BedPop Science Lab
Saturday 7th March, 10am – 5pm, Free Entry
Discover your inner scientist at Bedpop Science Lab with a day of FREE hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activities for families to enjoy.
There's exciting BSL friendly demonstrations, chemical curiosities, environmental engineering challenges, hybrid air vehicles, stomp rockets, and geology. Other activities include building superstructures, becoming pond detectives, looking at microbes under microscopes and creating paper planes, balloon helicopters and air powered model cars to fly.
Activities will also take place at the Panacea Museum, John Bunyan Museum, Basement @ Bunyan, Bedford Central Library, as well as The Higgins Bedford.
Download the brochure here.
View the full programme of the day here.
Dreams and Nightmares Gallery Tour
Wednesday 4th March, 12pm – 12:30pm
£3, £2.50 for concessions - Booking Essential
Take a lunchtime tour of Dreams and Nightmares before the exhibition closes on 22nd March. Don't miss this opportunity to gain more insight into the artworks on display from spiritual visions, spectral images, fairies, witches and romantic dreams. Highlights include works by William Blake, J.M.W Turner, Pablo Picasso and Edward Bawden.
Image: William Blake (1757–1827) – The Good and Evil Angels Struggling for Possession of a Child c.1793 © Cecil Higgins Art Gallery Collection
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Fine and Decorative Art Tour
Thursday 5th March, 11:30am – 12:30pm
£6.10, £4.90 for concessions - Booking Essential
Explore the internationally renowned Cecil Higgins Art Gallery Collection. Highlights include painted furniture by William Burges, linocuts by Edward Bawden and Victorian jewellery collected by Anne Hull Grundy.
Image: Léon-Victor Solon (1873-1957) Tile, designed for Minton, about 1901 © Cecil Higgins Art Gallery Collection
To book your place for these tours, please use our online booking system. Enter promotional code HIGGINS22 to remove the booking fee. Alternatively, you can telephone 01234 718044 or visit Bedford Central Box Office at Harpur Suite, Harpur Square, Bedford, MK40 1LE.
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