day out in LONDON to fit in with ROMANS and TUDORS topics?

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my dds are 7 and 9 and are history mad. one is doing a Romans topic at school, the other is learning about the Tudors.

does anyone know of a london museum/ attraction where they could find out about both? or maybe 2 separate museums close to each other?

tia

The museum of London covers both these periods of history as far as I remember. It is very good for children and quite near the Barbican ( which often has free lunch time activities for youngsters) and London Wall.

museum of london is definitely your best bet for Romans.
it's not far at all from there to the Tower, which is amazing if you're doing the Tudors

Definitely the Museum of London.

Ditto!

From the museum of London, you can walk past bits of the old wall to here and see London's Roman amphitheatre! We only discovered it recently, it's in the bottom of the Guildhall art gallery, is free to get in and quite impressive. Had a great day out doing this with dd (9) in the summer.

aah thanks everyone. thats reslly, really useful .

ok, next questions ... how long am i likely to want to spend at each venue (roughly)? and are they within easy walking distance of each other?

tia

Ooh I am planning on going to the Museum of London tomorrow as DD is doing the plague and Great Fire this term. Anyone know of a place to eat nearby? And is Southbank within walking distance?

there's a pizza express on the Barbican v. near to the museum.
Carluccio's is on west smithfield.
Comptoir Gascon is on Charterhouse street and does the best patisserie this side of Paris - I would call in for takeaway if you don't decide to eat there.

useful hijack, angry

you can walk to the Southbank, but it might take a while. I'd go via st. Paul's and the (ex) wibbly wobbly bridge. There's also lots of nice cafes near st. Paul's. Apostrophe does good cake.

Oops sorry!

It is my birthday tomorrow too so I am damn well getting a nice lunch out of it

You could easily spend the day at the museum, especially if there are extra activities happening, but the amphitheatre is only a 15 min visit, unless you then do the rest of the art gallery. It takes about 15 mins to walk between the two, but you might want to walk a bit slower to look at the wall and any other intreating buildings. Think we walked along noble street, then Gresham street and there were signs about the wall to stop and read. If you then walked to bank station, another 5 mins, you can catch the Waterloo and city line tube, which goes straight to Waterloo, right next to the south bank. Not sure about food, therevis a cafe at the museum and chain places along cheapside.

thanks bb.

Museum of London is particularly good for plague and great fire. I would guess a good couple of hours for the museum. Follow the raised walkways towards the Barbican if going from museum to Pizza Express(check when it is open). You can see some of the old London wall from up there although I have forgotten who built it! There is also the old Whitbread brewery (lambs passage) which I think is now a drayhorse museum or similar.

ok. just been looking at tower of london website and am now worried that its too ambitious to go there AND museum of london in one day.

what do you think? how long would i need for the tower?

we may decide to leave the museum for another time. dd2 wouldnt feel left out if we do anything linked to her topic, as she did a topic on london last term, so will get a lot out of the tower experience, i think.

We went to the tower with tesco vouchers this week, fab value. And you can get straight onto a clipper boat going up to the embankment/ London eye, or down to Greenwich.

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going to folks. i'm to aim just to do the tower, and go to the museum of london next time. we're only just over an 1hr by train from london, so its not necessary to overfill our day, as can return soon. thanks

i like boat idea...

eh....? i really should proofread!

Museum is fine for a winters day trip, so good thing to see Tower in the last of warmer weather.

I know that this is an old thread but I just posted this review about Hampton Court Palace......

I went to Hampton Court Palace in December 2011 with my partner and two children aged 9 and 7. Oldest child had just "done" tudors at school and I remembered Hampton Court from when I was a child so we thought we'd give it a go. It was good value I thought, at £36 for a family ticket (up to 6 children can come if you have that many!). I can honestly say it was the best day out we have ever had. We all dressed up in cloaks at the start and felt very regal as we walked round. Throughout the day there were a series of actors/activities which made you think that you were really evesdropping on life in Henry's castle. For example, in the kitchen the cooks were cooking real food, which was later served up to Henry for dinner. Every time Henry came along you had to curtsy/bow and everyone got really into the make-believe. i really wanted to rush up to the Katherine Howard actor and tell her that she was going to get her head chopped off - it was so believable. The children could join in with learning how to be a minstrel (then playing in a group for Henry) or putting on a nativity for Henry. Anyone who wanted to be involved could be - no one was left out. The time between 10 - 4pm whizzed by and there was loads to do. The children talked about the day all the way home in the car and we are still buzzing about it now. Go - now - but make sure that it is a day when the actors are going to be there! It was an amazing day!

Museum of London is built right next to original Roman walls, next to the Barbican.

For Tudors, it has to be Hampton Court.