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The best family-friendly museums in the UK: readers’ travel tips

Display at Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds, showing a typical Victorian street
The right medicine … Thackray Medical Museum offers Victorian-era sights (and smells). Photograph: Alamy

Winning tip: Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds

The Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds does an incredible job of helping kids to understand how lucky they are to have vaccinations, antibiotics and even the basics, such as clean water. It’s a Victorian street complete with smells and printed cards (describing nasties like bed bugs), plus it highlights the horrors of cholera and there’s a chance to pick a character and see whether you survived or not. My 18-year-old daughter is adamant her love of science began there 10 years ago.
• Adult £8, 5-16 years £5, family £24.50, thackraymedicalmuseum.co.uk
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