The Time Traveller s. Passport YOUR PASSPORT TO A SUMMER OF EXPLORATION - -

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1 2014 The Time Traveller s AD Passport YOUR PASSPORT TO A SUMMER OF EXPLORATION

2 EXPLORE DISCOVER GROW Families can enjoy a summer of exploration with the Time Traveller s Passport The KM Group has teamed up with five of Kent s top attractions to bring you the Time Traveller s Passport. Children can bring their free passports with them as they visit each stop on the list: the Turner Contemporary in Margate; the Roman Museum in Canterbury, the PowellCotton Museum in Birchington; The Historic Dockyard Chatham and Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury. Whatever the weather, each venue has a host of fun activities and things to see and do, from arts and crafts to building a balloon car or staring down a lion or mummifying your favourite teddy. The passport is also available to download online.

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4 August Adventures Safari Survival Skills BUILD A SHELTER, STARE DOWN A LION, COLLECT WATER OR TRACK AN ANTELOPE......all in the Gardens of the PowellCotton Museum at Quex Park in Birchington. Major Percy PowellCotton faced many pitfalls and perils during his 50 years of exploring in Africa. In our Garden base camp you will hear Percy s stories of survival and pick up some useful hints for your next adventure. You will learn how to identify animals by the marks they leave behind, how to cross a river and how to survive encounters with potentially dangerous animals. Base camp is also the place where you will practice some potentially lifesaving activities. Your first challenge though is to find base camp! Percy made his own maps for the places he explored

5 Once you are there you will build a solar still to collect water, make rope, learn some simple knots, and build and test a prototype shelter. With this knowledge and these skills fresh in your mind you will face our trialsome trail. Follow Percy s map to come facetoface with your own challenges. Should you survive and return to base camp you will be rewarded with your Certificate of Adventuring. new photo coming... Garden Admission: Activities run from 11am to 2.30pm Tuesday Friday throughout August (plus Bank Holiday Mondays) and are suitable for children of all ages adults, 2.50 children up to 16, under 5s free (garden admission only) Percy PowellCotton made 26 expeditions and discovered over 50 species of animals TURN YOUR DAY INTO A REAL SAFARI Why not combine your safari survival skills adventure with a walking safari around the PowellCotton Museum to view the wildlife in our natural history collection and learn about the conservation threats they face in the wild in our Your Last Chance to See? exhibition which runs throughout July and August. Explorer stamp here: Museum, Quex House & Gardens Admission: Open 10am 5pm Tuesday to Sunday (plus Bank Holiday Mondays), 8.00 adults, 6.00 children up to 16, under 5s free. How to find us: PowellCotton Museum, Quex Park, Birchington, Kent CT7 0BH Nearest train station: BirchingtononSea. Enquiries: Website: Powell Cotton Museum is the Winner of the 2014 Museums and Heritage Culture Professionals Pick as the UK s most inspiring museum.

6 FREE ENTRY A SUMMER OF COLOUR This summer, Margate will be awash with colour... FREE ADMISSION Open Tuesday to Sunday and Bank Holidays 10am 6pm AD Turner Contemporary is showing works by twentiethcentury artist Piet Mondrian (Mondrian and Colour, until 21 September 2014), known for his grid paintings using just the colours red, yellow and blue, and contemporary artist Spencer Finch Piet Mondrian changed painting. He stopped showing the world as it appeared to the eye, and pioneered something completely new abstraction. Spencer Finch uses the science of colour to create artworks that play with light and colour Young artists in the making trying their hand at painting...

7 3 FREE ENTRY TRY IT YOURSELF... Piet Mondrian and Spencer Finch both use grids in their artwork. Spencer Finch s piece Back to Kansas uses only colours from the film The Wizard of Oz in a grid pattern. Piet Mondrian made grids using primary colours and black and white lines. Make your own colour grid below you could use colours from your favourite film like Spencer Finch, or make rules to follow like Mondrian: Be a part of Margate s Summer of Colour Margate has transformed into a festival of colour! Feel the joy of being by the sea in a colourful explosion of dance, performance, theatre, art and activity in the town and surrounding area of Thanet. Visit our Summer of Colour website to find out about exciting activities taking place near you summerofcolour.org. Share your Summer of Colour: #summerofcolour C facebook.com/summerofcolour Pinterest.com/summerofcolour w: turnercontemporary.org Families at Turner Contemporary Explorer stamp here: Credits: Piet Mondrian ( ) Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey and Blue, Oil on canvas, 95.7 x 95.1 cm. Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag2014 Mondrian/Holtzman Trust c/o HCR International USA. Spencer Finch, The Skies can t keep their secret, installation view at Turner Contemporary. Photo Manu Palomeque. Families at Turner Contemporary. Photo Benedict Johnson 49A

8 Family Fun all Summer long at The Historic Dockyard Chatham Families can do something different almost every day this summer at The Historic Dockyard Chatham. With tickets valid for 12 months, visitors can enjoy lots of new activities, clamber aboard three historic warships, enjoy 80 acres of fantastic maritime heritage, watch rope being made and enjoy both indoor and outdoor play areas. NEW FOR 2014 Doc Yard s Techslporers Fun and engaging engineering and technology activities. Particularly suitable for families with children aged 7 12, Doc Yard s Techsplorers will run every day throughout August in the aweinspiring surroundings of Slip 3, the building itself an impressive feat of engineering. This fabulous family fun is included within the annual ticket price of The Dockyard and will run at regular intervals throughout the day. Doc Yard, the dockyard s brilliant but slightly eccentric resident professor, together with his assistant Bunsen, will guide families through a series of handson practical activities, enabling them to discover the dockyard s technological and engineering past, which will bring a breath of fresh air to the science of sailing and flying. Families will build their own balloon car and race it against others on the track; design and make a kite, seeing how it catches the breeze and how high it will fly; and build dockyard structures out of K nex. Doc Yard s Techsplorers activities run every day from 1st31st August, suitable for 712 year olds and are included in the dockyard ticket price. NEW FOR 2014 Doc Yard s Techsplorers

9 PLAY DAYS Pirate Play Days runs from 26th July until 31st August and a small additional charge applies to the Sandpit Treasure Hunt From 26 July 31 August join Lady Killigrew as she recalls tales of treachery, deception and boundless riches. Children will learn how this little known pirate from our own shores became a formidable foe of the authorities and why Queen Elizabeth I threw her in the Tower of London! Not forgetting the younger visitors, swashbuckling fun for the family Pirate Play Days is back by popular demand... Children are given the chance to hear incredible stories of plundering piracy from the Dockyard pirates, participate in arts and crafts, then clamber across an inflatable obstacle course and dig for buried treasure in the Sandpit Treasure Hunt. Explorer stamp here:

10 597 For more details go to Did you know? FOR ENTRY AT CANTERBURY ROMAN MUSEUM (on presentation of this Passport) Explore the county this summer with this FREE Time Traveller s Passport and where better to start than the historic city of Canterbury with Canterbury Roman Museum. Open daily from 10am to 5pm Admission: 8 adults Children free to a maximum of 2 per paying adult Explorer stamp here: 49AD l Generations of building in Canterbury have raised the level of the city considerably since Roman times. l Excavations revealed ancient Roman fastfood shops on the site of the Beaney Canterbury Roman Museum provides a fascinating, family friendly insight into the city s history. Built around the remains of an original Roman town house in Butchery Lane, just off the High Street, visitors can travel back 100 years with each step as they descend to the original Roman street level. Don t forget to look out for the Roman dormice that guide you around the Roman streets, take a stroll through the marketplace, discover hidden treasure and even have your photograph taken with a Roman Centurion. There are also a host of handson activities including the chance to make your own magnetic mosaic and handle Roman artefacts.

11 For more details go to Just a short stroll from Canterbury Roman Museum lies the Beaney House of Art & Knowledge. Following a 14m restoration project, the revitalised Beaney now provides state of the art exhibition galleries alongside an extended library. The Beaney features more than 1,000 objects from various points in history, including a mummified cat and younger visitors are encouraged to have a go at mummifying their own cuddly toy. There are also a variety of explorer points for children and a packed programme of exhibitions, workshops and events for all ages. For full details download our What son guide at Did you know? AD Open from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Wednesday; 9am to 7pm on Thursday; 9am to 5pm on Friday & Saturday and 10am to 5pm on Sunday. Admission FREE One of the wooden griffins at the front of the Beaney was so badly damaged; it had to be completely recarved. l Much of the Beaney s exterior woodwork was destroyed by deathwatch beetle and had to be recarved. l The Beaney displays include over 1,000 objects 20% DISCOUNT IN THE BEANEY CAFE WITH THIS PASSPORT Explorer stamp here:

12 GET THIS PASSPORT STAMPED AT EVERY LOCATION FOR A CHANCE TO WIN AN ipad MINI Name: or Tel: SEND YOUR STAMPED PASSPORT TO TIME TRAVELLER S PASSPORT, KM MEDIA GROUP, MEDWAY HOUSE, SIR THOMAS LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, KENT ME2 4DU For full terms and conditions visit KentOnline.co.uk/terms