What do you collect? The Deaf Academy: Deaf technology through the ages

Charmaine Watkiss's new commission responds to the museum's West African collection with a watercolour, a mask and a double portrait, exploring Caribbean healing traditions and the diaspora. For fans of contemporary art.

Paintings and prints by young people from the Deaf Academy and 100 Club Youth Centre, made in workshops with artists Vicky Barber-Crimes and Octavia Madden. For visitors interested in youth art and Deaf culture.

A gallery handling session with the museum's Roman collection, uncovering the story of Isca through objects. For history fans who want to see and handle real artefacts up close.

Hands-on music sessions for under-5s and the adults with them, playing instruments and learning songs from a different continent in each block. Led by a teacher with an ethnomusicology degree, for families with young children.

Visiting speaker Dr Betty Rosen explores 13th-century Arabic poetry from Cairo and Damascus by hearing it as performance, for anyone interested in Arabic literature and cultural history.