Museum Detectives Family Trail
Term-time only (Tuesday 14 April to Friday 22 May) | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum
Visit in 2026 and become a museum detective at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum!
Eight items on display have been highlighted, can you find them all? You’ll be able to draw and label what you find on your trail sheet.
£1, purchase your trail from the Art Gallery and Museum shop.
Free entry to the Art Gallery and Museum (closed Mondays). Plan your visit.
Family Trail | Secret Gardens
Saturday 28 March – Sunday 12 April (closed Mondays and bank holidays) | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum
Explore the Art Gallery and Museum with your Secret Garden Map!
Find all kinds of characters – from frogs and insects to fairies and gnomes – and match them up with their hiding places on the map.
£1, purchase your trail from the Art Gallery and Museum shop.
Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am – 4pm, and Sunday 10am – 3pm.
Free entry to the Art Gallery and Museum (closed Mondays). Plan your visit.
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Bags of Fun | Secret Gardens, £2.50 – Saturday 28 March – Sunday 12 April (closed Mondays and bank holidays)
Get Arty: Secret Gardens, £5.50 – Thursday 2 April and Thursday 9 April 2026, 10.30 – 11.30am
Bags of Fun | Secret Gardens
Saturday 28 March – Sunday 12 April (closed Mondays and bank holidays) | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum
Bags of Fun are back for the Easter holidays! They’re filled with brilliant activities all about secret gardens… what will you create?
- Create a garden drawing and use a split pin to turn the sky from day to night
- Design a paper plate rainbow hanging decoration
- Make mini puppets of fairies, gnomes, and frogs
- Decorate a butterfly mask
The Art Gallery and Museum is fully equipped for young creatives to get going on their making. Each activity bag has multiple themed activities inside along with colouring and puzzle sheets.
£2.50, purchase your activity bags from the Art Gallery and Museum shop.
Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am – 4pm, and Sunday 10am – 3pm.
Free entry to the Art Gallery and Museum (closed Mondays). Plan your visit.
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Family Trail | Secret Gardens, £1 – Saturday 28 March – Sunday 12 April (closed Mondays and bank holidays)
Get Arty: Secret Gardens, £5.50 – Thursday 2 April and Thursday 9 April 2026, 10.30 – 11.30am
Family Fun | Get Arty: Secret Gardens
Thursday 2 April and Thursday 9 April 2026, 10.30 – 11.30am | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum
Come and get arty in the Easter holidays at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum!
Imagine discovering a secret garden… what would you find in it?
In this fun creative session, make your very own secret garden – create the house, collage some grass and a pond, make lolly-stick fences, and make bunting to decorate it! You can even mould some clay toadstools to make your secret garden extra magical.
Get Arty is on: Thursday 2 April and Thursday 9 April, 10.30 – 11.30am.
£5.50 per child; please book via the link below. A parent or carer must stay during the session. Free entry to the Art Gallery and Museum.
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Bags of Fun | Secret Gardens, £2.50 – Saturday 28 March – Sunday 12 April (closed Mondays and bank holidays)
Family Trail | Secret Gardens, £1 – Saturday 28 March – Sunday 12 April (closed Mondays and bank holidays)
Spring Makers’ Fair at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum
Saturday 9 May 2026, 10am – 4pm | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum
Enjoy browsing a range of stalls dotted around the Art Gallery and Museum offering a broad selection of unique and exquisite gift opportunities your loved ones – or yourself!
Little Al’s Café at the Balcony will be open for drinks and homemade food, and you can visit exhibition John Singer Sargent: an American in Worcestershire (tickets are required for this exhibition) while you’re here.
Free entry. Plan your visit to Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum.
Would you like a stall?
We’d love to hear from you! Get in touch with event organiser Tracey Ayre at tracey.ayre@worcester.gov.uk.
Family Trail | Egg-splorers: Dino Discovery Trail
Saturday 14 February – Sunday 22 February 2026 (closed Mondays) | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum
This February half-term holiday is perfectly prehistoric!🦕
Follow a fun family trail and become a dino detective. Search for 8 hidden eggs around the museum as you reveal the dinosaurs hidden inside each mysterious egg… what will you find?🪺
£1, purchase your trail from the Art Gallery and Museum shop.
Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am – 4pm, and Sunday 10am – 3pm.
Free entry to the Art Gallery and Museum (closed Mondays). Plan your visit.
More dino fun in February:
Get Arty: Roar-some Makes – Saturday 14, Wednesday 18, Friday 20 February, 10.30 – 11.30am. Find out more.
Roar-some Bags of Fun – Saturday 14 February – Sunday 22 February 2026 (closed Mondays), £2.50. Find out more.
Family Fun | Get Arty: Roar-some Makes
Saturday 14, Wednesday 18, Friday 20 February 2026, 10.30 – 11.30am | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum
Come and get arty this February half-term holiday at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum!
Children will be able to make a roar-some clay creation – will it be a dino egg, footprint or a fossil?🦖
To go with it, make a fantastic prehistoric companion to take home, a 3D cardboard dinosaur.
And design collagraph prints inspired by dinosaurs and fossils too!
Get Arty is on: Saturday 14 February, Wednesday 18 February, Friday 20 February at 10.30 – 11.30am.
£5.50 per child. A parent or carer must stay during the session. Free entry to the Art Gallery and Museum.
More dino fun in February:
Family Trail | Egg-splorers: Dino Discovery Trail – Saturday 14 February – Sunday 22 February 2026 (closed Mondays), £1. Find out more.
Roar-some Bags of Fun – Saturday 14 February – Sunday 22 February 2026 (closed Mondays), £2.50. Find out more.
Family Mornings | Spectacular Space!
Tuesday 17, Wednesday 18, Thursday 19 February 2026, 10.30 – 12noon
Go out of this world in a fun galactic stay and play family morning in the February half-term holiday!
Children can design their very own astronaut mask, create moving rocket pictures, and paint the planets with balloons. Get hands-on with space-themed messy play trays too! 🚀
Family mornings end with a drink, a biscuit and a story.
Suitable for children pre-school age to 11 years old.
£5.50 per child + general admission. General admission applies to all visitors and can be purchased online or on the day of your visit.
Pikelets: Tots Through Time (early years sessions)
Wednesdays in term time, 10.15 – 11.45am | The Commandery
Pikelets: Tots Through Time is The Commandery’s first early years programme designed to encourage little ones to explore, play and learn.
Each week, the session will take place in a new area of the museum and gardens, with the activities tailored to the space. Be a shape detective in the Great Hall, join in a tea party in the Georgian rooms, take part in sensory scavenger hunts in the beautiful walled gardens and much more. 🌻
Pikelets: Tots Through Time has been carefully designed for crawlers to pre-school children, with fun activities each week to help develop fine motor skills, counting, play-based learning and creative thinking – all within The Commandery’s unique museum setting.
Sessions end with drink, biscuit and a story.
Facilities include a baby change, lift access, and onsite café Little Al’s at The Commandery, all in a convenient city centre location (WR1 2HU) with parking nearby. Pikelets takes place in term time only, so there is no session on Wednesday 18 February.
£5 per child (£2.50 per additional sibling).
If you wish to visit the museum after the session, you can enjoy a 50% discount on day admission (£4.50 for adult day ticket instead of £9).
Living History 2026
All day, Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 February 2026 | The Commandery
Come face to face with the past at The Commandery’s biggest weekend of the year! ⚔️
Explore living history encampments and watch marvellous military displays at Worcester’s historic Commandery.
The site will be alive with performances by musicians and dancers, and you can learn about traditional crafts too.
Encounter reenactors throughout the beautiful Grade-1 listed building and gardens, where they’ll be demonstrating and displaying historical weaponry.
A full schedule will be available before the event.
Living History 2026 is organised in partnership with The Worcester Re-enactors.
Plan your visit
Opening hours
- Saturday 21 February, 10am – 5pm (last entry 4pm)
- Sunday 22 February, 10am – 4pm (last entry 3pm)
Admission
Usual admission applies; free admission to those with a season or residents’ pass. Find out more.
Advance booking is not essential, you can just turn up, pay in the shop, and enjoy!
While you’re here…
See how many things you can tick off The Commandery’s top 10 highlights list!