The Waterworks Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Hereford, Herefordshire
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Closed — opens Tuesday at 11am
🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16Seasonal openingSchool holiday activitiesMemberships availableWater playEducational
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Dogs welcome
one of our volunteers is available should you need any help and guidance
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
A Victorian Grade II* listed pumping station opened as a museum in 1974. See over 50 machines including the oldest working triple expansion steam engine in the UK, plus beam, hot air, gas and diesel engines. The museum opens around 10 Sundays a year when the pumps run using steam as they originally did. Children can lift, pump, filter and squirt water in the waterpark, and follow a trail discovering hidden frogs. A separate WW2 exhibition shows an evacuee's bedroom, a 1940s-style kitchen, and a horse-drawn fire engine. There's a cafe serving hot and cold drinks and homemade cakes.
Machines in steam (Sundays) cost £12 adults; regular Tuesdays cost £8 adults. Sundays typically operate only in spring/summer/autumn.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Travel games
- Rucksack
- Reusable cutlery
- Notebook
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Waterproof jacket
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