rainy day activities

Shortlisted for the Family Friendly Museum Award, Nature in Art in Gloucester is a must for all those interested in world-class art, nature and heritage.

A visit to Killhope, the award winning North of England Lead Mining Museum, is a unique and unforgettable experience and was voted the UK’s most family friendly museum in 2004.

Weston Park is an award-winning, family-friendly museum with great exhibits for the kids, a child friendly cafe and activities for all generations.

The Oxford Uni Museum of Natural History has the complete remains of a Dodo, Oxfordshire dinosaurs, and was voted Britain’s most family friendly museum in 2005.

Have you been to Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford (Oxfordshire South East England) with your family? What would you tell other parents about your experience?

Have you been to MuseumArtGallery in Haslemere (Surrey South East England) with your family? What would you tell other parents about your experience?

Falmouth Art Gallery in Cornwall is family friendly and free. One of the leading art galleries in the South West, it won the Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award in 2006.

Joint winner of the Telegraph Family Friendly Museum Award, Brixham Museum & History Society records, preserve and promote the story of historic Brixham (Devon) and its people.

Voted the most family friendly museum in Britain in 2011, Mansfield Museum in Nottinghamshire is a great place to take the kids.