Family Days Out

A guide to family-friendly places to go, events and exhibitions at museums, galleries and heritage sites across the UK. Browse the articles for inspiration or home in on an event via the map or browse via the boxes below...

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Julian Wild talks Meccano, industrial history and sculpture for Museums at Night 2013

Ahead of his Museums at Night public sculpture project at the Ironbridge Gorge industrial heritage site on May 18, sculptor Julian Wild talks to Mark Sheerin about his ambitious plans.

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A Teddy Bear Story at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Paddington, Pooh, Pudsey and the Care Bears are among the stars of a hugely popular show in Sunderland telling the story of more than a century of teddy bear designs.

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Kids in Museums returns to the Royal Academy to celebrate ten years of family friendliness

Ten years after founder Dea Birkett's family were asked to leave the Royal Academy, the Kids in Museums group returns there to celebrate ten years of progress.

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Brooklands Museum prepares a spectacular 1940s party for Museums at Night

There's a spectacular night of 1940s entertainment in store at Brooklands Museum in Surrey for Museums at Night with World War II home front fashion, dancing and music.

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BBC Stargazing Live returns with astronomical plans for UK museums and galleries

The BBC's annual campaign to get people involved with astronomy, Stargazing Live, returns following the huge success of last year's campaign.

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Museums at Night 2013: Find an after hours Science museum event to go to

Culture24's Museums at Night 2013 boasts plenty of science-themed museum events; here are some of the best.

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The Culture24 Guide to Art, Culture and Heritage membership schemes for Christmas and New Year

Give the art or heritage lover in your life something they'll be able to really enjoy this year with this guide to museum, gallery and heritage membership schemes.

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Charles Dickens Museum reopens after £3.1 million transformation

Taking over its neighbouring house, the Doughty Street building where Charles Dickens once lived reopens to round off the bicentenary of his birth in style.

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In Pictures: The V&A's new Furniture Gallery

The first gallery ever to unite the V&A's majestic furniture collection opens this weekend, featuring exhibits from across history and the world.

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A Study in Scarlet: Stephen Fry and friends mark 125 years of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes fans will get a glimpse of a rarely-seen first edition of A Study in Scarlet at Portsmouth City Museum, accompanied by an audio tour voiced by Stephen Fry.

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His dark Materials: Adie Blundell's imagination unleashed at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

In his debut solo exhibition, Coventry artist Adie Blundell presents disturbing masks, highlights from his obsessive collecting of Victoriana and drawings of albatrosses.

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JK Rowling to Banksy: Real and Imagined Lives at Bristol's M Shed

Authors including Terry Pratchett imagine the lives of mystery 16th and 17th century paintings from the National Portrait Gallery in M Shed's new show.

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Pulp fiction: Jarvis Cocker launches "fantastic" new Wakefield One library and museum

The enigmatic singer and author was on hand to launch an impressive new centre in the West Yorkshire city of Wakefield, complete with a museum and 60,000 books.

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Manchester Science Festival: Nine days of big bangs, quantum physics, comedy, kids' stuff...

Manchester's annual nine-day, multi-venue festival of Science kicks of this weekend with a dizzying array of events for kids, families and adults.

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I Spy the Countryside: Collecting 20th Century Rural Life at the Museum of East Anglian Life

Organisers want feedback and ideas from the public on how to expand their collections as a new display on the history of the countryside goes on show in Stowmarket.

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