Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Museums & Science Centres · Clerkenwell, Inner London
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 10am
🏠 Indoor & outdoor🆓 Free entryEducationalGardens☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
- Limited parking
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
- SEN friendly
Three accessible parking spaces at the Amwell Street end, reserved in advance by emailing [email protected] at least one day ahead. Site is in the Islington congestion zone.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration is the UK's public centre dedicated to the art of illustration, housed in the restored New River Head waterworks in Clerkenwell. It is founded by the illustrator Quentin Blake and holds a changing programme of exhibitions covering picture books, posters, animation, cartoons and more, alongside original drawings from his own archive. Families can wander the free parts of the site, which include a public illustration library that suits younger children, newly planted gardens and public artworks, and a cafe with a terrace. Ticketed galleries host the temporary exhibitions, and the centre runs all-age illustration activities and workshops alongside them. It is a calm, indoor-and-outdoor option for a family day in central London, best suited to children who enjoy drawing, picture books and looking closely at artwork.
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.
- Colouring book and pencils
- Sun cream
- A penForms, competitions, name badges.
- Travel sickness bands
- Painkillers for grown-ups
- Folding stool
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