🏠 Indoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16Educational☔ Rainy-day friendly🆓 Free entry
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free 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.
Dorset Museum spans four floors of natural history, people's history, and art. The Natural Dorset Gallery covers 250 million years of geology, landscapes, habitats and wildlife. People's Dorset explores 500,000 years of history from the Palaeolithic to the present on themes of land, sea and community. Hardy's Dorset looks at Thomas Hardy and other writers. Artists' Dorset holds paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, textiles, and decorative art. Family trails and activity events run regularly; a current summer activity is a treasure chest hunt through the galleries where children spot and count nine hidden miniature chests. There is a café.
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
- Spare outfit
- Audiobook or story CD
- Hand sanitiser
- Lunch boxes
- Baby carrier or slingBetter than a pram anywhere with steps or mud.
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