Where kids go FREE all year round

London Transport Museum – free for children 17 and under with a paying adult, tickets £17.50. Open 10am-6pm, 0207 379 6344/www.ltmu-seum.co.uk

■ You can get a taste for the rural life at one of the UK’s many free children’s farms including Deen City Farm, near Wimbledon (open Tuesday-Sunday, 10pm4.30pm, 0208 543 5300/www.de-encityfarm. co.uk; Stonebridge City Farm, Nottingham, open daily, 10am-4pm, 0115 950 5113/www. stonebridgecityfarm.com; and Bath City Farm, open Monday-Saturday, 9am-5pm, 01225 481269/ www.bathcityfarm.org.uk

With a Scot-Rail ticket, children aged 5-15 can travel free and get free entry to many Scottish attractions including Edinburgh Zoo, The Royal Yacht Britannia and Scottish Seabird Centre. For more info contact 0344 811 0141/www.scotrail. co.uk/offers/kids-go-free-deals

And where you go free too…

■ Natural History Museum, London – from meteors and dinosaur eggs to Neanderthal skulls, you can easily spend a full day exploring. Open daily 10am5.50pm, 0207 942 5000/www.nhm.ac.uk ■ National Railway Museum, York – get up close with some of the most historic trains ever made. Open daily, 10am-5pm, 0333 016 1010/www.nrm.org.uk Manchester Museum of Science and Industry – children can experiment with making a tornado, seeing their own skeleton or testing their reactions on the speed of light. Open daily, 10am-5pm, 0161 832 2244/ www.msimanchester.org.uk

House of Marbles, Devon – see the UK’s largest marble run and explore unusual games, puzzles and toys. Open daily, 9am-5pm with a 10am opening on Sundays. 01626 835285/ www.houseofmarbles.com