A Day with Children

Two free museums, a market lunch, a botanic garden and a park with a play area for a day out with children, composed from the place pages.

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The two museums at the start are free to enter, and the market has street food from many cuisines. Children are admitted free to the botanic garden, and the park at the end has a pool and a large play area for children of all ages. Children under 11 must be accompanied by an adult at the zoology museum. Each stop's description comes from its own page; check it for opening hours and any charges before you go. The order and the time allowances are our suggestion, not sourced facts.

Estimated time on the stops below: about 285 minutes (about 4.8 hours), not counting walking between them. Durations are our own estimates, not figures from the place pages.

1

Morning
University Museum of Zoology Museum
A free natural history museum under a hanging fin whale, with Darwin's specimens and extinct birds.

Allow about 60 minutes (estimate)
2
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Museum
The University's free geology museum, with Darwin's Beagle rocks, an upright Iguanodon and a huge fossil collection.

Allow about 45 minutes (estimate)
3

Lunch
Cambridge Market Street food
An outdoor market on Market Hill that has traded in the same spot since Saxon times, open every day of the year bar three.

Allow about 30 minutes (estimate)
4

Afternoon
Cambridge University Botanic Garden Park
A 16-hectare university garden, on its present site since 1831, with over 8,000 plant species and a lake.

Allow about 90 minutes (estimate)
5
Lammas Land Landmark
A family park south-west of the centre, with a pool, play area and a footbridge across to Sheep's Green.

Allow about 60 minutes (estimate)