24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
Gateway to Over 3,000 UK museums, galleries and heritage attractions
Skip to navigation
Trails
Explore Family Friendly Museums & Galleries In The Thames Valley
18/02/2006
The Thames Valley museums highlighted on this page offer a particularly warm welcome to adults and children who want to enjoy a museum visit together. They provide a relaxed, ‘family friendly’ atmosphere and feature activities for the whole group, many of them FREE!
Click here to find Family Friendly museums in the Thames Valley
Remember these Family Friendly museums are just some of the museums in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire for you to enjoy. Together, these Thames Valley museums boast some of the finest collections in the UK and the liveliest events.
Explore more museums in the Thames Valley
Wycombe Museum © Filip Gierlinski
Image: photo of a lit up building with people in the foreground
***STOP PRESS*** OCTOBER 2007 EVENTS UPDATE - FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON THIS AUTUMN AT A THAMES VALLEY MUSEUM Photo: Abingdon Museum. © Filip Gierlinski
Why not have a look at our stories highlighting the richness of Thames Valley heritage - look out for the Family Friendly museums! For details of family friendly events across the region, check the event display box at the bottom of this page.
Make It And Take It Club At REME Museum
Image: A child crawling through grass
Family Friendly days at REME liven up a military museum for the whole family. Depending on the day's theme, kids can make a morse code transmitter, a waterproof shelter or a special sunlight photograph.
Click here to read the full story
Photo courtesy of REME.
Pure Glis - Family Friendly Events At Amersham Museum
Image: Three children peer round a door
A fat dormouse is leading families around at Amersham museum. Focussing on all things local has given the Family Friendly events at Amersham a real twist, with old toys, Roman games, garden challenges and a trail dedicated to their beloved Glis glis.
Click here to read the full story
Photo courtesy of Amersham.
Eton Opens Its Doors For Family Friendly Fun At Their Natural HIstory Museum
Image: Two boys in frock coats walk along a road
Eton College, one of the most privileged institutions in the UK, is to invite families into one of its museums as a direct result of the Thames Valley Family Friendly pilot.
Click here to read the full story
Photo by Nicola Tann.
New Roman Exhibition At Buckinghamshire County Museum
Image: A man and boy attempting to put a Roman bowl together from broken pieces
A new exhibition at the Bucks County Museum helps families and schools discover what life was like in Roman times.
Click here to read the full story
Photo courtesy of Bucks County Museum.
Banging The Drum For The Thames Valley
Image: Children and adults playing drums in a garden
Museums and Galleries Month 2006 has really spoilt us this year with a glut of excellent family friendly events across the Thames Valley.
Click here to read the full story
Photo courtesy of REME museum of Technology.
Wycombe Museum Hosts Exhibition To Raise Funds For Victims Of Pakistan Earthquake
An exhibition put on by two local men who raised in excess of £40,000 from their local community to help victims of the crisis in Pakistan is being hosted by Wycombe Museum.
Click here to read the full story
Photo courtesy of Wycombe Museum.
Be A Basket Case This Month In Oxfordshire
Image: A tiny leaf-shaped basket rests on some grass
Basketmaking is the subject for a three-part exhibition at the Oxfordshire Museum, and a county-wide trail, for Museums and Galleries Month 2006.
Click here to read the full story
Photo courtesy of Oxfordshire Basket Makers.
Why not browse our selection of articles, below, highlighting the richness of our Thames Valley heritage? Look out for the Family Friendly museums! For details of ALL the family friendly events across the region, check the display box on the left of this webpage.
Didcot Railway Centre Gears Up For Special Brunel Bicentenary Celebrations This Month
Dealing With Social Diversity - Slough Museum Sets The Bar High
Thames Valley Museums Launch Family Friendly Pilot Scheme
National Trust Staff Spring Hughenden Manor Back To Life
River and Rowing Museum Develops New Punjabi Audio Guides
Get a Golden Ticket At The Roald Dahl Museum
New Writer-In-Residence At The Roald Dahl Museum And Story Centre
River And Rowing Museum Remembers A Hero From 1911
Bucks Finest At The Bucks County Museum Aylesbury
It's A Small But Beautiful World At Pendon Museum
New Interactive Science Exhibition Opens At Slough Museum
Pilgrimage Explores Religeous Tradition At The Ashmolean
George Ward's Evocative Photographs At Amersham Market Hall
Pendon Museum Gets Ready For Brunel 2006
Sacred Space At The Ashmolean Museum
Fab Finds In Oxford - From A Gold Guinea To A Battersea Blade
Portable Antiquities Ox and Berks - A Complete Panorama
Fellowship Of The Ring - A J.R.R. Tolkein Trail
Fun at Wycombe Museum © Filip Gierlinski
Learning to drive at Amersham Museum © Filip Gierlinski
Buckinghamshire County Museum © Filip Gierlinski
Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock © Filip Gierlinski
FREE FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENTS AND NEWS INFO
On the left of this page there's a free newsfeed of events from museums, galleries, heritage sites and archives in the Thames Valley. This display box and its contents can easily be added to your website. It's automatically updated on a regular basis. If you'd like to know more about how to do this, email 24 Hour Museum Editor Jon Pratty for instructions.
LINKS:
Virtual River and Rowing Museum
Search this site
Home Page
News Page
Exhibition Page
What's On
Trails Page
Website of the Week
Letters Page
Welsh Home
Graphical Version
Copyright © 24 Hour Museum
Information published here was believed to be correct at the time it was prepared. Welsh language pages developed with CYMAL: Museums Archives and Libraries Wales, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government.