
What’s there
- Café on site
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Camera Museum is a small non-profit museum gallery in Bloomsbury, central London, presenting a timeline of cameras of many makes and types from the nineteenth century up to the current digital era. The collection is compact, so a visit suits an older child or teenager with an interest in photography, technology or design, or a family looking for a short, indoor stop while exploring the museums nearby. Younger children are admitted free, which makes it an easy addition to a day out in the area. The venue sits alongside a coffee shop and a camera shop on the same site, so there is also somewhere to sit down between displays. Because the gallery is modest in size, it is best treated as a focused visit rather than a full day's entertainment, and families may wish to plan a longer outing around it.
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.
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Notebook
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
- Colouring book and pencils
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Audiobook or story CD
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