Kensington Palace
Museums & Science Centres · Kensington, Inner London
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Closed — opens 10am
🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16EducationalGardensSensory-friendly sessions☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
- Limited parking
- Baby changing
Access & inclusion
- Relaxed / SEN sessions
No on-site parking for general visitors. Accessible parking is available on site for Blue Badge holders by advance booking (at least seven days ahead). Nearest car parks are about a 10 minute walk away.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Kensington Palace is a royal residence in Kensington Gardens that is open to visitors as a historic palace. Families can walk through the King's State Apartments and a set of exhibitions that tell stories from the palace's long history, including the childhood of a future queen. A free audio guide comes with palace admission and is a good way to bring the rooms to life for older children. The gardens around the palace are a pleasant place to walk afterwards, and the Orangery and palace cafe provide lunch and refreshments. Relaxed sessions with fewer crowds are run on some dates, and the palace offers interactive sessions for school groups. Some state rooms are closed for re-presentation until 2027, so check the current position before visiting.
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.
- Car window sunshade
- Umbrella
- Hair bobbles
- Waterproof jacket
- Nappy sacks
- Dummy and a spare
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