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10 Best Museums In Warwickshire
Ten museums here, and the line dividing them runs between inside and outside rather than between large and small. Four record outdoor space. Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park puts a gallery inside grounds you are meant to walk. Shakespeare's Birthplace involves a street, a garden and standing about. Midland Air Museum has aircraft parked in the open, which is the whole draw for most children. Tudor World records a little outside too. In warm weather those four grow: a two-hour visit stretches into most of a day. Cold rain shrinks them back to whatever sits under a roof, and that is not always the half your child came for.
Top museums in Warwickshire
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MuseumsBritish Motor Museum
MuseumsRoyal Shakespeare Company
MuseumsThe MAD Museum
MuseumsCompton Verney Art Gallery and Park
MuseumsMidland Air Museum
MuseumsShakespeare's Birthplace
MuseumsLeamington Spa Art Gallery
MuseumsTudor World
MuseumsRugby Art Gallery and Museum
MuseumsStratford Armouries
The other six behave the same in any month. British Motor Museum and The MAD Museum are large halls that neither gain nor lose from the sky, and Leamington Spa Art Gallery is a quiet indoor stop. Flagging one oddity: this category holds Royal Shakespeare Company, which is of course a working theatre and not a gallery at all. Look at what is on before turning up expecting to wander in.
Museums in Warwickshire: FAQs
Which of these gains the most from a warm dry day?
Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, comfortably. The grounds are the larger half of it and children who have run the lawns will sit through a gallery afterwards in a way they would not have done cold. Turn up in heavy rain and you are left with the indoor rooms alone, which is a decent visit but a much shorter one than the place is capable of.
Is an aircraft collection any good in poor weather?
Partly. The hangar side of Midland Air Museum stays usable, but the aircraft standing outside are the ones children want to walk around, and doing that in driving rain lasts about as long as it sounds. If the aircraft are the draw and the forecast says otherwise, shift the date. Salvage jobs rarely work here.
Our eight-year-old thinks museums are boring. Anything here?
The MAD Museum runs on machines that move when a child makes them move, nothing like a case of labelled objects, and it plays the same in any month. British Motor Museum works on scale instead. Neither asks a child to read their way through the visit, which is the usual point where a museum trip quietly falls apart.
Can we pair two of these in one day?
Yes, and in the colder months it is often the better plan, since the shorter indoor stops leave a child fresher than one long visit does. Pair a large hall with a small gallery rather than two large halls. Do the one your child chose first, because the second is where attention runs out regardless of which order you settle on.