Museums For Kids

Museums For Kids

Holidaying in the UK?

Visit these fun children's museums

Show Me UK Website ~ Museum Of Childhood ~ National Museums Liverpool ~ The Natural History Museum ~ Buckinghamshire County Museum ~ Beamish ~ London's Transport Museum ~ The Museum of Science and Industry ~ Madame Tussauds

Show Me UK Website

This site brings together all of the great stuff for kids aged 4-11, from the UK's museums, galleries, science centres and heritage sites. The site is full of online games, interactive activities, stories, exhibitions, quizzes, competitions and ideas for things to do offline. There is also an interactive map to help you find museums, exhibitions and events near you. With so much to do in the 'real' world or online you will never be bored again - even on the wettest Sunday afternoon!

For more information visit: http://www.show.me.uk/

Museum Of Childhood

The Museum's mission is to enable everyone, especially the young, to explore and enjoy the designed world, in particular objects made for and made by children.

For more information visit: http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk

National Museums Liverpool

Learn more about art, history and science at National Museums Liverpool. We have eight venues to choose from, outstanding collections of world-wide importance and a wealth of exhibitions, interactive and special activities on offer.

Our year-round education and events programme includes everything from story-telling and games for the under-5s through to talks and study days, group visits and hands-on activity sessions.

For more information visit: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/

The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum - Walking into this wonderful museum's cavernous hall that houses a huge Brontosaurus fossil - now supplemented by a life-size, animatronic-type T-Rex - is one of the standout memories of many a childhood, and just a corridor away there's the only slightly less inspiring thrill of the Blue Whale room. These days, regular hands-on exhibitions and a much improved walk-though design have only added to the fun.

For more information visit: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/

Buckinghamshire County Museum

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ... James and the Giant Peach ... The BFG ... Matilda ... The Witches ... Fantastic Mr Fox ... For over 30 years Roald Dahl's stories have delighted and captured the imaginations of children and are already modern classics.

Roald Dahl lived for much of his working life in Great Missenden near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury has created an award winning hands-on children's gallery named after Roald Dahl. The Gallery integrates Quentin Blake's wonderfully quirky illustrations, which perfectly complement Dahl's narrative and are known and loved by readers everywhere. It is great fun for all the family and children of all ages.

For more information visit: http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/museum/dahl

Beamish

Beamish, Britain's favourite open air museum, set in over 300 acres of beautiful countryside, vividly recreates life in the North of England in the early 1800s and 1900s. Winner of both the British Museum of the Year and European Museum of the Year Awards, it demonstrates the recent history of the region in a "living" way and provides entertainment and education for visitors of all ages and interests.

For more information visit: http://www.beamishmuseum.co.uk/

London's Transport Museum

Some of London's most famous icons are moving ones, from red buses and black cabs to Tube trains and, generally speaking, kids love them. Here you'll take a trip through the development of the city's transport system over the past couple of centuries. There are also some innovative hand-on exhibits and a troupe of wandering actors portraying transport characters down the ages.

For more information visit: http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/

The Museum of Science and Industry

The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester has galleries that amuse, amaze and entertain. Explore the senses in Xperiment! the hands-on science centre. See the wheels of industry turning in the Power Hall, marvel at the planes that made flying history in the Air and Space Hall and walk through a reconstructed Victorian sewer.

For more information visit: http://www.msim.org.uk/

Madame Tussauds

Madame Tussauds invites you to experience what it is like to be famous as you join a host of the worlds hottest celebrities. The Daily bugle has signed you to get the scoop of the century, a picture of you with Spiderman, can you scale Spiderman's web heights above the streets of New York.Sing, dance and perform with the stunning Beyonce, Britney and Kylie, 'are you a Diva in the making'? Wannabie Footie stars get the chance to 'Try out for England' and demonstrate their passing, heading and dribbling skills guided by expert advice from Michael Owen and David Beckham and Sven will tell you if you are good enough to make the squad. Step into Jonny Wilkinson's boots and score the winning goal for England. Imagine you are performing a speech direct from the UN flanked by George Bush and Tony Blair. Scream until your blood curdles and try to escape from unleashed serial killers in Chamber Live. Keep a look out throughout the year for even more new fantastic interactive attractions. There's something different happening at Madame Tussauds all the time.

For further information visit: www.madame-tussauds.com