Every Hull museum is free, and the Maritime Museum has just reopened after a twenty million pound rebuild.

A national museum with a roof terrace, an extinct volcano you can climb, and a free museum devoted entirely to childhood.

Kelvingrove and the Riverside Museum are both free and both brilliant, and that is before you reach the parks.

Manchester has more free museums than you can do in a day, and the best ones are the sort that let children push buttons and pull levers.

Every one of Liverpool's national museums is free, and they are clustered close enough together that you can do two or three in a day.

The Royal Armouries alone justifies the trip, and it costs nothing to get in. Leeds has a surprising amount of free family stuff.

A T-Rex, a Roman wall, a giant turbine ship and a quayside full of bridges, none of which charge for entry.

The Harris reopened in 2025 after a nineteen million pound rebuild, it is free, and it is right in the middle of town.

A free museum, gallery and library in one modern building, plus lakes and parks within walking distance of the station.