5 Museums for Kids

Museums are a great way to expand a growing mind, and they're fun for adults too!

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1) The Science Museum

London's Science Museum has been introducing young minds to the wonders of the life, the universe - and everything - since 1857. Learn how all about the advance of physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering across the centuries, and what's still left to discover.

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The museum's collections range from green energy machines and life-saving medicines, to the Information Age and tomorrow's world. In this room, you can discover the development of humanoid robots over the past 20 years - it's amazing how far they've come!

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2) Eureka!

In the hills of Halifax is Eureka! The National Children's Museum. This interactive educational museum helps kids (and parents) learn through play. There are six unique zones to discover, each filled with hundreds of interactive exhibits designed to inspire enquiring minds.

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On the ground floor, a miniature town teaches about living and working together in the modern world. Upstairs, the focus is on health, wellbeing, and the human body. While the museum's garden leads visitors on a sensory trail of sights, sounds, and smells.

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3) The Royal Air Force Museum London

For anyone keen on flying (and those who'd rather stay on the ground), the RAF Museum London is a perfect day out. With dozens of real aircraft on display, and some you can even climb into, you'll learn about the history of flight, from the Wright Brothers to autonomous drones.

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See pioneering planes such as the Supermarine Spitfire I, the hero of the Battle of Britain, and the Gloster Meteor F8, the first jet fighter operated by the RAF. The museum even holds a couple examples of their opponents, including the fearsome and versatile German BF-109.

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4) Ryedale Folk Museum

Step back in time at the Ryedale Folk Museum. Here, in the north Yorkshire moors, you can explore local history through 20 historic buildings and 40,000 objects: from an Edwardian photographer's studio to an authentic Iron Age roundhouse.

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History really comes alive - the Museum's farm, allotments, and orchards are home to rare breeds of sheep, cows, fruits, and flowers that would have once filled the countryside.

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5) Beamish

Explore how our recent ancestors used to live at Beamish 'the living museum of the north'. This 350 acre open-air museum preserves buildings and businesses from the 1820s to the 1950s, and presents a typical village in north eastern England.

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The buildings here have been collected, relocated, or faithfully constructed to make your day as realistic as possible.  Visit the steam engines of the 1820s Pockerley Waggonway, and drop into John's Café for an ice cream - it looks just as it did in the 1950s.

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