Free Museums

Aberdeen's seafaring story including a giant North Sea oil rig model — free entry on the harbour

World-famous Pre-Raphaelite collection and Staffordshire Hoard — free entry in central Birmingham

Dinosaurs, Egyptian mummies, Banksy and a gypsy caravan — free family fun in central Bristol

Cambridge's free art and antiquities museum — Egyptian coffins, paintings and family backpacks

Wales's top-rated free attraction — 50+ historic buildings, farm animals and a huge play area

Wales's flagship free museum — dinosaurs, Impressionist paintings and a Big Bang gallery

Devon's largest free museum — natural history, world cultures and an Egyptian mummy

Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross, a Spitfire and a mini-museum for under-5s — all free

Glasgow's transport museum with vintage trams, locomotives and a recreated cobbled street

Aquarium, planetarium, dinosaurs and a bug house — Liverpool's best free family museum

The story of Liverpool from prehistory to The Beatles — free at the Pier Head waterfront

Explore 2 million years of history for free — kids' trails, family backpacks and the Rosetta Stone

Meet Hope the blue whale, animatronic dinosaurs and the earthquake simulator — all free

Hands-on galleries, Wonderlab and rocket-launching fun — completely free for families

World-class art and design collections — free for families with creative kids

The 'younger sibling' of the V&A — packed with toys, hands-on activities and a stage just for kids

350 years of British military history with hands-on family activities — free entry

100 years of RAF history with climbable Spitfire models and free family events

Britain's naval story with the Ahoy! Gallery for under-7s and the Great Map for all ages

Story of the Thames, trade and London's docks — free with a brilliant Mudlarks gallery for under-8s

Quirky south London museum with taxidermy, world musical instruments and 16 acres of free gardens

Climb on red buses, the world's first Tube train and play in the All Aboard zone — free for kids

Lift a real gold bar and learn about money in this surprisingly fun free museum

Set in the world's oldest railway station — hands-on science, textile machinery and transport for free

Recently refurbished — natural history, ancient Egypt and a vivarium with live frogs and snakes

Newcastle's biggest free museum — dinosaurs, mummies, planetarium and a giant T-Rex skeleton

Newcastle's hands-on science and innovation museum — home to the Turbinia, the world's first turbine ship

Britain's oldest public museum — free art, archaeology and Egyptian mummies in central Oxford

Oxford's wonderfully strange anthropology museum — totem poles, shrunken heads and curiosities galore

Dinosaurs, dodos and the original 'Alice in Wonderland' inspirations — free in central Oxford

Dolly the Sheep, dinosaurs and the famous Millennium Clock — Scotland's biggest free family museum

Scotland's open-air museum of Highland life — turf houses, working farm and the Outlander filming location

Cold War military aircraft, a Vulcan bomber and interactive exhibits — rated 91% by Which?

Belfast's biggest free museum — dinosaurs, Egyptian mummies and the Spanish Armada treasures

The world's largest railway museum — climb aboard royal carriages and the Mallard, free for families