Events Around Coventry

Join our Curator for a 30 minute behind the scenes talk and tour in our Natural History store, where you will encounter objects from our skeletal collection and a mummified cat too!

These sessions provide an opportunity for our youngest visitors to engage with our collections in a way that is meaningful to them, is hands-on, appeals to their imaginations and above all else is fun.

Join our Curator for a 30 minute behind the scenes talk and tour in our Natural History store, where you will encounter objects from our skeletal collection and a mummified cat too!

These sessions provide an opportunity for our youngest visitors to engage with our collections in a way that is meaningful to them, is hands-on, appeals to their imaginations and above all else is fun.

Thursdays 5 September | 3 October | 7 November | 5 December Two sessions each day at 10.30am – 12.00pm & 1.30pm – 3.00pm Babies and toddlers will have the opportunity to explore various materials across the sessions including paint, glitter, paste, sand, clay, slimy spaghetti, chalk and much more.

These sessions provide an opportunity for our youngest visitors to engage with our collections in a way that is meaningful to them, is hands-on, appeals to their imaginations and above all else is fun.

19 & 20 September | 17 & 18 October | 14 & 15 November | 19 & 20 December Two sessions each day at 10.30am – 11.30am & 1.00pm - 2.00pm Explore and grow using inspiring sensory materials, where the possibilities are endless!

19 & 20 September | 17 & 18 October | 14 & 15 November | 19 & 20 December Two sessions each day at 10.30am – 11.30am & 1.00pm - 2.00pm Explore and grow using inspiring sensory materials, where the possibilities are endless!

Come and be transported back in time to the days of the Plantagenet kings and queens who ruled both England and parts of France. On Saturday 26th October Archaedium presents a concert of music from the 12th to 14th centuries by English and French composers.

1982: Archie Rice is a washed-up entertainer playing a summer season. As his soldier son sails with the Task Force to liberate the Falklands, his daughter Jean returns from campaigning against the war, and Archie’s professional and personal lives collide with devastating consequences.

We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead! So it’s time to prepare yourselves for two amazing shows with Horrible Histories live on stage!: Awful Egyptians and Terrible Tudors.

We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead! So it’s time to prepare yourselves for two amazing shows with Horrible Histories live on stage!: Awful Egyptians and Terrible Tudors.

Meet Daisy. She’s got a messy brain and a messy bedroom. No matter what she does, ‘The Mess’ just seems to follow her about! Which makes it very difficult to look for stuff. Important stuff. Like Mr Twiggy!

A concert by two legends of 1960s and 70s progressive folk: Jacqui McShee (Pentangle) and Joe O’Donnell (East of Eden, Headstone) and their current bands. Jacqui McShee is celebrated as the singer with Pentangle, the Folk group that helped to mould and inspire the 1960s British music scene.

Nikolai Foster brings Hanif Kureishi’s iconic and Oscar-nominated screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette to the stage.

A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood… Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep, dark wood in Tall Stories’ magical, musical adaptation of the classic picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

Drop in | £3 per child (Cash only) - Admission prices apply to venue This October holiday explore, test and celebrate all types of energy sources. Where does energy come from, and what can we use it for?

Are you ready to move, play and experiment this summer?!   Explore an iersive world of games, challenges, and triumph in this must-see exhibition! From disco donuts to nostalgic tennis, thermal cameras to tightrope walking.

Are you ready to move, play and experiment this summer?!   Explore an iersive world of games, challenges, and triumph in this must-see exhibition! From disco donuts to nostalgic tennis, thermal cameras to tightrope walking.

Drop in | £3 per child (Cash only) - Admission prices apply to venue This October holiday explore, test and celebrate all types of energy sources. Where does energy come from, and what can we use it for?

This October, we have set ourselves the challenge to understand energy as a resource. What is energy? What does it do? Where does it come from?

Are you ready to move, play and experiment this summer?!   Explore an iersive world of games, challenges, and triumph in this must-see exhibition! From disco donuts to nostalgic tennis, thermal cameras to tightrope walking.

Drop in | £3 per child (Cash only) - Admission prices apply to venue This October holiday explore, test and celebrate all types of energy sources. Where does energy come from, and what can we use it for?

Are you ready to move, play and experiment this summer?!   Explore an iersive world of games, challenges, and triumph in this must-see exhibition! From disco donuts to nostalgic tennis, thermal cameras to tightrope walking.

Are you ready to move, play and experiment this summer?!   Explore an iersive world of games, challenges, and triumph in this must-see exhibition! From disco donuts to nostalgic tennis, thermal cameras to tightrope walking.