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Bristol families line up for hands-on summer sessions at harbourside venues during the school holidays.

By Bristol Things-to-do Desk · Published 25 July 2026

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Bristol families have booked more than 4,200 places for July activity sessions at two harbourside attractions since the listings opened on 1 July.

School term ends across the city on 17 July, prompting parents to secure spots at venues that run daily programmes rather than wait for last-minute options.

Harbourside sessions

We The Curious on Millennium Square offers daily 90-minute workshops on marine life and simple engineering tasks aimed at ages five to 11. Sessions run at 10am and 2pm with places limited to 30 children each. The M Shed on Princes Wharf runs a parallel timetable of model-boat building and oral-history recording for the same age group, with free entry for accompanying adults.

Both sites sit within a ten-minute walk of each other, allowing parents to combine a morning slot at one with an afternoon at the other without extra travel costs.

Practical details

A single child ticket at We The Curious costs £9.50 for the workshop and includes entry to the main galleries for the rest of the day. The M Shed workshops are free but require advance registration through the museum website. Last year the two venues together recorded 11,800 child participants across the summer period.

Parents can check remaining spaces on the venues’ booking pages or by calling the We The Curious desk on 0117 915 1000 before heading to the harbourside. Slots for the week beginning 20 July open for booking on 13 July at 9am.

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