London Museum Docklands
Museums & Science Centres · Isle of Dogs, Inner London
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Open now — closes 5pm
🏠 Indoor☔ Rainy-day friendly🆓 Free entryEducational🛝 Soft play
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
Paid public car park (Saba) - code LDMGuest2025 gives 10% off short-stay when booked via Saba app/website. Museum entrance is on the quayside, not accessible by car; coach drop-off on Hertsmere Road (no parking permitted).
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
London Museum Docklands tells the story of the Thames, the port and the people who worked it, in a Grade I listed Georgian sugar warehouse on West India Quay. Entry is free.
For families the draw is Mudlarks, an interactive play gallery for under-8s where children dig, weigh cargo and work a scaled-down dockside. There is also plenty for older children in the galleries themselves, including the sailortown reconstruction of Victorian riverside streets.
Open 10am to 5pm every day.
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.
- Painkillers for grown-ups
- Travel sickness bands
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Rucksack
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Travel games
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