My play date with Sandra today started off with a visit to the London Transport Museum. Yes we are just big kids at heart! The Museum is located in the heart of Covent Garden and underwent a re-furb not too long ago. At over £12 to get in, it’s a little expensive for adults (or kid-ults like us) to get in but free for those under 16. Luckily we were able to use a 2-4-1 offer for the day to reduce the cost a bit.

The Museum has effectively three floors and there is definitely plenty to occupy for the little ones … and a little bit less so for the bigger ones! Still, if you have a interest in the history of London Transport, its quite a good museum and there is heaps of memorabilia, such as copper tokens (as opposed to tickets), old maps, adverts etc. to get through.

The lift amusingly goes up (or more technically down) by years rather than floor numbers.

The top floor is dedicated to 19th century London.

Level 1 starts to see the Growth of the Surburbs – and it is on this level that a kind of interactive bit for the kids exists e.g. they get to dress up and drive a bus, play interactive quizzes, and there is even a Guess Who of London Transport workers to play.

Finally the bottom floor has all the demonstrate buses etc.. and also exhibitions on London during the war (quite sobering) and a closer look at the workings of the Underground.

It took us just over an hour to work our way through the museum but that was probably because we didn’t read every single little thing … on the other hand we did waste some time climbing every demonstration bus and playing in the kids interactive area (the clothes were very tiny – we could only fit the caps on – heh heh!)

I can see this would be a great place to bring the little ones to play – next time I’ll have to borrow one! 😉