Kids and Families
The Bankside riverside is a traffic free riverside walk with a handful of attractions that kids will love...
Have you wondered what it’s like to sail aboard a Tudor galleon? A storytelling session on board the Golden Hinde with costumed actors brings the wonderful story of the voyage of Sir Francis Drake alive.
Shakespeare’s Globe is the ideal place in which to introduce children to Shakespeare. The exhibition includes interactive displays and during school holidays and at weekends, Shakespeare's Globe host costume dressings, sword-fighting displays and performances from The Shakespeare's Globe musicians.
At Tate Modern visit the UBS Openings Family Zone where you can browse books or pick up one of their fun Tate Teasers at any time and get ready to look, listen and draw whilst exploring the galleries. Otherwise join the drop in ‘Start Weekend Sessions’ - a selection of challenging but fun object- and paper-based games to be 
played in the gallery and look out for the ticketed special activities for weekends and school holidays. You can also pick up a fun and interactive multimedia Guide to Tate Modern.
Take the kids to find out what it meant to be a prison inmate in Elizabethan London at The Clink Prison Museum. Here children have the chance to touch and handle original artefacts including torture devices and items of punishment. They will never misbehave again!
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Family Dining
For a bite to eat at lunch time, the choice of restaurants and cafés near the Clink Prison Museum and Golden Hinde is overwhelming:
- Amanos for healthy snacks
- Nandos offers extra mild meals for children and keeps them entertained with fun packs
- Wagamamas for a kids menu with a difference and
- The Anchor Public House for a traditional pub lunch
A little further west along the Bankside riverside walkway, you will find
- Café 2 @ Tate Modern (Time Out's Best Family Restaurant 2007), where the kids' menu is handed out with a pot of wax crayons and art and literacy activities or they can order half-price mains from the adult menu.
- Pizza Express with its menu for 'piccoli' and
- EAT for a wide range of sandwiches
Shakespeare's Globe
The Globe Theatre is a faithful reconstruction of the open air playhouse designed in 1599, where Shakespeare worked and wrote. Go
Young Vic Theatre
One of the country's leading homes for younger theatre artist's especially directors. The theatre present's seasons of works by new directors in tandem with productions with some of the great directors of the world. Go
London Fire Brigade Museum
Old fire-fighting appliances and the history of fire-fighting from 1666 arouse the visitor's admiration for the courage and sheer organisational skills of fire-fighters past and present. Go
