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Fun things to do with kids in South Kensington

Looking for family-friendly activities in South Kensington? Dive into a world of exploration and experimentation with interactive experiences tailored for families. From music and science to arts, performance, film, parks, playgrounds, immersive galleries, and beyond, there's plenty of inspiring fun for your kids to discover!

Fixing Our Broken Planet Gallery

Open daily from 3rd April.
10:00am - 5:50pm
Natural History Museum
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The Museum is excited to finally share Fixing Our Broken Planet, their first new permanent gallery since 2016! Explore the biggest challenges facing the planet and discover science-backed, hopeful solutions that will help us to create a more sustainable world.

Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth?

16th May-22nd Feb 2026
10am-6pm
Natural History Museum
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Touch a piece of Mars, wrap your hands around a fragment of the Moon and snap a selfie with the Allende meteorite, which – at 4.567 billion years old – is even older than Earth!

Our Story with David Attenborough

Open now until Jan 2026
10am - 5:50pm
Natural History Museum
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Our Story with David Attenborough delves into the saga of our species from our earliest beginnings. Sir David draws on a nearly century-long career as he shares his hopes for people and planet.

Future of Food

24th July-4th Jan 2026
10am-6pm
Science Museum
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A free exhibition examining how science can help us find more sustainable ways to grow and produce, purchase and cook, eat and enjoy food to help protect the planet.

Serpentine Pavilion 2025 by Marina Tabassum

6th June - 26th Oct
Serpentine
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Enjoy the Serpentine Pavilion 2025, A Capsule in Time, designed by Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) - stop and enjoy the small cafe inside on your visit.

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Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs

30th July-9th Nov
10am-8pm
Japan House London
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This brand new exhibition celebrates the beauty and precision inherent in Japanese design through the exploration of pictograms – both past and present – and their future potential for international communication.

Back to the Future in Concert

26th Oct
2:30pm & 7:30pm
Royal Albert Hall
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Experience the thrill of Back to the Future like never before, as part of the Hall's Films in Concert series.

Spider-Man: No Way Home in Concert

14th Nov
7:30pm
Royal Albert Hall
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Swing by the World Premiere of Spider-Man: No Way Home in Concert, and hear the film's iconic soundtrack performed live-to-picture for the first time ever.

Fun DMC

28th Oct
1pm-3pm
Royal Albert Hall
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Once again the world’s one and only (and therefore best) family block party returns to Royal Albert Hall's Elgar Room for an afternoon of family fun!

IMAX 70MM Season

Various dates and times
Science Museum
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From Christopher Nolan’s genre-defining Batman trilogy to his Oscar-winning epic Oppenheimer, experience a season of stunning IMAX 70mm film classics at the Science Museum this autumn.

Discovery Days: Hair raising Halloween

28th - 30th Oct
11am - 3pm
The Royal Parks
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Spook-tacular free family activities! Come and join this October half-term at the Hyde Park Learning Centre for our scarily good Halloween Discovery Days.

London Design Festival

13th-21st Sept
Various times
V&A South Kensington
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Discover a series of contemporary installations, workshops, talks and more, exploring design’s response to crisis and urgent issues – from natural resource extraction, cultural heritage at risk, geo-political conflicts to AI.

Brompton Design District

13th-21st Sept
Various times
South Kensington
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Brompton Design District is a design hub during the London Design Festival featuring a mix of global design brands & cultural institutions alongside a curated programme of exhibits with a reputation for nurturing inventive design by independent designers.

Digital Design Weekend 2025

19th - 21st Sept
Various times
V&A South Kensington
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Join artists and designers for a weekend of free workshops, immersive experiences and demonstrations exploring the intersection of art, design and technology.

Pop-up Performance: Caribbean Storytelling

6th Sept - 6th Dec
11am- 3:.40pm
V&A South Kensington
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Celebrate Caribbean culture through fun family activities, games, and stories.

Wish, Make, Celebrate!

27th Sept – 1st Nov
11am-4pm
V&A South Kensington
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Wish, Make and Celebrate is a new space for families to explore what brings you joy, through creating a wish, and celebrating the things that makes you happy! This event is free.

Family Fun: Minibeasts and the Garden

20th Sept
11am - 12:30pm & 2:30pm - 4pm
Leighton House and Sambourne House
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Explore the Leighton House garden to see what minibeasts are living there, their habitats and how we can help provide places for them to live back at our own homes. Free museum entry for accompanying adult.

Marina Willer x Pith: Sketching with Stickers

13th – 21st Sept
10am-5pm
Design Museum
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For this year's London Design Festival, Pith® and Marina Willer are collaborating to create an exhibition of expressive and playful sketchbooks, each containing an original artwork by Marina made of colourful stickers forming intricate compositions.

October Design Camps

October
Various times
Design Museum
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A programme of activities designed for children and young people to get creative, including our popular half-term Design Camps.

Work Experience Week in the Language Department

23rd - 27th March 2026
10am-4pm
Goethe-Institut
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Would you like to gain hands-on experience in an international cultural institution? Join this one-week work experience programme at the Goethe-Institut London and explore the work of our language and educational services departments. Apply now!

Star Wars: The Force Awakens in Concert (12A)

15th Nov
2:30pm or 7:30pm
Royal Albert Hall
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Experience Star Wars: The Force Awakens in concert with John Williams' score performed live by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, conducted by Ludwig Wicki.

Courses for Children and Young Learners

Various dates and times
Goethe-Institut
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Vibrant, in-person German courses for children and teens aged 6-17. From beginner classes to creative options like Coding & German, young learners enjoy a hands-on, engaging approach to language learning – right here in South Kensington.

Space Opening Weekend

20th & 21st Sept
Science Museum
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Celebrate the new Space gallery with a galaxy of free activities over opening weekend, as well as screening and experiences across the Autumn.

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year

17th Oct - 12th July 2026
10am-6pm
Natural History Museum
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Pause, reflect and reconnect with the natural world through images that celebrate nature’s awe-inspiring beauty and urge us to protect it. Now in its sixth decade, the exhibition sees photographers from across the globe set out to document nature’s most incredible moments.