Dates:
12 Feb 2024 - 18 Feb 2024
Choose from tasty cookery lessons taught by a French/Tunisian chef, storytelling with a Caribbean theme, music and folktales inspired by Eastern Europe, energetic toddler parties with music from around the world, and craft activities celebrating London’s diverse cultures and languages.
Treats from the Middle East
Tue 13, Wed 14, Thu 15 Feb
10.30–11.30am, 12.15–1.15pm & 2–3pm
Spice up and sweeten your life with our Middle Eastern and North African cookery class.
Party fun
Wed 14, Thu 15 & Fri 16 Feb
10.30–11.15am, 12–12.45pm & 2.15–3pm
Bop and boogie along to anthems from around the world.
Rainforest tales
Wed 14, Thu 15 & Fri 16 Feb
11.30–12.15am, 1.15–2pm, 3–3.45pm
Travel across the Caribbean Sea with traditional stories and songs of animal tricksters and magical shapeshifters.
Customise our global blanket
Mon 12 – Sun 18 Feb | 10.30am–12.45pm & 2–4.30pm
Bring cultures and languages from across the world to life by helping to build our truly one-of-a-kind multicultural and multilingual blanket.
Object handling
Mon 12 – Sun 18 Feb | 10.30am–12.45pm & 2–4.30pm
Touch, feel and examine objects from migrants and the museum’s collection. Get hands-on with coins and gaming tokens brought by Roman soldiers, marvel at clay pots from medieval France, and find out where modern technology was imported from.
Folktales and klezmer music
Tue 13 Feb | 11.00–3pm
Be transported to another world with immersive storytelling and dance along to lively klezmer music from three different performers.
Noah on the Earth 11–11.45am | Sign-up required on arrival
Zingt! Yiddish 1–1.30pm
Worlds Apart 2.30–3pm | Sign-up required on arrival
Tots at the Docks: Where in the world?
Wed 14 Feb | 10.30am–3pm
Pop along to our popular, free monthly toddler drop-in session – this time with a global theme to celebrate migration in London.
Share your migration story
Wed 14 Feb | 10.30am–4.30pm
Capture your own family's migration story for generations to come, with help from our friends at the Migration Museum.
Chilean and Polish migration stories
Wed 14 – Sun 18 Feb | 10.30am–4.30pm
Visit Felix Taylor's immersive sound art installation for a compelling journey around migration and belonging., drawn from the museum's oral history collection of Chilean and Polish voices.
All our activities are free and require no advance booking. Some popular workshops are first come, first served – please reserve your places with our families desk upon arrival.
Dates:
12 Feb 2024 - 18 Feb 2024
Time:
Varied times
Prices:
Free
Age:
All ages
There is a public car park behind the museum on Hertsmere Road.
Mudlarks interactive gallery - need to book ahead
Trails for under 5s
The café is open for snacks, drinks and hot beverages between 10am-4.30pm
Baby changing facilities available, the museum is fully accessible to buggy and wheelchair users
There is full physical access to all public areas of the museum, including galleries, classrooms, shop, café and theatre. If you have any requirements, please ask the Visitor Hosts at the Information Desk on arrival. The museum has original floorboards which are uneven in places