This Easter we're playing with mark-making and materials to turn drawing on its head! Come and get stuck in this spring with SEAson of Drawing activities for the whole family, inspired by the Van de ...

Mars is the nearest location where life could have evolved in our solar system beyond the Earth. We will begin our discussion on the prospects for life on Mars in the context of potential habitability ...

This World Oceans Day, the National Maritime Museum is excited to reveal four brand new digital artworks. Arts organisation The Collective Makers led an open call for new works in response to the ...

Can embracing the established canon interrupt history and maybe even change the future? Kehinde Wiley’s Ship of Fools is a striking oil painting hanging in the Queen's House. It depicts four people ...

Anywhere as rich with history as Greenwich probably also has a few skeletons in its closets - perhaps literally! From being the birthplace of Tudor royalty, including King Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, ...

Subscribe and listen to the Royal Observatory Greenwich's podcast Look Up! where our astronomers Jess and Catherine talk through some of November’s must-see cosmic objects. They'll also delve into ...

Welcome to CoderDojo at The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre! CoderDojo is a free coding club for young people aged 7-17 interested in programming. The monthly club will consist of 90 minutes ...

The ‘Vikings’ were seafaring raiders and traders from Scandinavia. The period known as the Viking Age lasted from AD 700 until 1100. ‘Viking’ was the name given to the seafarers from Norway, Denmark, ...

Concerns about who would succeed Queen Elizabeth I saw Parliament petition her to marry and produce an heir almost immediately. Early on in her reign, Queen Elizabeth I proclaimed that she would not ...

Justice, like life, was short, brutal and spectacular for pirates. Seamen and their families were very aware of the penalty for piracy. The publicity surrounding the trials and executions of pirates ...

Bubonic plague terrorised Europe for centuries. In 1665 a devastating epidemic struck this country killing thousands of people. Officially the ‘Great Plague’ killed 68,595 people in London that year.