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Abington Museum (2 miles)

Northampton

Abington Museum It is an excellent place to visit if you are out with your family or if you are interesting in exploring things like the domestic life in the town, our costume collection or our displays about the Northamptonshire Regiment.

Northampton Museum and Art Gallery (4 miles)

Northampton

Northampton Museum and Art Gallery A visit to Northampton Museum and Art Gallery will give you the opportunity to explore the amazing shoe collection recognised as a collection of national importance. You can also find out about the history of Northampton and see our excellent art and ceramics collection.

Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum (7 miles)

Wellingborough

Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Home to a collection of exhibits and industrial artefacts, which include, steam and diesel locomotives, a life-size diorama of a quarry, along with many other interesting displays.

Harrington Aviation Museum (10 miles)

Harrington

Harrington Aviation Museum Comprises the Carpetbagger Aviation Museum and the Northamptonshire Aviation Society Museum. These museums offer a rare look at life on this Top Secret base from where aircraft flew Special Forces and Secret Agents into Occupied Europe during World War 2. There is a picnic area, canteen and woodland walks.

Milton Keynes Museum (14 miles)

Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes Museum Try the working period telephones and switchboards. Visit the Victorian Parlour and Schoolroom. Listen to an air raid in the Museum's Anderson Shelter. Make toast in the period kitchen. Visit the street of period shops. Visit the Hall of Transport. The Museum's local social history collections allow visitors to experience the area's domestic, industrial, agricultural and transport heritage.

Harborough Museum (16 miles)

Market Harborough

Harborough Museum The newly refurbished Harborough Museum is home to the Hallaton Treasure, discovered in 2000 and one of the most important Iron Age finds in Britain.

John Bunyan Museum (17 miles)

Bedford

John Bunyan Museum A must for kids studying local history, a visit will let you help out with their schoolwork and spend some quality time together. Special quizzes and hands-on trails take them through BunyanâÂÂs amazing life at their own pace

Bletchley Park (18 miles)

Milton Keynes

Bletchley Park Code breakers museum comprising mini cinema, exhibits and a tour around wartime intelligence HQ. Lake and parkland to explore plus large adventure playground.

The National Museum of Computing (18 miles)

Milton Keynes

The National Museum of Computing - is a museum housing the world's largest selection of working vintage computers. It tells the story of computing from the 1940s Colossus computer through the monster mainframes of the 1970s, home computers of the 1980s to the Touchtable of the present. Most machines are working and many are hands-on.

Buckingham Old Gaol Museum (19 miles)

Buckingham

Buckingham Old Gaol Museum Buckingham Old Gaol Museum tells the story of Buckingham and north Bucks rural life, including the Flora Thompson Collection (Lark Rise to Candleford author) and Buckinghamshire Military Trust exhibits. A number of the original cells form part of the museum visitor's experience.

Cromwell Museum (27 miles)

Huntingdon

Cromwell Museum The purpose of the Cromwell Museum is to interpret his life and legacy through portraits, documents and objects associated with Cromwell.

Heritage Motor Centre (28 miles)

Gaydon

Heritage Motor Centre Home to the world's largest collection of historic British cars. Come and uncover the magical story of the British motor industry with new, exciting and interactive exhibitions and outdoor activities.

National Space Centre (30 miles)

Leicester

National Space Centre The award winning National Space Centre is the UK's largest attraction dedicated to space. Home to the UK's largest 360 degree planetarium, the National Space Centre is a hands-on, interactive journey through six stunning galleries, Rocket Tower, and S.I.M ride that offers an experience that is out of this world.

Roald Dahl Children's Gallery (31 miles)

Aylesbury

Roald Dahl Children's Gallery In the Roald Dahl children's gallery you can boggle your eyes and baffle your brain and let your imagination run wild!

Buckinghamshire County Museum (31 miles)

Aylesbury

Buckinghamshire County Museum The museum showcases the County's rich heritage alongside a changing programme of exhibitions in the Buckinghamshire Art Gallery and they also have the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery (please note this operates on limited times).

Herbert Art Gallery and Museum (31 miles)

Coventry

Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Visit us and immerse yourself in arts, history and culture. Winner of the Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award 2010 we have a selection of free galleries and exhibitions, which, with the array of ongoing workshops and events, makes for a great day out for the whole family to enjoy.

British Schools Museum (32 miles)

Hitchin

British Schools Museum A museum of education in a unique complex of historic classrooms. Children of all ages can dress up in period costume to explore the classrooms, practice their writing in sand trays and on slates, play with Victorian toys and visit the Headmaster’s House to experience Victorian domestic life.

Railworld (32 miles)

Peterborough

Railworld If your kids are train mad - this is the place for them. A superb model railway, garden railway, a number of railway memorabilia. There are also 'Steam Age' exhibits, large locomotives - get in the cab of a Danish Pacific and 'trains without wheels'.

St Johns House Museum (32 miles)

St Johns

St Johns House Museum For the curious but less boisterous child you can't beat a kitchen full of drawers to open and cupboards to explore, a Discovery Room for the under 5's and a Victorian school room. Really experience how people lived in the past.

Stockwood Discovery Centre (32 miles)

Luton

Stockwood Discovery Centre With interactive display, variety of gardens, children play area, special events and activities, bee gallery and much more, it is a wonderful visitor attraction and museum. Collection highlights include the Wenlok Jug, the Shillington gold coin hoard and the Mossman collection Ãâ" Britain's largest public collection of horse-drawn vehicles.

Warwickshire Museum (33 miles)

Warwick

Warwickshire Museum Archeology, geology, natural and social history: this museum is a great all rounder and kid friendly too. If they haven't had enough there's a sister museum close by.

Natural History Museum at Tring (33 miles)

Tring

Natural History Museum at Tring Visit the galleries and come face to face with a full-sized gorilla, a huge anaconda or an extinct giant moa, just a few of the 4,000 animals on display!

Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum (33 miles)

Tring

Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum A fascinating trip for children incorporating exhibits on dinosaurs, creepy crawlies, whales and treasure, accompanied by hands-on games, books, crafts and drawing materials.

Melton Carnegie Museum (35 miles)

Melton Mowbray

Melton Carnegie Museum Stilton Cheese and Pork Pies from Melton Mowbray are famous all around the world. Explore the history of these trades and others including saddlery, shoemaking and tinsmithing and the impact they had on the town. Go back even further in time to see how the Romans, Anglo Saxons, Normans, Tudors, Georgians and Victorians would have lived in the area.

The Oxfordshire Museum (37 miles)

Woodstock

The Oxfordshire Museum A wide range of natural and social history exhibits, the more exciting of which include the interactive dinosaur gallery and gardens, and the special family drop-in sessions.

Royston Museum (37 miles)

Royston

Royston Museum A significant and varied collection of exhibits, especially glass and ceramic work. Kids are welcome but best behaviour is appreciated.

Falstaff's Experience (38 miles)

Stratford-Upon-Avon

Falstaff's Experience Set within one of the most historic buildings in Stratford upon Avon, Tudor World bring the 16th century to life. Terry Deary of Horrible Histories devoted his latest book on Stratford to the attraction and described it as one of his books come to life. Fun for all ages.

The MAD Museum (38 miles)

Stratford Upon Avon

The MAD Museum THE newest, craziest attraction to come to Stratford upon Avon. It houses an eccentric assortment of weirdly wonderful Kinetic Art, Automata and Steampunk machines, gadgets and gismos. Perfect for the whole family, MAD offers lots of interactive fun for the little kids and the big kids!

Oxford Bus and Morris Motors Museums (38 miles)

Witney

Oxford Bus and Morris Motors Museums All aboard! See how engines work; what buses are made of; go aboard some; see old tickets and uniforms once used. View the workshop and on special days ride on a vintage bus. Morris Museum: see a 1970s police car; 1920s Bullnose Morris and a Mini in the original style.

The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre (39 miles)

Great Missenden

The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre - Intrepid story-makers enter through the chocolate doors into this great little award-winning and family-friendly Museum. We have two fun and fact-packed biographical galleries and a fantabulous interactive Story Centre.

Charnwood Museum (39 miles)

Loughborough

Charnwood Museum There are lots of interactive exhibits: you can dig through the layers of history and find out why archaeologists like old rubbish, peep under rocks, in cracks and crevices to find the hidden creatures or zoom-in on a centipede's head with the video microscope.

Thorney Heritage Museum (39 miles)

Thorney

Thorney Heritage Museum Concentrates on the time from the first settlement by these monks, but relates human life to the geology and water courses of the natural world.

The Pitt Rivers Museum (39 miles)

Oxford

The Pitt Rivers Museum is a great place for family days out. It is famous for it’s period atmosphere and outstanding collections from many world cultures, past and present. Due to building works only the ground floor is currently open.

Oxford Univ Museum of Natural History (39 miles)

Oxford

Oxford Univ Museum of Natural History Among its most famous features are the Oxfordshire dinosaurs, the dodo, and the swifts in the tower.

Science Oxford Live (39 miles)

Oxford

Science Oxford Live Science Oxford Live is a great place for children to discover science by playing. All exhibits are interactive and families can go at their own pace, with the help of one of our friendly guides.

National Motorcycle Museum (40 miles)

Solihull

National Motorcycle Museum Recognised as the finest and largest motorcycle museum in the world, it is a place where "Legends Live On" and it is a tribute to and a living record of this once great British industry that dominated world markets for some sixty years.

Museum of the History of Science (40 miles)

Oxford

Museum of the History of Science A free to view unrivalled collection of early scientific instruments and exciting modern exhibitions in the world’s oldest surviving purpose-built museum building. One of many fun family places to visit if you're looking for things to do in Oxford with kids.

The Ashmolean (40 miles)

Oxford

The Ashmolean is packed full of archaeology and art works from all over the world. Families can discover mummies in ancient Egypt, find coins from ancient Greece, and travel through time to find modern paintings, statues and more.

Kettles Yard (40 miles)

Cambridge

Kettles Yard Family friendly, on top of the fantastic exhibitions they also offer an Education Room where the kids (4+) can make their own artwork from a selection of free materials.

Modern Art Oxford (40 miles)

Oxford

Modern Art Oxford Lots of family related things to do: The Modern Art Trolley introduces children of all ages to the Gallery through a range of fun and creative activities. Family Guides are available for most exhibitions and can be enjoyed by all family members. The guide encourages a creative pathway around the exhibition and suggests activities to try out at home plus loads more family days out activities.

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Now we have the easter and summer holidays fast approaching, we're trying to find the best days out and as many fun things to do with kids as possible, especially cheap and free family friendly places to visit this year - theme parks, waterparks and swimming pools, museums, indoor playcentres and softplay for toddlers, petting farms, wildlife parks and zoos, aquariums, horse riding, castles, steam railways, pottery making and ceramic cafes, roller and ice skating rinks, karting tracks, snowdomes, dry and indoor ski slopes, climbing walls, activity centres, outdoor play at the best local parks, ten pin bowling alleys and all the other best family tourist attractions, that you can visit at the weekend.

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