SS Great Britain
Museums & Science Centres · Bristol, Bristol & Bath
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Closed — opens 10am
🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16Educational☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
- Baby changing
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Bristol Dockyards is built around Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Britain, the world's largest passenger ship when it launched in 1843 and one of the first iron, propeller-driven ocean liners. The new museum combines interactive exhibitions with historic artefacts, exploring the ship's 41 years of service and the people who built it, the migrants who travelled aboard, and the Bristol communities connected to its story. Families can walk the decks, take part in interactive challenges inspired by the ship's global voyages, and explore hands-on activities across the 200-year-old dockyard. The site also includes the Being Brunel Museum and the Brunel Institute, home to one of the world's finest maritime collections.
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.
- Gloves
- Changing mat
- Camera for them
- Tissues
- Bibs
- Woolly hat
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