STEAM - Museum of the GWR

Recently visited with our 4 and 7 year old boys and had a great time. There are worksheets that the children can pick up at the front desk with questions and things to find relating to the exhibits, which kept both busy. The museum itself tells the story of the GWR works at Swindon, and includes full size stream engines alongside interactive exhibits and things for the children to do, such as building model bridges, pulling signal levers and pretending to drive a steam train. We finished our visit with lunch in the cafe, which was also very nice with a good selection of kids and adult meals. I liked the fact that lots of the staff seemed to be more mature ladies and gentlemen, who were unfailingly helpful and polite. Overall this place is definitely worth a visit if in the area; even if you have no particular interest in trains it's an interesting place. The only negative I can think of is finding the place! Following the steam museum signs on the road takes you to the outlet shopping car park, but from there we couldn't see any signs which showed you where to go once on foot. But we found it in the end and we're glad we did, as we had a lovely couple of hours exploring the museum.