THIS weekend is the perfect excuse to get out the house and visit some favourites spots that are guaranteed to make your bank holiday great.
But Sun Online has you covered, and it won’t cost you a pretty penny – as we reveal the best FREE attractions around the UK.
Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh
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The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) was founded in 1670 as a physic garden.
It is now a world-renowned centre for plant science, horticulture and education and extends over four Gardens (Edinburgh, Benmore, Dawyck and Logan) boasting a rich living collection of plants.
Why not enjoy a picnic with the family there, with the lovely weather forecast in Edinburgh this weekend.
Museum of Liverpool
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The stunning new Museum of Liverpool is the world’s first national museum devoted to the history of a regional city, demonstrating Liverpool’s unique contribution to the world.
This free family day includes the stage where John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met, Ben Johnson’s Liverpool Cityscape, a life-size Liverbird, the first Ford Anglia from Ford’s Halewood production line and Chris Boardman’s famous Lotus sport bike.
Don’t miss the 360º immersive films about football and The Beatles.
Manchester Museum, Manchester
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The Manchester Museum is home to an array of treasures from the natural world and the many cultures it is home to.
Highlights include a T Rex and fossils of other pre-historic creatures, ancient Egyptian artefacts and live amphibians and reptiles.
You can handle objects from the collection, take part in hands-on activities or enjoy a glass of wine of cup of coffee whilst exploring the latest ideas in science, culture and the arts.
Borough Market, London
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Borough Market is rich with history, but it remains as relevant now as it has ever been.
As London’s oldest food market, it has been serving the people of Southwark for 1,000 years, and that extraordinary heritage is an important part of its appeal.
You have to pay for the food, but there are plenty of free nibbles offered by stall owners to entice customers into buying some of their items.
National Portrait Gallery, London
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This world-famous museum houses portraits of noted Britons from the Tudors to present day favourites like Ed Sheeran.
Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900.
Located in Trafalgar Square, the National Portrait Gallery is family favourite for a perfect day out in London.
Crystal Palace Dinosaur Park, London
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Crystal Palace Park, in south London, is home to an extraordinary collection of statues depicting dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
These were built in the 1850s by the sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.
They were the world’s first attempts to create life-size, scientifically accurate models of beasts known only from fossils.
The statues were based on brand-new, fragmentary evidence, plus the best scientific thinking of the day.
Free Bath tours with locals, Bath
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A genuinely free service (tips are NOT accepted) providing daily walking tours in Bath that received the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in 2014.
These tours include the main sights in the city centre – Abbey Church Yard, Queen Square, Royal Crescent, Circus etc.
From May to September, additional free tours on Tuesday and Thursday at 11.00 to Great Pulteney Street, the Kennet and Avon canal, the 18th century Sydney Gardens, the Holburne Museum (exterior but you can leave here) and back to city centre.
All walking tours leave from outside the entrance to Roman Baths and Pump Room in Abbey Church Yard and last approximately two hours.
Roskilly’s Farm, St Keverne, Cornwall
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Roskilly’s are based at Tregellast Barton Farm – a family run business milking 125 Jersey cows – on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall.
The farm’s small pastures have been farmed in a traditional and sustainable way for generations, without the use of pesticides and artificial fertilisers.
Every day kids can watch the dairy cows being milked at around 4pm.
Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth
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Investigate the origins of Sherlock Holmes at the Portsmouth Museum.
If you’ve got a smartphone then download the Portsmouth Writers app and turn yourself into a master detective with the Magnifying Sherlock tour.
Follow the trail of the ultimate super-sleuth, Sherlock Holmes and his creator Arthur Conan Doyle, who lived and worked in Portsmouth.
Don’t have a smartphone? Don’t worry – a series of video screens around A Study in Sherlock will take you on a completely new, exciting and different adventure introduced by Stephen Fry.
Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve, Northumberland
Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve a 3,541-hectare (8,750-acre) UK national nature reserve, was founded to help safeguard the internationally important wintering bird populations.
Six internationally important species of wildfowl and wading birds winter here.
For the pale-bellied brent geese from Svalbard, this is their only regular wintering place in all of the United Kingdom.
Pinkfooted and greylag geese, wigeons, grey plovers and bar-tailed godwits are the other visitors.
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