Indoor Activities in Canterbury

Move the history indoors rather than abandoning it. Canterbury Roman Museum and The Beaney both keep the subject matter and lose the weather, which means the trip you planned survives in a smaller form. If the children have already had their fill of old things, Escape Kent and Sidequest Gamer's Hub Canterbury flip the subject completely.

Escape Kent gives a group a room and a problem, which suits older children who prefer doing to looking. Sidequest Gamer's Hub Canterbury is the screens-and-tables option. Canterbury Leisure sits under activity centres and covers the need to move about. Three entries is not a huge choice, but it is enough to break up a weekend that has been heavy on cathedrals and cobbles.

Four of the thirteen open onto outdoor space too. Most families will know Canterbury Cathedral and Wingham Wildlife Park, with Bursted Hill Stables making up the set. Aim at those four when the sky is undecided: stepping outside need not finish the visit, and coming back in need not finish the day.

For a single wet day, comfortably. For a full weekend indoors, it will look thin by Sunday afternoon, and the honest answer is to plan on mixing the indoor list with time spent walking the city itself. The numbers on this page track live listings, so they shift whenever a venue arrives, shuts or changes what it tells us.