Marvellous museums

If you have some mini science fans,
Visiting a museum is a super plan!
From science museums to centres based on children books,
Check this blog to find the perfect museum to have a look!

🎶British Music Experience, Liverpool🎶

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Music lovers, this one is for you! Venture through a journey showing the ages of British popular music and your favourite artists! From Adele, Sex Pistols, Spice Girls, Noel Gallagher to even The Beatles, you’ll be able to see their costumes, instruments, and memorabilia. Have a go at recording your very own song in the Gibson Interactive Studio and even learn a dance routine in the “Dance the Decades Experience”. Save up to 22% off tickets with Picniq, book here.

📚The Roald Dahl Museum & Story Centre, Buckinghamshire📚

Little and big Roald Dahl fans will adore this super day out! Explore the museum and see exhibits showing items from Roald Dahl’s childhood such as family photos along with his pre-writer adventures. If you have aspiring authors at home, they need to visit The Story Centre, where they can hear tips and tricks of writing their very own stories. After all that exploring I’m sure you’ll be hungry! Head over to the cafe and pick up delicious sweet treats such as a Bogtrotter chocolate cake slice or savoury items such as sandwiches and jacket potatoes. Find out more information here.

💡Eureka!, Halifax💡

Get ready for this fun and educational day out at this museum! Let little ones run wild and explore all about themselves and the world around them. The exhibits are designed for kids to interact and test each of them all whilst exploring their natural curiosity. There are 6 different zones, extensive grounds, creativity spaces and so much more to explore. This is the perfect day out for families! Find out more information here.

👀Riverside Museum, Glasgow👀

Walkthrough 150 interactive displays at this museum and discover what life was really like! Marvel at a large display of transport, buildings, fashion and merchandise from Glasgow in the past. There are also screens, films, and images for families to look at to take a trip down memory lane. Not only are there exhibits to look at from the past but there are also displayed items that have not been invented yet! Find out more information here.

🔬W5 Science, Belfast🔬

This the best place for kids to have fun all whilst exploring! Little ones can venture around 250 interactive exhibitions and discover that science can be fun. START is an area inside designed for younger visitors to kick start their imagination. Must-do activities inside include being able to customise their very own real Mini car, play with ball cannons and even watch a skeleton ride a bike! Learn all about health by visiting the GO section where exhibits are based around health, hygiene, genetics, geology, electric circuits, flight, and forces. Find out more information here.

⭐Winchester Science Centre, Winchester⭐

This is a great museum for a family visit! Winchester Science Centre features lots of hands-on interactive science and technology displays to get involved with. From a space zone which transports you through the solar system, film screenings of in the 360-degree planetarium cinema to free marvellous science shows! Kids can also create their very own inventions and complete tricky challenges in the Invention Studio using materials provided. Find out more information here.

🚂Brighton Toy & Model Museum, Brighton🚂

Get ready to step back in time at this museum. Inside, explore wonderful childhood favourites such as soft toys, train sets, old fashioned slot machines along with puppets! There are also classic childhood favourite characters such as Peter Rabbit. Make sure to check out one of the daily puppet shows. Find out more information here.

🦕Jurassic Journey, Great Yarmouth🦕

This is definitely a roarsome day out! Explore Jurassic Journey and take a step back in time to when dinosaurs ruled Earth. Inside you can see all sorts of electronic interactive dinosaurs that will move and roar! Get up close to lifelike Stegosaurus, Velociraptor and the king T-Rex in this thrilling walk-through exhibit. Make sure to try out the scavenger hunt and even hunt for fossils! Find out more information here.

🐰The World of Beatrix Potter, Bowness-on-Windermere🐰

Step inside the wonderful world of Beatrix Potter at this museum! Venture through the displays of favourite characters such as Peter Rabbit and watch the stories come to life in 3D. Hop on board the steam train which will take you on a journey around the lake where you can jump off and have a sail around England’s largest lake. Keep an eye out for Peter Rabbit, I heard he’s hopping around in Mr McGregor’s garden! Finish your trip by visiting the tasty cafe and picking up a sweet treat such as carrot cake. Find out more information here.

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