Since moving to London from Los Angeles three years ago, my hubby and I spend many-a-weekend exploring the innumerable galleries and museums that London has to offer. The Science Museum in South Kensington was quickly established as a firm favourite, but since discovering the museum’s Basement last month, our love of this place is bordering on obsessive.

The Basement is a teeny slice of toddler heaven. From its squelchy path and rubber tubes that separate the play areas, to the plethora of buttons daring little fingers to push them and the objects demanding to be climbed, the Basement is a tactile playground for energetic explorers. We love watching our frenzied toddler dash from room to room pushing one of the museum’s many wheelbarrows, stopping periodically to collect trinkets from the various play stations.

The hotspot of Basement is unquestionably the water play area; A series of tubes, tunnels, pumps, dams, taps, and fountains flanked by children, all vying for this valuable piece of real estate. We always have a good chuckle watching little ones fight hard to maintain their position along the water play area – lots of little eyes sizing up their neighbour’s portion of water highway.

After a long day of museum trekking (or even after a naughty shopping trip in Knightsbridge) the Basement is an absolute must visit.

Nestled in the heart of beautiful Bloomsbury sits the most remarkable of private gardens; Coram’s Fields. I was first turned on to this spot by Maggie of Chic Little Baby and after visiting earlier last month, we cannot wait to go back.

Coram’s Fields offers children and parents 7 acres of beautiful parkland, outfitted with state-of-the-art play areas (there is a flying fox) for the bigger kids and for the little ones the park boasts the hugest sand pit I have ever seen (there is a moat running through it).

There are geese, chickens and goats dotted about the fields, although the animals that seem to capture most hearts are the steel sheep installed in the play area. And guess what else? Only adults accompanied by children are allowed in Coram’s Fields. This mama likey!

The Horniman is a wonderfully obscure museum in Dulwich that we went to this past weekend. I don’t even know where to begin when praising this place – from the unbelievable permanent collection,  a hands-on section – where children and adults can interact with over 3,700 different objects (reproduction ancient Innuit dolls, puppets, instruments, you name it) gardens that could compete with Kew, and a stellar aquarium among many other things. The Myths and Monsters exhibition that they have on until September was so much fun – I know that this phrase is often used but this is a place that the entire family can enjoy. Truly. We can’t wait to go back.