Develope your knowledge at Banbury Museum!
Oxfordshire
New Museum in attractive canal side locationwith exciting displays. Resource Room, Cafe.
The Museum for Dorset!
Dorset
Museum and Arts and Crafts Centre!
Berwickshire
Cottage Tearoom and Crafthouse Gallery. Small children's play area and picnic site. A variety of walks through the grounds of the Estate.
Local stories bringing local history to life
Essex
Medicine changed the world!
A great family day out!
Yorkshire
Fun activities galore!
We offer many fun activities
Hertfordshire
All weather 5 star attraction
All weather, multi-award-winning Five-Star visitor attraction.
Angus
European Industrial Museum of the Year Winner. Original working machinery. Computer displays and hands-on interactive Juteopolis film show.
Open - rain or shine!
Exciting all-weather family visitor attraction.
Shropshire
Regular hands-on animal activities, two massive indoor playbarns, lots of outdoor play and driving activities. Museums, tea-rooms & gift shop.
Museum
Inverness-shire
Here you actually enter the World of the Highlander and experience walking through a number of 'time windows' dating from the early 18th century.
Great Day out for families! & FREE
For a fantastic free day out with railway legends, daily demonstrations and interactive exhibits visit the National Railway Museum in York.
Farming and domestic memorabilia, from the rural community that was Dalgarven.
Ayrshire
Regularly changing display of vintage costumes from the museum's 1,000 or more collection.
Come and explore the wreck of the Warship Anne!
Sussex
Warship Anne is the best known surviving vessel from Samuel Pepys’ Restoration Navy. Travel back to 1749!
Warwickshire
Another days out idea for kids in Inverness!
Explore our lively "Man in the Landscape" exhibition and our Discovery Centre, both on the ground floor and much more. Gift shop.
Kent
Trace the fascinating history of Wiltshire.
Wiltshire
Learn about Wiltshire and its environment and its people over the last 6,000 years. Collections from Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site.
Lots to see here!
Roxburghshire
See aerial photographs; artists' drawings; models; maps; the Newstead charger - to ride; a blacksmith's workshop; a Roman kitchen and pottery.
Free entry attraction for families at Irchester Country Park
Northamptonshire
Imagine an open-air museum inside a massive modern building!
Hampshire
A network of streets with shops, a village green and even a pub... dating from Victorian times and the 1930s!
Explore military history in Gloucester
Gloucestershire
Lot of things to do for kids here.
Nottinghamshire
This great museum focuses on the rich natural heritage of North Essex.
Hands on displays plus churchyard Nature Reserve and well stocked shop. Excellent School sessions.
Regular events and shows at this great Transport Museum in Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire
Dramatic displays, working exhibits and DVD presentations trace the history of travel and transport in the North East of Scotland in our Aberdeenshire Museum.
Ghost tours. School visits.
Brighton
A wonderful atmosphere of Edwardian living in the home of the Stanford family for over 130 years.
Learn about the history of Norwich!
Norfolk
Chester's family friendly museum.
Cheshire
Great air museum that kids will love!
Somerset
Excellent air museum for all the family with many historic aircraft, activities and museum. Events throughout the year.
Enjoy an exciting ride on the Steam train.
Leicestershire
All aboard for an exciting journey into history! Ride a steam train and visit the museum, plenty for the whole family to enjoy.
School trips too!
Home of the Codebreakers - children under 12 free
Buckinghamshire
A great day out for all the family!
Carmarthenshire
Families can have fun following the specially designed trail, 'A Woolly Tale', trying their hand at carding, spinning and sewing along the way.
Good Museum!
Wigtownshire
An exhibition about the history of Creetown. Historical photographs, audio and video presentations, local arts & crafts.
Great place to visit!
A motoring journey through the 20th century
Wonderful collections of cars, motorcycles, caravans and a huge toy collection of pedal cars & models.
Dolls House Museum
Designed as a place to bring the whole family, Maple Street is the largest Dolls House and Miniature Shop in Europe.
Bringing the age of steam to life
A must visit - why?
Where children play to learn and grown-ups learn to play...
A great visit!
Over 100 aircraft on display. Free entry!
Make discovering history fun by using interactive displays, visiting our interactive centre, having a ride on a simulator and much more!
Historical fun for all the family!
Worcestershire
Small Museum of Teddy Bears!
The Dorset Teddy Bear Museum.
Have a great Kids Day Out at Dorchester's unmissable family museum, plus Teddy Bear House, a unique family house with people sized bears.
The Higgins, Bedford - come and visit
Bedfordshire
Visit our transformed Museum and art gallery - something for everyone.
The museum is set in parkland
Displays exhibits relating to Northampton's varied history including, military history, 19-century fashion gallery and leathercraft gallery.
Fun and educational day out!
Guided Underground tours at Scotland's only lead-mining museum in Scotland's highest village.
Dumfriesshire
Gold Panning in July and August. Educational & school visits, Interactive displays. Beam Engine. Gift shop, cafe.
Have a great day out here with your kids.
Small museum in Riverside setting with good collection of historical items. Regular events.
Dumfries Museum is centred around the eighteenth century windmill.
You will see fossil footprints left by prehistoric reptiles, the Wildlife of the Solway marshes, tools and weapons of the earliest peoples of the region.
Travel back in time to Roman Canterbury
Family-friendly activities all year round at this popular community museum!
Packed full of inspiring art, fascinating social history and fun interactive gadgets. School groups welcome with prior bookings. School Holiday Workshops
Explore this historical museum!
Dumfries & Galloway
Good Museum - Take a look at varied items from the past with lots of interesting displays.
Orkney
The museum has an extensive and varied collection of domestic and defence wireless equipment.
Enjoy 300 years of history through hands-on exhibits and displays.
Discover what family life was like. Interesting Schools sessions - dress up in Victorian Costumes.
Take a trip to this family friendly museum in Matlock
Derbyshire
WOW - Take a look at this!
Home to a variety of animals!
Pembrokeshire
Perfect for fans of fire engines!
Lincolnshire
Eastnor Castle.
Herefordshire
This is one of England's most beautiful castles. Knight's Maze and Children's Assault Course. Adventure Playground.
Explore the history of West Berkshire!
Berkshire
Take a peek into local industries!
Come and Learn at the Lichfield Heritage Centre!
Staffordshire
2000 years of history with some great displays, mouse-hole trails and more!
Just another idea for a day out with your kids.
Tyne and Wear
This museum combines the excavated remains of the fort with spectacular reconstructions and exciting, hands-on museum displays.
Surely Scotland’s grandest castle set on it's magnificent volcanic rock.
Stirlingshire
With historical displays, recreation of the 16th century kitchens, Regimental Museum of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
Foxton Canal Museum was opened in 1989.
Foxton Canal Museum is situated in the reconstructed Boiler House of the lift. It tells the story of the lift and canals it served for the public.
Sutherland
Good Museum - Relating the history of the Royal Burgh of Dornoch, interpretive displays and items illustrating the town’s history.
Lots here to see with regular events for the whole family.
This is the exciting story of the Corps of Royal Engineers. see their innovation & creativity including tanks, torpedoes, bridges.
Have fun seeing the evolution of computing & our UK digital history!
Lots of hands-on working exhibits: try vintage games in our ‘Pong to Playstation’ Zone with Pong, Pacman, and more. School visits.
The museum tells the story of childhood in the Highlands
Ross and Cromarty
Learn about childhood amongst hardworking crofters and townsfolk, where money and luxuries were scarce and life followed the rhythm of the seasons.
Killhope is a fully restored 19th century lead mine.
County Durham
You experience the life and work of the local lead mining families. Huge working waterwheel.
A great day out for all the family whatever the weather.
Butterflies, Theme Gardens, Museums and Exotic animal rescue centre, cafe, play and picnic area.
Verulamium Museum
Museum of Roman Britain with lots of interesting exhibits including mosaics.
Another one of our days out with the kids.
Lanarkshire
Special Events: Spring into Easter, April 4. Classic Cars May 2, on our 1950s working farm with dairy cows, sheep, pigs, and much more!
This heritage centre is a must!
Glamorgan
The museum which creates historic Welsh life is also making gardens for the many old re-erected buildings. Also excellent formal gardens.
Award winning museum.
Featuring many hands-on displays showing Colchester's history from the Stone Age to the Civil War.
Plenty of special features for children!
Learn about fossils that transform into dinosaurs, prehistoric crocodiles and fish, a diorama of local animals and birds and much more!
Educational and interesting!
This child friendly Museum is a great place to learn of the history of Evesham
Make learning fun!
An educational and fun place to visit!
Lots of things to see and do here. Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre holds an interesting collection telling the history and story of Chippenham past and present.
Mums & Dads will love this too!
Aviation and motor-sport museum!
Surrey
Lots of family activities, hands-on-discovery centre. Much more to see than you can imagine. Tea room and gift shop.
Something for everyone!
One of our ideas for things to do for the family.
Discover the American way of life from colonial times, the joys and hardships of American children. Set in 30 acres of beautiful parkland.
A gem of a Museum
Country Life Museum
Perthshire
Unique collection of information, photographs and artefacts from the local area & people which ties in to stories and displays of how their use.
Lots of school holiday activities at this historic castle
Normal admission rules apply.
Kincardineshire
Find out about 19th century tartans, Royal commemorative china and the life of local musician and composer, J. Scott Skinner.
For high drama and explosive action.
Fort Nelson’s the place to visit! Enjoy large-scale historical battle re-enactments, exciting hands-on children’s holiday activities.
Enjoy a great family day out.
Isle of Wight
This is one of the finest Romano-British archaeological sites in the UK. Our award-winning Exhibition and Visitor Centre offers a unique insight into Roman life in Britain.
Have fun dressing up in combat jackets and helmets!
London
Go behind the scenes at this living museum. Watch troopers working with their horses. Craft activities and story-telling sessions over the summer.
Interactive family fun!
Northumberland
The huge, 7½ acre site has five historic buildings
Manchester
Enjoy the fascinating exhibitions, hands-on galleries, historic working machinery and superb special exhibitions. Cafe. Shop. School trips.
Popular with schools. Full programme of family events.
Indoor for Kids -Set in an old woollen mill the Museum tells the story of its past, as well as hosing many other exhibits.
Come and explore the Dunbeath Heritage Centre!
Caithness
This small museum is well worth a visit with good displays from the history of the area.
Helicopters!
All year award winning attraction with more than 70 aircraft. Adventure and picnic area. Helicopter rides. Coffee shop with hot meals.
Enjoy the interesting Hereford Museum and Art!
The museum is full of interesting local history with hands-on elements for all the family.
Discover farming through the ages
Cambridgeshire
Discover farming through the ages and learn about the rural history of Cambridgeshire with objects displays and interactives for all ages.
Check this out!
The largest independent air museum in Britain with plenty of things to do for kids!
Over 50 historic aircraft including Tornado GR4, Spitfire & the rarely-seen Nimrod MR2. Large range of military vehicles.
Family Fun at Tudor World
Educational and Exciting!
Horrible History!
Inspiring Tales of Justice
You must take a look!
Amazing aircraft collection!
A great attraction for your days out in Merseyside.
Merseyside
This Museum tells the history of one of the world's greatest ports and the people who used it.
Award Winning Museum
Interactive areas throughout our family!
Friendly museum allow all ages to get involved. Regular junior workshops, family events and a range of activities!
Enjoy and explore!
Take a look!
Britain’s original dinosaurs museum.
Award-winning museum in Dorset on your kids days out - fossils, skeletons and life-sized dinosaur reconstructions with multimedia and hands on displays.
Plenty of things to do here.
Discover the chequered history of Newcastle upon Tyne, from Romans and Knights to ship-builders and pitmen.
More than you can imagine!
Filled with fun exhibitions, 3 cinemas inc. IMAX (charges apply) and galleries!
The National Media Museum is a FREE fun day out for the whole family devoted to film, photos, TV, radio & the web. Restaurant, Cafe.
A train lover's paradise!
Full 'Steam' ahead for a great day out in Swindon
STEAM is an interactive, hands-on history of the people & locomotives who built & operated the Great Western Railway. Cafeteria.
A family-run museum!
Looking at life in Orkney at the time of the Stone Age and Bronze Age. An opportunity to handle Neolithic artefacts.
Kirkcudbrightshire
Fine private collections of gemstones, crystals, minerals, rocks and fossils in Great Britain.
A beautifully restored building which explores the town’s turbulent early history.
Roxburgh
We also host a variety of temporary displays and activities suitable for all the family. Audio tours, tourist information, gifts & souvenirs.
Ideal for schools!
There is always something fun to do at the Museum of Farnham!
It is a great place to spend a rainy day or have a picnic in the garden when the weather is fine. Monthly Museum club. School visits.
With its entertaining & creative workshops, friendly interactive galleries & an outdoor Story Garden, The Bowes Museum is first choice for family fun.
Climb the tower!
Learn more about the remains of Guildford Castle
A great Aircraft attraction for all the family.
If you like aircraft this is the place for you with over 30 aircraft and plenty more to see.
See a recreated ironmonger's shop.
Selkirkshire
Other lively displays relate to the history of the building and to Selkirk. Video and audio-tape programmes are available.
Stockwood Discovery Centre - A great place to take the kids and free!
Lots for kids to see and find out about at this 900 year old Cathedral
A wonderful day out!
Acres of award winning family fun
Devon
Enjoy the Cultural New Walk Museum and Art Gallery!
Leicester's oldest museum has wide-ranging collections spanning the natural and cultural world, special discover area for 2s to 8s.
An amazing day out!
The Haynes Motor Museum in Somerset is a great Kids Days Out
A great day out!
Anglesey
Find out about crime and punishment in Beaumaris Gaol, see the spartan cells and unique treadwheel.
