London Canal Museum
Museums & Science Centres · King's Cross, Inner London
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 10am
🏠 Indoor3–55–88–1212–16Educational
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The London Canal Museum sits in a former ice warehouse built in the 1860s for the ice cream maker Carlo Gatti, beside the Regent's Canal basin at King's Cross. Families can peer down into one of the preserved ice wells in the ground floor, step inside a cramped narrowboat cabin and learn how the canals were built and worked. Exhibits cover the horses that pulled boats and ice carts, the cargoes carried, and the people who lived on the water. Archive film and recorded memories of former canal workers bring the story to life, and a tug and a canal boat can be seen from the wharf outside. It suits school-age children and older children who enjoy history, engineering or transport, and it is a short visit of around one to two hours. Boat trips run on some days in season and are booked separately.
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
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
- Painkillers for grown-ups
- Portable phone charger
- Hair bobbles
- Plasters
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