Banbury Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Banbury, Oxfordshire
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 11am
🏠 Indoor🆓 Free entryEducationalSchool holiday activities
What’s there
- Café on site
- Baby changing
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
No parking on site. Several car parks within walking distance, including Castle Quay, Riverside next to Spiceball Park and Chamberlain Court; some have time restrictions. No accessible parking on site; accessible spaces at Castle Quay South car park with lift access to the shop.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Banbury Museum & Gallery sits beside the Oxford Canal in the town centre and tells the story of Banbury and the surrounding area. The galleries cover the Civil War, the town's plush manufacturing past, its Victorian market-town life and costume from the 17th century to the present day, with a separate waterways display about the canal and the nearby Tooley's Boatyard. Families can browse at their own pace, and the museum runs children's crafts and activities through the school holidays plus sessions for under-fives during term time. A changing programme of temporary exhibitions in the Pye Gallery is ticketed separately. There is a café on site, a museum shop selling local art and souvenirs, and a reference library for family history research.
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.
- Bum bag
- Hand sanitiser
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Tissues
- Colouring book and pencils
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
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