Campus in the City

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What is Campus in the City?

Spark your Curiosity - Campus in the City is back for 2025!


Join us for two FREE fun-packed days of hands-on activities, mind-blowing discoveries, and fascinating research from Lancaster University.

Fun for all the family this Easter school holidays, including:

  • Meet our brilliant researchers and spark your curiosity
  • Treat your teddy at the Teddy Bear Hospital
  • Crack a crime as a junior detective
  • Build a games console and explore eye-tracking games
  • Experience AI-powered Shadowplay and VR
  • Beatbox to see how your tongue works
  • Get creative with bubbles, clay and more!

Can't wait to see you there! Follow CITC on socials to be in the know.

When and where is it?

Friday 11 April - More Music, Morecambe

Saturday 12 April - The Storey and the Gregson Centre, Lancaster

10.30am to 4pm each day.

Under 16s must be accompanied by a responsible adult.

Re-live campus in the city 2024

Our exciting programme of activities for CITC 2025 will be launched shortly.

For now you can re-live all the best bits from CITC 2024 below!

Campus in the City 2024

Three days, four venues, more than 30 interactive activities bringing research to life and sparking the curiosity of nearly 1,000 visitors – campus in the city 2024 was a blast! From virtual reality experiences to extracting DNA from strawberries, using an ultrasound to see how your tongue works, to identifying teddy bear ailments with the medical school – relive it all here!

Marvelous! We came back the next day!

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CITC 2024 Gallery

Scroll through our gallery to see some images from each day of campus in the city in April 2024.

Where else was Campus in the City in 2024?

Lancaster University researchers popped up throughout the year at various events in and around Lancaster.

Connect with us

Follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram for our latest news and events and contact us at campusinthecity@lancaster.ac.uk with any questions.