{"id":1060,"date":"2013-10-28T11:36:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T11:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2014-07-10T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T11:06:20","slug":"magnificent-minerals-and-fossil-fun-for-families-at-worcester-city-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2013\/10\/magnificent-minerals-and-fossil-fun-for-families-at-worcester-city-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnificent Minerals and Fossil Fun for families at Worcester City Museum! 29 Oct &#8211; 01 Nov 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p align=\"justify\">Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust and Museums Worcestershire are working together with Eek Batik this half term to deliver a four<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>day Rock &amp; Fossil Roadshow of family fun for the <strong>BIG DRAW<\/strong> at Worcester City Museum &amp; Art Gallery.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Thanks to funding from \u2018Grants for the Arts\u2019 and \u2018The Heritage Lottery Fund\u2019, families can enjoy four days of <strong>free <\/strong>drop-in activities from Tuesday 29<sup>th<\/sup> October to Friday 1<sup>st<\/sup> November. \u00a0The sessions will run from 11am to 4pm each day.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Minerals make brilliant <strong>building stones!<\/strong> Come along and find out what makes a good stone for building, marvel at the magical colours of minerals under a special microscope and find out how you can tell all this from a very thin slice of rock. Touch rocks, minerals and fossils to discover how they were made. Make a fossil reincarnation<strong>,<\/strong> an imprint in clay or dig up a treasure to take home.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>On Tuesday and Wednesday, <\/strong>work in charcoal to draw fossils from the museum collection, create an erupting volcano and make a badge to take home.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>On Thursday and Friday<\/strong>\u2013 help Eek Batik create a giant geology banner by painting in wax and dye. Make a small batik to take home or turn it into a unique badge and draw the minerals that make rocks!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Come on down, it will be lots of fun for all the family!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, Foregate Street, Worcester WR1 1DT<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">www.museumsworcestershire.org.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostquarries@wordpress.com\">www.lostquarries@wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust and Museums Worcestershire are working together with Eek Batik this half term to deliver a four&#8211;day Rock &amp; Fossil Roadshow of family fun for the BIG DRAW at Worcester City Museum &amp; Art Gallery.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Thanks to funding from \u2018Grants for the Arts\u2019 and \u2018The Heritage Lottery [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}