Cambridge Library
Museums & Science Centres · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Closed — opens 9.30am
🏠 Indoor0–11–33–58–12☔ Rainy-day friendly🆓 Free entryEducationalToddler sessions
What’s there
- Parking
- Baby changing
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Closest parking is the Grand Arcade multi-storey car park (pay and display, Blue Badge concessions). Free covered cycle park under the shopping centre with entrance on Corn Exchange Street.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Cambridge Central Library is the principal public library for Cambridge, run by Cambridgeshire County Council and located in the Lion Yard shopping centre in the city centre. It is free to visit and join. The well-stocked Children's Library hosts regular free sessions for young families, including storytimes on Mondays and Sundays, rhyme times on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, plus children's craft and Lego clubs. The library offers free Wi-Fi, public computers, study space, printers and photocopiers, baby change facilities, accessible toilets and step-free wheelchair access throughout.
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.
- Pushchair buggy board
- Dummy and a spare
- Baby carrier or slingBetter than a pram anywhere with steps or mud.
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- I-spy book
- Tissues
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