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If we can we will treat ourselves and book the IMAX tickets. Then we walk through Hyde Park heading to Selfridges on Oxford street where the top restaurant (Food Garden Café) has a range of yummy stalls like pancakes, Lebanese, Japanese, Chinese, baked potatoes and fresh fruit juices and smoothies. It's real treat, and kids love to choose their food.

After food we'll go to the floor with children's clothes and toys, which is really unique. Around Christmas they display a lot of pedal cars and other traditional toys for children to try and it's very special.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20190 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20155 This is a lovely Almshouse and museum of interiors for the 'Middling Sort' or middle classes. Living space from the year 1500 to 2000 is set out along a very long corridor. Great fun looking at carpets, wallpaper, lighting and doors and how people lived through the ages. The Edwardian room is my favourite - lovely relaxing reading area with lots of current issues of interior magazines and books. Very child-friendly too.

Lovely reasonable spacious cafe and herb garden outside. A lovely oasis and never busy. Catch it in Nov/Dec when all the room s are decorated in period style for Christmas. Great shop too!]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20155 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20153 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20153 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/19659 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/19659 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16346 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16346 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11464
The fabulous music room has interactive tables where you can listen to music from around the world, and from other centuries, whilst looking at a most extraordinary menagerie of instruments. You can then wander through a secret door into a space where you can play delicately on a dulcimer, or bash out a tune with flip flops on some special pipes.

Next door there are some darkened, mysterious rooms full of mummies, voodoo shrines and bizarre objects of intrigue from around the world.

Wander out of the galleries and into a fab new aquarium with real waves. There are sci fi-like jelly fish, haughty seahorses, and starfish like jesters' hats. Wonder at the groovy anenomes! Dress up as a crab!

Blimey! After that it's time for a spot of v yummy lunch in the very me friendly cafe, and perhaps a little something from the shop (please). And what about the bee room, with real bees, and the stuffed animals. Oh, and there are gardens with rabbits and birds. And a big polar bear upstairs........

I love the Horniman!

From Xavi Maddison (age 10).]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11464 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11252
I also wore a corset. It made my belly thin but it wasn't uncomfortable. A posh teacher used to wear it, she taught at the top of the house.

I saw olden-days shops there with things inside like wooden toys and printers which are not like ours, and a wooden mangle which dries clothes.

I am five years old.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11252 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11148
From Neill Andrew (age 12).]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11148 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/10609
Lots of gears and cogs and flour leaking out. Children can try grinding corn the hard way or the easy way. In the summer there is a small cafe with outdoor seats in the sensory garden. There is also a local collection of bits of history, with things for children to find.
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Now a museum it is being lovingly restored by a team of volunteers after years of neglect and vandalism. Open only 2 days a month with several special Steaming Days. Check the website for details. Well worth the visit.

An easy 30-minute walk from Abbey Wood train station or a short minicab ride from station. It has a large car park if you drive yourself.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/10119 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8939
All Londoners should visit here at least once, to help your understanding of what makes London the unique world city we live in. With lots of interactivity for the children, and well laid out exhibits for the rest of us!

Just one tip; the Museum Cafe is good for a cup of coffee and a sticky bun, but I wouldn't recommend it for lunch.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8939 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8734 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8734 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7620 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/7620 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3383 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3383 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3374 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3374 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3215 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3215 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/1617 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/1617 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/800 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/800 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/573 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/573