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All museums or galleries listed here love having young visitors - so get out and about and have fun!
Click on the museum names to find out where they are and when they open.
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Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex
What did the Romans do for us? Well they built a fabulous Palace at Fishbourne. Find out more about Roman life 2,000 years ago. See fantastic mosaics and objects in the museum. Plus there's a Plants garden, lawns, hedges and picnic area. A great day out for all the family!
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Hands-On, Oxford
Hands-On is a new science gallery packed with loads of exciting, interactive experiments.
Try distorting your face on television, floating a train and operating a digger arm!
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Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire
Get busy with activity packs, eye-spy sheets and kid's guides to the house... and picnic in the orchard. On Thursdays and Fridays get hands-on in the walled garden to plant seeds, harvest veg and explore the willow maze. The first Sunday of every month is a special family day with activities for all ages.
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The Natural History Museum at Tring Hertfordshire
Here you can come face to face with a full-sized gorilla, a huge anaconda or an extinct giant moa - just a few of the 4,000 animals on display!
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Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Chichester, West Sussex
This caravan is new to the museum, and there's lots more.
A great place to visit on a sunny day as there's so much to do outside.
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The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire
You can have a truly whizzpopping wondercrump time at this museum, which has chocolate doors!
Discover Roald Dahl's amazing life story, find out how he wrote his books and how other authors turn an idea into a book.
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The Roald Dahl Children's Gallery, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Here you can see the Twits' upside-down room, ride in the Great Glass Elevator, meet James and his insect friends inside the Giant Peach and even send yourself by television like Mike Teavee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!
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Hampton Court Palace, Surrey
Journey back through 500 years of royal history! Visit the larger-than-life Tudor kitchens, with their roaring fire and historic ingredients.
See Henry VIII's lavish apartments, and hear the stories about this famous and extravagant king. Watch out for the Haunted Gallery, said to be haunted by his fifth wife, Catherine Howard!
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Enjoy the spacious gardens and the newly-developed maze, where a sensor-triggered sound installation takes you through the maze, with the sounds of a fragment of music, a snatch of laughter, and the whispers of conversation, to bring you triumphantly to the centre!
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Hove Museum and Art Gallery, East Sussex
Check out the wizard's attic and the old toy collection here - and what do you think this bedroom's all about?
This museum runs some great crafty workshops for kids (and grown-ups too sometimes!).
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Portsmouth Natural History Museum, Hampshire
This museum tells the story of the wild things of the riverbank, marshes, woods and urban areas of Portsmouth. Have a look for the heron stalking its prey and the brent geese coming into land after their 3000 km flight from the Arctic.
There's also an aquarium and butterfly house. Although the butterflies only fly in the summer, during the winter you can hunt for caterpillars under the leaves and spot the mirror carp among the weeds!
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Brading Roman Villa, Isle of Wight
See some of the best Roman mosaics that have ever been found in Britain at this amazing Roman Villa.
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Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Here there are dinosaurs, a dodo, and live swifts in the tower (which you can watch from anywhere in the world, from May to August, via their webcam).
The museum's casts of a dodo's head and foot inspired the author Lewis Carroll when he was writing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland!
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Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Hampshire
Lots of different museums all rolled into one here.
Henry VIII's warship The Mary Rose is still having her shower and at Action Stations the climbing wall is a serious challenge!
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Museum of Reading
See an amazing copy of one of the world's most famous tapestries here - The Bayeux Tapestry. Remember to look out for poor old Harold with the arrow in his eye - ouch.
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Haslemere Educational Museum, Surrey
How will you choose what to see first? Will it be the Egyptian mummy or the Siberian bear? The bees in their hive or the meteorite?
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St. Barbe Museum, Lymington, Hampshire
The New Forest isn't just trees you know... find out more at this family-friendly museum.
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Hollytrees Museum, Colchester, Essex
Now, there is a rumour that this museum is haunted by the ghost of a woman. Spooky stuff. It isn't all echoing footsteps though, why not go and find out what life was like in Victorian Colchester?
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Cole Museum of Zoology, Reading, Berkshire
This museum has two ENORMOUS spider crabs and a fossil replica of the biggest spider that ever lived.
Other things to look out for are a fossilised dinosaur egg which is 70 million years old and the skeleton of an Indian elephant.
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Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury
At this fantastic museum you can see fossils, look at paintings and find out about people who've lived in Buckinghamshire in the past - including the Romans and Celts. There's so much to see - everything from a 1,000-year old Saxon ladder to a modern chainsaw!
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