Torquay Museum is a family-friendly museum with games, quizzes and trails plus blockbuster summer exhibitions designed to engage children and adults alike.
Travel back through 400 million years of time, hunt down the clues in the spooky Curse of the Mummy's Hand game, crack the secret code on the Explorers Trail, and detect your way through the Agatha Christie gallery, dedicated to the life story of the Queen of Crime, there is plenty to occupy families at this museum. A shop might tempt you into parting with some pennies!
At Torquay Museum we follow the Kids in Museums manifesto where we aim to provide a welcoming, family-friendly atmosphere with fun activities, exhibitions and events throughout the year, interactive gallery spaces, spacious baby-changing areas and a child-friendly cafe.
Children and families will find plenty of hands-on exhibits throughout the Museum with trails and in-gallery activities to keep visitors of all ages learning and exploring!
Travel back through 400 million years of time at Torquay Museum - a hands-on family-friendly visitor attraction, with lots to see and do for children and adults alike. A wide variety of exhibitions are hosted throughout the year by the Museum, from child-friendly summer blockbusters to fascinating exhibitions about South Devon's amazing archaeology, geology and people. Detect your way through Britain's only Agatha Christie gallery at Torquay Museum, come face-to-face with North-West Europe's oldest human fossil and explore Ancient Egypt, including the coffin of a 2,500 year old mummified boy. Then follow the incredible journeys made by Torquay's famous explorers, from the frozen wastes of the Antarctic to the depths of the Brazilian rainforest.
A programme of blockbusted temporary exhibitions as well as children's activities during the school holidays.
Torquay Museum
529 Babbacombe Road, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 1HG, England
Tel: 01803293975
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