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The edge of a shiny blue and black wing is centred in the lens of a microscope

Spring Break: Microscopic Exploration

Explore the world of all things tiny! We’ll use microscopes and magnifiers to look at amazing tiny creatures that have a big impact.

A barn owl soars with wings spread wide, it has a leash dangling from its hind feet.

Spring Break: Animal Gliders

Build paper animal gliders! We’ll celebrate the amazing animals that fly or glide and we’ll touch and observe beautiful wing specimens.

A visitor-created exhibit label about a turtle is posted beside a museum display with a hawksbill sea turtle.

Spring Break: Create a Museum Label!

With the help of museum staff and volunteers, you’ll get to write, draw, and display your own creations in the museum for everyone to enjoy!

A child in a red sweatshirt sketches on an easel. He is looking at a taxidermied common loon.

Spring Break: Drawing Studio

Get inspired to draw from amazing museum specimens with the help of Derek, the Manager of Exhibitions and the illustrator behind many exhibits in the museum.

A visitor sketches a butterfly in a sketchbook.

Spring Break: Adaptation Exploration

Learn about some fascinating animal adaptations and combine your favourites to make your own super creature!

A round, beige, carrier snail that has smaller beige shells of different shapes and sizes attached to it's shell margins

Spring Break: Super Snails 

In this activity, learn all about the wondrous adaptations of carrier snails and cone snails. You can even take a look at our snail specimens and decorate your own snail craft!

A young boy in a red shirt gazes upwards at the blue whale skeleton

Spring Break: Surprise Activity!

Join us for a surprise activity hosted by our museum team!

Spring Break: Mushroom Mural

Spring Break: Mushroom Mural

Learn about all kinds of mushrooms and other fungi. From the edible to the deadly, and from decomposers to parasites, fungi come in many fantastic forms.

Three paper-plate crafts. Each has been turned into a round "window" where you can see different biodiversity images and illustrations.

Spring Break: Window into Underwater Biodiversity

This activity gives you the opportunity to craft your own ‘window into underwater biodiversity’ to look through and take home.

A close up of an Emperor Penguin's face, it has a yellow patch behind the eye, on the bottom of the bill, and the top of the chest.

Spring Break: Meet the Penguins

You’ll learn about warm and cold water penguins, and get up close to real penguin specimens under the whale!