🏠 IndoorEducational🆓 Free entrySchool holiday activities
What’s there
- Limited parking
Nearest public car park is the Morrisons car park a few minutes' walk away (reported by third-party visitor information).
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
East Surrey Museum sits in the middle of Caterham and is dedicated to the social history, archaeology and geology of the East Surrey area. Its displays are arranged over a few rooms, so a visit is short and easy with younger children. One room is set aside for children, and the museum runs museum trails and hands-on exhibits aimed at visitors of all ages, with craft activities during school holidays. Local pubs and brewing feature in a recent display, and temporary exhibitions change through the year. The building is a Victorian flint and tiled house, and the museum is staffed largely by volunteers who are happy to show families around. It also takes school and club groups by arrangement, which makes it a useful stop for a local history outing close to Caterham station.
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.
- Backseat organiser
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
- Kids' headphones
- Hair bobbles
- Travel sickness bands
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
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