Nottingham Castle
Museums & Science Centres · Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 10am
🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16Educational☔ Rainy-day friendlyCastleBooking required
What’s there
- Café on site
Visitor parking is not available on site. Nottingham City Centre Parking Guide for public car parks in the city. Blue badge parking is subject to availability and pre-booking recommended.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Nottingham Castle houses a museum and art galleries spanning 1000 years of history, with collections covering fine art, lace, Robin Hood, and the castle's own past. The site includes hidden caves beneath Castle Rock accessible by tour, where you can see Mortimer's Hole or King David's Dungeon depending on availability. An annual admission ticket allows unlimited revisits for 12 months. The castle grounds host an open-air theatre running June to August. Cave tours run daily, and the venue offers hands-on workshops for school groups exploring historical figures and the site itself.
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.
- Changing mat
- Notebook
- Painkillers for grown-ups
- Cool bag
- Kitchen roll
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
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