Events Around Coventry

Seven remarkable artists have been united to take you on a journey to enchanting new worlds, one of unexpected environments, and dreamlike realities.  Inspired by the museum’s collection and Coventry, Wonder will take you beyond gallery walls with immersive fun for visitors of all ages.

Tuesdays (Coventry term time only) Two sessions each day at 10.30am – 11.00am & 11.30am – 12.00pm 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.

When everything tells you who you should be, how can you know who you are? All his life Micaiah has been told he is clever, special, different. A successful entrepreneur, generous son and brother, so what if his pride in his achievements spills over into arrogance; he is Micaiah!

The Sound of Springsteen formed in late 2017 from a passion for the work of ‘THE BOSS’. Each member of this 7 piece band has their own unique abilities as performers and an undeniable love of the music.

Ben Portsmouth -The World’s Number One Elvis Tribute Artist. Ben, a multi talented musician, singer and songwriter had Elvis’s DNA in his blood from an early age. His father was an avid Elvis fan and Ben grew up on a diet of Elvis songs.

NORTHERN SOUL LIVE is A SOUL & MOTOWN PARTY with ANGELO STARR & THE TEAM AKA THE EDWIN STARR BAND –with special guest original Northern Soul artist LORRAINE SILVER who had a massive success at the legendary Wigan Casino with her track ‘LOST SUMMER LOVE EDWIN STARR’S original band backed Edwin on all his shows

Northern Soul Live is a Soul and Motown party with The Edwin Starr band –The Team featuring Angelo Starr with original Northern Soul artist Lorraine Silver. Edwin Starr’s original band backed Edwin on all his shows. They are still intact following his sad passing in 2003.

Amor is the Whitney Houston in the Bollywood music industry in the late 1980s. She is silenced when she uncovers an explosive secret involving Cyrus, her music producer and husband. 30 years later, British Asian singer Amar is struggling to make his mark as a mainstream star.

THE FEVER IS BACK! IN A BIG NEW PRODUCTION! ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS EVER! Marking 40 years since its famous UK cinema release, Saturday Night Fever is spectacularly re-imagined in a big new music and dance extravaganza.

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.

Let’s be curious! This summer we are introducing our exciting new family session, This makes That with These. This session invites you to satisfy your curiosity and use your creativity. Look inside and see how things work and create your own inventions with our challenge kits.

Let’s be curious! This summer we are introducing our exciting new family session, This makes That with These. This session invites you to satisfy your curiosity and use your creativity. Look inside and see how things work and create your own inventions with our challenge kits.

Make and Play Engineers introduces the topics of our Mini Museum Engineers   sessions to children up to the age of 8 to play, explore and learn amidst our collections. Let’s play!   This fun session explores ramps and racers.

Become a marble run specialist in this fun session where we play with giant ball runs and small marble runs. What will your marble run look like? Which material will you use? How high can you build it? Let’s play! Mini Museum Engineers invites you to stay & play amid our museum collections.

We are celebrating Roald Dahl Day with this Mini Museum Engineers session. Roald Dahl’s stories are full of amazing inventions, crazy concoctions and fantastic creations. What will you make? Let’s play! Mini Museum Engineers invites you to stay & play amid our museum collections.

Did you know that we can code without using computers? Play along in this session and have fun with coding essentials that form the basis of coding on computers. Let’s play! Mini Museum Engineers invites you to stay & play amid our museum collections.

Beach Boyz Tribute Band is back in town with its brand new 2019 show The Beach Boys® Tribute Show! See the boys up close as featured on BBC TV, BBC Radio Wales and BBC and independent local radio stations across the UK!

Come along to the Let’s Animate Studio every Thursday throughout the Summer Holidays and create a short animated film with Let’s Animate!

Awesome Animators - Let’s Animates Teen monthly Animation Club!   Come along to the Let’s Animate studio and have fun animating, each month Filmmakers are given creative animation activities helping them to learn and understand all about animation, whilst having fun.

Celebrate the end of the British Science Festival 2019 in style as we take over Coventry’s FarGo Village. From holograms, to comedy, and mind-reading technology to an adult mud kitchen (plus so much more), grab a drink and all your friends to help us see the Festival out with a bang.

This September, Coventry and Warwickshire will make history. For the first ever time, the area will be transformed into a vibrant celebration of science by welcoming the British Science Festival to its streets and venues.

Join the University of Warwick for an extra-special Family Day, jam-packed with discovery, exploration and experiments. Dozens of stalls, workshops, talks and performances will take over the campus, exploring space, dinosaurs, cities of the future, our planet, ancient worlds and more.

If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise as we’ll be there having fun in our fantastic forest with lots of games and activities.

Join professional wildlife cameraman Simon Watts for a session exploring the skills needed for taking wildlife videos. Each session will cover Equipment – cameras/hides/tripods and more... Resolution for film – and camera set-up. Finding wildlife – patterns of behaviour and knowing a ‘patch’.

Help us find all the colours of summer and get arty outdoors as we go on a summer adventure.