Dorset
County Museum is a great place for families! Visitors
of all ages are welcome to look around the Museum and its fantastic galleries
and collections, learn about the past, and have fun at the same time. Children
can pick up one of four Museum Trails at reception to follow while they explore
the Museum. Dorset
County Museum has a huge range of displays and interactive units designed to appeal
to both adults and children. During the year the Museum also runs a varied programme
of events and activities ranging from making tiles, plaiting horses out of rushes
and finding our about Roman food, games and mosaics. Subjects for family activities
in 2008 include cave paintings, heraldic banners, puppets and Roman armour. Many
of the Museum's Galleries have interactive workstations and specific challenges
and activities for children such as the fossil discovery table in the Geology
Gallery. In addition there are activity carts in the Victorian Gallery and in
the Archaeology Gallery to keep children amused with puzzles, quizzes, dressing
up and drawing activities based around the Museum collections. What
is there to do?
Both children and grown-ups can explore the collections in
exciting and fun ways with our gallery trails and carts, special school holiday
events and the Family Activity sessions held on one Saturday every month. For
children aged between 9 and 15 years we also have the Museum Club, which meets
one Saturday per month. Follow
Monty Mouse around the museum with younger children or test your super sleuth
skills with the Roman Quiz. | 
