Warwickshire
Normal admission rules apply.
Wiltshire
You must take a look!
Amazing aircraft collection!
Shropshire
Explore the history of West Berkshire!
Berkshire
Foxton Canal Museum was opened in 1989.
Leicestershire
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.
Enjoy an exciting ride on the Steam train.
All aboard for an exciting journey into history! Ride a steam train and visit the museum, plenty for the whole family to enjoy.
Dumfries Museum is centred around the eighteenth century windmill.
Dumfriesshire
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.
Ideal for schools!
There is always something fun to do at the Museum of Farnham!
Surrey
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.
Historical fun for all the family!
Worcestershire
Free entry attraction for families at Irchester Country Park
Northamptonshire
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.
Take a trip to this family friendly museum in Matlock
Derbyshire
Mums & Dads will love this too!
Aviation and motor-sport museum!
Lots of family activities, hands-on-discovery centre. Much more to see than you can imagine. Tea room and gift shop.
A great Aircraft attraction for all the family.
Tyne and Wear
If you like aircraft this is the place for you with over 30 aircraft and plenty more to see.
Learn about the history of Norwich!
Norfolk
A great day out for all the family!
County Durham
With its entertaining & creative workshops, friendly interactive galleries & an outdoor Story Garden, The Bowes Museum is first choice for family fun.
Carmarthenshire
Families can have fun following the specially designed trail, 'A Woolly Tale', trying their hand at carding, spinning and sewing along the way.
An amazing day out!
The Haynes Motor Museum in Somerset is a great Kids Days Out
Somerset
Lot of things to do for kids here.
Nottinghamshire
Stockwood Discovery Centre - A great place to take the kids and free!
Bedfordshire
Helicopters!
All year award winning attraction with more than 70 aircraft. Adventure and picnic area. Helicopter rides. Coffee shop with hot meals.
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.
Develope your knowledge at Banbury Museum!
Oxfordshire
New Museum in attractive canal side locationwith exciting displays. Resource Room, Cafe.
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.
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!
Lots here to see with regular events for the whole family.
Kent
This is the exciting story of the Corps of Royal Engineers. see their innovation & creativity including tanks, torpedoes, bridges.
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.
Take a peek into local industries!
Fun and educational day out!
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!
Take a look!
Britain’s original dinosaurs museum.
Dorset
Award-winning museum in Dorset on your kids days out - fossils, skeletons and life-sized dinosaur reconstructions with multimedia and hands on displays.
Enjoy 300 years of history through hands-on exhibits and displays.
Essex
Discover what family life was like. Interesting Schools sessions - dress up in Victorian Costumes.
Explore this historical museum!
Sutherland
Good Museum - Relating the history of the Royal Burgh of Dornoch, interpretive displays and items illustrating the town’s history.
The Museum for Dorset!
Dolls House Museum
Hertfordshire
Designed as a place to bring the whole family, Maple Street is the largest Dolls House and Miniature Shop in Europe.
Perfect for fans of fire engines!
Lincolnshire
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.
Award winning museum.
Featuring many hands-on displays showing Colchester's history from the Stone Age to the Civil War.
Kirkcudbrightshire
Fine private collections of gemstones, crystals, minerals, rocks and fossils in Great Britain.
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.
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.
Educational and Exciting!
Gloucestershire
Ghost tours. School visits.
Brighton
A wonderful atmosphere of Edwardian living in the home of the Stanford family for over 130 years.
Medicine changed the world!
A great family day out!
Yorkshire
Explore military history in Gloucester
A wonderful day out!
Acres of award winning family fun
Devon
Just another idea for a day out with your kids.
This museum combines the excavated remains of the fort with spectacular reconstructions and exciting, hands-on museum displays.
Come and Learn at the Lichfield Heritage Centre!
Staffordshire
2000 years of history with some great displays, mouse-hole trails and more!
Plenty of things to do here.
Discover the chequered history of Newcastle upon Tyne, from Romans and Knights to ship-builders and pitmen.
Orkney
The museum has an extensive and varied collection of domestic and defence wireless equipment.
Fun activities galore!
We offer many fun activities
A great day out for all the family whatever the weather.
Sussex
Butterflies, Theme Gardens, Museums and Exotic animal rescue centre, cafe, play and picnic area.
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.
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
Lots of school holiday activities at this historic castle
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.
Great air museum that kids will love!
Excellent air museum for all the family with many historic aircraft, activities and museum. Events throughout the year.
Local stories bringing local history to life
Enjoy the interesting Hereford Museum and Art!
Herefordshire
The museum is full of interesting local history with hands-on elements for all the family.
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.
Eastnor Castle.
This is one of England's most beautiful castles. Knight's Maze and Children's Assault Course. Adventure Playground.
The museum is set in parkland
Displays exhibits relating to Northampton's varied history including, military history, 19-century fashion gallery and leathercraft gallery.
Good Museum!
Wigtownshire
An exhibition about the history of Creetown. Historical photographs, audio and video presentations, local arts & crafts.
Dumfries & Galloway
Good Museum - Take a look at varied items from the past with lots of interesting displays.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Have a great day out here with your kids.
Small museum in Riverside setting with good collection of historical items. Regular events.
Kincardineshire
Find out about 19th century tartans, Royal commemorative china and the life of local musician and composer, J. Scott Skinner.
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.
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.
A great day out!
Anglesey
Find out about crime and punishment in Beaumaris Gaol, see the spartan cells and unique treadwheel.
Another days out idea for kids in Inverness!
Inverness-shire
Explore our lively "Man in the Landscape" exhibition and our Discovery Centre, both on the ground floor and much more. Gift shop.
Verulamium Museum
Museum of Roman Britain with lots of interesting exhibits including mosaics.
Make learning fun!
Enjoy and explore!
Family Fun at Tudor World
Lots for kids to see and find out about at this 900 year old Cathedral
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.
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.
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.
Open - rain or shine!
Exciting all-weather family visitor attraction.
Regular hands-on animal activities, two massive indoor playbarns, lots of outdoor play and driving activities. Museums, tea-rooms & gift shop.
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.
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.
Museum
Here you actually enter the World of the Highlander and experience walking through a number of 'time windows' dating from the early 18th century.
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.
Come and explore the wreck of the Warship Anne!
Warship Anne is the best known surviving vessel from Samuel Pepys’ Restoration Navy. Travel back to 1749!
Travel back in time to Roman Canterbury
This child friendly Museum is a great place to learn of the history of Evesham
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!
The Higgins, Bedford - come and visit
Visit our transformed Museum and art gallery - something for everyone.
Climb the tower!
Learn more about the remains of Guildford Castle
School trips too!
Home of the Codebreakers - children under 12 free
Buckinghamshire
Guided Underground tours at Scotland's only lead-mining museum in Scotland's highest village.
Gold Panning in July and August. Educational & school visits, Interactive displays. Beam Engine. Gift shop, cafe.
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.
Killhope is a fully restored 19th century lead mine.
You experience the life and work of the local lead mining families. Huge working waterwheel.
Chester's family friendly museum.
Cheshire
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!
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.
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.
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 must visit - why?
Where children play to learn and grown-ups learn to play...
Educational and interesting!
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.
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.
Trace the fascinating history of Wiltshire.
Learn about Wiltshire and its environment and its people over the last 6,000 years. Collections from Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site.
Interactive family fun!
Northumberland
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.
Horrible History!
Inspiring Tales of Justice
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.
Bringing the age of steam to life
WOW - Take a look at this!
Home to a variety of animals!
Pembrokeshire
