From family fun to spooky visits of
some of the city’s most haunted places, visitors to Birmingham Museums will be
in for a treat, and trick, in October half term.
There will be spooky science activities
at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, and a chance to visit the museum after
hours, while Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery will be hosting a fun free Monster
Party for little ones who love to dress up.
Birmingham Museums Heritage Sites will
also be opening their doors for creepy crafts, ghost hunts and scary tales.
Here’s what you can’t miss this Halloween…
Monster Party at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Parents can take their little
mummies, witches and vampires along to enjoy a free Monster Party at Waterhall
at BMAG, on Wed 25th October from 2.00pm – 4.00pm. There will be
music, dancing and ghoulish games.
There will be lots of Halloween
fun throughout the week including gruesome object handling and a spooky
portrait studio to capture your costume in the portrait booth of fear.
For children who love to get
crafty, head to BMAG at the weekend (Sat 21st & Sun 22nd
October) for Fiendish Drawbots. Use art and technology to create your own
drawing robot, and get creative and turn your robot into your own spooktacular creature.
Spooky Science Week at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
At Thinktank, prepare for an evening
full of tricks and treats as the museum opens its doors after hours for a
Spooky Science Night on Saturday 28th October, 6 – 9pm. With a full evening of spellbinding
fun planned, children can get dressed as their favourite creature and take part
in eerie experiments, a science of fright show, and meet some real life creepy
crawlies with an expert animal handler. Head along in fancy dress to be entered
into a fantastic prize draw on the night!
Hair-raising Heritage Sites
Visit the Birmingham Museums’ Heritage Sites
throughout half term for hair-raising fun, including Aston Hall’oween at Aston
Hall where you can see the Hall transformed into a haunted mansion from Friday 27th
– Sunday 29th October 2017.
Visitors will also be able to learn all about
the great plague at Blakesley Hall, and find out about all the medicines the doctor
would have used to treat those who were struck down by the bubonic plague.
There will be special themed trails, quizzes and fascinating facts.
Spooky spiders, skeletons and ghosts are also
set to move into Sarehole Mill. Take part in the Haunting Halloween Trail and find
each of the creepy ghouls and solve the clues to claim a prize.
And at Soho House, the doors of the spooky
cellars of the historic Georgian property will be opened for a family-friendly
Halloween tour. Do you dare to take the tour? Taking place from 25th
– 26th October.
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