Go on voyage of discovery full of sea creatures and sea people this summer break!
Take part in family workshops (selected dates only, listed below) and catch flying fish, design your own sea monster or finger puppet, or join a flotsam weaving workshop – all free with admission to the ship!
What the Ladybird Heard makes its West End debut this summer!
It tells the story of two crafty robbers, one tiny ladybird and a whole farmyard of fun.
Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len have a cunning plan to steal the farmer’s fine prize cow... But they don’t reckon on the tiniest, quietest creature of all: the Ladybird who has a plan of her own!
Almost 250 years ago the very first Royal Academy of Arts summer exhibition was put on!
Now, nearly 250 years later, the group is still discovering new talent.
The Royal Academy of Arts coordinates the largest open submission exhibition in the world.
Basically, that means almost anyone can submit work to the exhibit and if it's good, it will be shown.
There are over 1,200 works showing over just eight days.
Come face to face with hundreds of fluttering butterflies in the Natural History Museum’s Sensational Butterflies tropical house! There are loads of colourful butterflies from all over the world! From Africa, Asia, America, and more! They all fly freely in this huge family exhibit, now in its ninth year. //content.jwplatform.com/players/oGfh6VhB-vdnc3Srf.js You’ll get to see the more »
Enter this amazing world of robotic creatures and discover facts about animals that share our world! Walk around the exhibition and see robot animals! The robots even do things that real animals do, like how a chameleon changes colour and how giant squids jet around! You’ll even get to design your own mutant robot creature… more »
Explore the 500 year story of robots at the Science Museum this summer! From a 16th-century mechanical monk to robots from science fiction and modern-day research labs – you’ll see over 100 different robots! Some of the robots are actual working models! You’ll also meet Cygan, a giant Italian robot and one of the first more »
Step into this 17 meters high, 40-tonne metal installation to explore the life of bees! Visitors can stand, lie, or sit within a giant honeycomb as thousands of lights flicker around them and music plays! The music has been specially made to mimic a bee’s singing voice. //content.jwplatform.com/players/rb9jC5t3-vdnc3Srf.js The lights you see and the sounds more »
The UK’s largest jellyfish exhibit has just opened at SEA Life London! Jellyfish are older than all of our ancient reptiles. Scientists believe they first swam in our oceans around 500 million years ago! Over 5,000 varieties of six different species have been bred for the past year ready for the experience opening! During your more »
A story of friendship and courage, The Wind in the Willows is one of the best loved books of all time! Now it’s on stage at the London Palladium in a glittering new production that promises summer fun for all ages. Join Ratty, Badger, Mole and Toad as they embark on a series of adventures, spiralling from more »
Suspend your disbelief and enter the world of The Learned Society of Extra Ordinary Objects, a design exhibition revealing the extra-ordinary possibilities of everyday objects!
This unique exhibition centres on the power of imagination and storytelling with design!
Eureka! is hosting the European premiere of digiPlaySpace, an exhibition all the way from Canada! digiPlaySpace is a collection of digital art. It features really futuristic installations and encourages you to get hands-on with some of the most creative technologies through games and play! The exhibition opens on Saturday 8 July to celebrate Eureka!’s 25th anniversary and more »
If you love animals, you're in for a treat this summer at Vauxhall City Farm! They're hosting free drop in sessions every Wednesday and Thursday over the summer holidays. Play hide and seek with the hens, have a go at the greedy goat game or sniff some ferrets (gross!)! The events give you the chance to learn how to keep more »
Every year Millets Farm in Abingdon cuts a maze into a big field of corn! It's a tradition that started in 1997 and 20 years on, it's still running! Millets Maize Maze is open from mid-July to early September. Each year, the maze has a different theme; for 2017, it is seaside themed. Once inside the more »
King Kong is all about a group of adventurers who sail to Skull Island in search of a big, scary monster called Kong.
When the adventurers arrive, a group of people who live on Skull Island kidnap a girl called Ann. The adventurers fight back, rescue Ann and flee the island, but they also take Kong with them!
Chained and shackled, the monster taken to New York City and shown to audiences who laugh and scream at him. Until he breaks free...
A funny version of the story is showing at The Vaults Theatre in London. It's called King Kong (a comedy) and is showing until the end of August.
The show is written by Daniel Clarkson and directed by Owen Lewis. Between them, they have three nominations for really special theatre awards!