Scottish fisher girls, miniskirts, a trip down a pit...who says that museums are boring? Dymphna Byrne chooses ten great family days out guaranteed to bring history alive.

From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) | Date: March 27, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: DYMPHNA BYRNE

EASTER is the perfect time for family outings to museums - but which ones? Here we help you choose from a list of the best. These ten are in the running for the Gulbenkian award, an annual prize of [pounds sterling]100,000 given to the British museum or art gallery that showed the most imaginative and engaging initiative in the past year.

THE CREAM OF NORTH DEVON

Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon

THIS museum on the banks of the Taw, housed in the former home of a railway master from the 1800s, tells the natural and human history of the ...

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