Bring the Ice Age to life by animating huge horse models, then compete in a team to see whose animated horse can run the fastest.
Then try your hand at animating reindeer!
Sessions last 60 minutes.
Age: 7+
11.00 Ice Age horse race
Free / Digital workshop / Samsung Centre
- 11.30 Ice Age in motion
Free / Digital workshop / Samsung Centre
- 13.00 Ice Age horse race
Free / Digital workshop / Samsung Centre
- 14.00 Ice Age horse race
Free / Digital workshop / Samsung Centre
- 15.00 Ice Age horse race
Free / Digital workshop / Samsung Centre
Monday 8 April
- Come to the Museum for a week of activities exploring Ice Age art.
Find out about the techniques used by early artists to create colourful wall images and exquisite hand-held sculptures. You can also watch modern artists at work and have a go at a bit of Ice Age art yourself.
Suitable for all ages.
11.00 Mammoths, reindeer and lions: Ice Age animals
Free / Half-term activity / Great Court
Tuesday 9 April
- 11.00 Mammoths, reindeer and lions: Ice Age animals
Free / Half-term activity / Great Court
Wednesday 10 April
- 11.00 Mammoths, reindeer and lions: Ice Age animals
Free / Half-term activity / Great Court
Thursday 11 April
- 11.00 Mammoths, reindeer and lions: Ice Age animals
Free / Half-term activity / Great Court
Friday 12 April
- 11.00 Mammoths, reindeer and lions: Ice Age animals
Free / Half-term activity / Great Court
Saturday 13 April
- Use smartphones to follow an augmented reality trail around the Egyptian galleries.
Solve clues about the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Activity takes about 40 minutes.
Age: 7+
11.30 Passport to the afterlife
Free / Digital workshop / Samsung Centre
Sunday 14 April
- Learn about card games from around the world.
Then work with a professional games designer to create your own personalised deck of cards to take home.
Sessions last 120 minutes.
Age: 7+
11.00 Reshuffling the deck: card game workshop
Free / Digital workshop / Samsung Centre
- 14.00 Reshuffling the deck: card game workshop
Free / Digital workshop / Samsung Centre
Saturday 20 April
- Use a green screen and Photoshop to create a picture of yourself interacting with some of the Museum’s most fascinating objects.
Activity takes 30-40 minutes.
Age: 7+
11.30 Green screen time machine
Free / Digital workshop / Samsung Centre
Sunday 21 April
- Use stop-motion software and digital video cameras to create animations based on weird and wonderful mythical medieval creatures.
Sessions last 120 minutes.
Age: 7+
11.00 Medieval animation workshop
Free / Digital workshop / Samsung Centre
- 14.00 Medieval animation workshop
Free / Digital workshop / Samsung Centre
Saturday 27 April
- Use Photoshop to design your own mosaic masks inspired by the fearsome Aztec gods.
Print your finished mask to take home and wear.
Activity takes about 30 minutes.
Age: 7+
11.30 Magical mosaic masks
Free / Digital workshop / Samsung Centre
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