Let one of Santa's special helpers entertain your children with games, role play, storytelling and song, all from home.

London gets itself a new Lord Mayor (its 801st, no less) on Saturday, and marks the occasion with one of the most colourful and exuberant parades on the city’s calendar.

Get ready to discover works by household names and emerging artists at our annual celebration of art and creativity.

SOHO FOOD FEAST is back again for its tenth year in 2020, working with some of London's top restaurants to raise money for Soho Parish primary school. This years event takes place over the weekend of Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th June.

Celebrate Easter with our annual Easter extravanganza at the Royal Mews! Take part in our annual treasure trail around the Royal Mews to win a chocolate prize, and enjoy making sparkling springtime arts and crafts as a family, from transforming winter twigs to beautiful flowers and making jewel covered Easter eggs.

Enjoy two free workshops at The National Portrait Gallery with your family!

Explore the Museum this Easter as you hunt for Billy Brown! Pick up a hunt card at the Family Desk to help you track him down (he'll be hiding our galleries!) and decipher the clues to find out who he is and what his job is.

Charlie Cockroach and Alex the snail invite you to come and meet them and their minibeasts friends at the library.

Drop-in football sessions for 5 to 12 year olds in one of London's most beautiful parks.

Ventura Wildlife Park is an interactive wildlife centre home to over 55 species of rare, beautiful and endangered animals from around the world. Located within approximately 3 acres of beautiful grounds on the outskirts of Ware in Hertfordshire this is one of the UK’s new wildlife parks and concentrates of delivering an interactive wildlife adventure for all ages and abilities to enjoy. Whether you want to spend a few hours, half a day or the whole day you will have fun discovering a variety of different animals including lemur, zebra, monkey, kangaroo, giant tortoise, crocodile, and kookaburra. Plus enjoy discovering rarely seen animals including the fossa, binturong, red-rumped agouti and the Cuban hutia.

Visit the second biggest Conservatory in London and explore our hidden tropical oasis in the heart of the city.

Bring your child for a funny party!

Walk through, over and under colourful aquatic worlds from the tropical to the Arctic at one of London’s busiest attractions It’s not every day that you see sharks and penguins in London, but on the South Bank you can. Almost literally, too, if it wasn’t for the fact that Sea Life London Aquarium is closed on Christmas day. Thousands of tourists and local alike visit this old council building daily, which has been home to a remarkable watery wonderland since 1997.

February Half Term We have plenty of things to do for kids this half term, including free family trails, as well as the chance to explore our favourite toys, sweets and household goods for the past 150 years. The perfect opportunity to get the whole family talking!

Smriti Prasadam-Halls & Robert Starling: The Little Island

You're Never Too Young to Change the World

Come and meet Bagpuss, see the Soup Dragon and behold Noggin the Nog. Oliver Postgate’s voice and Peter Firmin’s puppets shaped the childhood memories of millions since they started collaborating in the 1950s

Buy food, crafts, and more at this event. Celebrates the skills of Welsh companies.

Our Natural History Gallery first opened in 1901, the design influenced by the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements of the time. Many of the original showcases remain, packed full of taxidermy, skeletons and specimens preserved in fluid, giving the gallery a unique historic feel. Most of the specimens, including our taxidermy mount of a walrus were collected over 100 years ago during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. This was a time when naturalists and collectors were exploring the globe.

A nature garden for children and their carers to enjoy together. Picnic, pond dip, garden, cook or join in with workshops teaching woodwork, gardening, bush craft skills and more.

Reset, relax and read together in the Manton Studio

Explore the Museum!

PLAN52 is one of our top-secret locations and a fortress for highly classified archives and data. However, something terrible has happened: four of our agents who were stationed there have vanished without a trace. We now have proof that this was the work of Professor BlackSheep who had help from a clueQuest insider.

Discover the story of the world’s greatest trading city.

Three levels of indoor soft play fun! Race down the slides, climb the cargo nets and launch through the giant rollers.