Museum of London Docklands

I'm pretty mean with my star ratings and very critical, so 5 stars from me really means something!

The staff are warm, helpful, friendly and humorous. The museum is extremely user-friendly: there is a FREE cloakroom you can leave bags and coats, plenty of CLEAN toilets, a LIFT, and even a cold mineral water dispenser, from which you can fill up your water bottle free of charge. To top it all, they give you fold-up seats to carry around with you so you can rest as you read or study the exhibitions.

The exhibits are fascinating and extremely well laid out. There isn't too much for kids so the museum isn't trivialised or "Disneyfied".

You get the feeling that an enormous amount of trouble has been gone to in every respect to make your visit informative and comfortable. These guys could teach other museum staff a few lessons!

We had a 2-for-1 discount voucher that anyone can get from the railways (ATOC) so we only paid about L4 each to get in.

A perfect day out. Cannot recommend it highly enough.

At last I managed to get to this museum - having had it on my list of attractions to 'get too' for some time! - So glad I did as we spent most of the afternoon wondering around the Museum of Slavery which we found incredibly moving and most informative, The afternoon we were there (2/6/09) there was an artist in attendance, so we were able to talk to her about her delightful work having painted some of the oldest people in the world in Dominica. - This was an added bonus to our visit.

The staff at the museum were very helpful too - can well recommend an afternoon spent here.

My husband was the one that wanted to go here and it sounded okay. But it was a very well done museum that told the history of the docks/port of London, which is a large part of the history of London. Really very interesting starting around 100 BC up to current day. Spent about 2 hours and could have spent more.