What’s on in February
No matter where you are, you’re just a click away from participating and learning with these top-class activities!
by David Tysoe // February 5th, 2022
Learning shouldn’t just be confined to the classroom. Encouraging your children and students to engage with knowledge and activities outside of school is absolutely vital to their growth and development. Fortunately many of the world’s best museums and institutions have put together programmes that appeal to parents and students alike. And best of all, many of them are online and completely free!
Here are our top picks for February’s online learning events:
Young Portrait Explorers – Smithsonian Portrait Gallery (8th February)
An online workshop for children ages 3-6 and their adult companions. a 30-minute program that incorporates close looking at art, movement and art-making.
Remarkable Reptiles – Smithsonian National Zoo (8th February)
Using tongues to smell, scales and regrowing tails. Learn what makes a reptile remarkable and meet a couple of reptiles that call the Zoo home.
Soar Together – Air and Space Museum (10th and 11th February)
How did science fiction inspire air and space inventions we see in use today and in our everyday lives? Explore this question, from the way we communicate and connect with one another, or explore our planet and others!
Christopher Wren’s Cosmos – Gresham College Lecture (22nd February)
Sir Christopher Wren was one of the most remarkable Gresham Professors of Astronomy. Though best known today as the architectural mastermind behind the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire, Wren’s appointment to the Gresham chair in 1657 stemmed from his enthusiasm for turning his gaze well above London’s skyline and focussing his attention on the heavens above.
This lecture will consider Wren’s contributions to astronomy and how Wren’s appreciation of and contributions to art and design, and science and engineering, were fully integrated in his life and made him a polymath on a par with Leonardo da Vinci.
Migration in British Science – Science Museum (22nd February)
A virtual event in honour of the 75th anniversary of the NHS; Examining and celebrating the impact of migration on the NHS, medicine, and the advancement of scientific research in the UK.
Virtual Discoveries—Year of the Rabbit – The Met (26th February)
A virtual workshop to talk about and make art! Designed for individuals with learning and developmental disabilities and those on the autism spectrum.
We hope that you and your family enjoy these online learning events and activities. If you have any recommendations for future events that we could include, feel free to comment, email or contact us on social media.
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