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Hone your guerilla gardening skills and try your hand at sustainable building this half term. Use our new brick press to make a brick out of natural materials from Museum of the Home's garden. Plus, become an eco-artist-activist by creating seed bomb sculptures to leave a mark in your local neighbourhood. Finally, learn to harness the power of the sun by designing and printing a cyanotype garden flag!
Adobe brick making lab with MATT+FIONA
Gardens, drop-in 10.30am - 4pm
Try your hand at making adobe bricks using the Brixer, a new brick making lab designed in collaboration with a local primary school and MATT+FIONA. You'll use mini clay brick presses to design and build architectural models of adobe brick structures!
Cyanotype garden flags with Georgia Chambers
Learning Pavilion, drop-in 10.30am - 4pm
Make a photographic-style print without a camera, using natural materials and UV rays from the sun. You can turn your print into a flag to hang outdoors.
Seed bomb sculptures
Gardens, drop-in 10.30am - 4pm
Make a clay sculpture and sow it with native wild seeds – take it away with you and leave in a local park or garden for it to break down and grow.
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Time:
10:30 - 16:00
Prices:
Free
Age:
All ages
Hoxton Station
There is no car park at the Museum and local on-street parking is limited.
Children's trails
Explorer Bags
Fun in the galleries and gardens
Family events
The café is closed until further notice
The Museum is accessible for prams and buggies. There are baby changing facilities in each of the accessible toilets across the Museum (there are four of these).
There are passenger lifts between floors and a vertical platform lift from the Home Galleries to the Gardens Through Time. For step-free access to the Collections Display on the first floor please ask a member of our team for assistance. Manual wheelchairs are available to borrow for use in our galleries and gardens.
Guide, assistance and emotional support dogs – including dogs in training – are welcome at the Museum as long as they are working and wearing their tabard/harness, or by being identified as such to staff at the Welcome Desk.
