RIDES: Experience a working crane on the dockside with trips inside the electric cranes and the Fairbairn steam crane, M Shed’s biggest exhibits!

LUNCHTIME TALK: To mark 100 years of women’s suffrage we have borrowed seven works by female artists from the Arts Council Collection, including video by Lucy Gunning and Rose Finn-Kelcey and paintings by Gillian Ayres and Rose Wylie

WALK: The history-packed walk highlights the landscape of early nineteenth-century Somerset.

FAMILY: Join Bristol Embroiderers’ Guild to make a stitched heart using an embroidery style called ‘chicken scratch’ on gingham.

WORKSHOP: Hands-on session exploring pyramids, pharaohs and mummification. Explore Egyptian artefacts, practice hieroglyphic writing and decorate a canopic jar, all inspired by our fantastic Egypt gallery.

WORKSHOP: Join us for a fun-filled day of African textile crafts. Investigate our collection of amazing African art, artifacts and fabrics and discover the meanings behind their colours and designs. Learning and having fun has never been so easy!

RIDES: Take a trip on the harbour on this 1935 diesel tug – built to tow cargo ships from Bristol City Docks to the mouth of the River Avon.

WORKSHOP: Budding palaeontologists can find out all about dinosaurs in this hands-on roar-some workshop. Meet the Bristol dinosaur, handle fossils, dress up and even make a fossil cast to take home.

WORKSHOP: Patterns, shapes and designs of every kind can be found all over the M Shed. Explore our galleries to develop your own perfect pattern. Learn and practice mono printing techniques before decorating a keepsake bag featuring your masterpiece.