Kid-Friendly Oxford

The world's first university museum — free, with major collections of art and archaeology.

A specialist collection of historical musical instruments, from medieval to modern.

One of the oldest libraries in Europe — the Divinity School, Duke Humfrey's Library, and the Radcliffe Camera.

The 23-metre Saxon-medieval tower at the centre of Oxford — climb 99 steps for a four-way panorama.

Oxford's own ice cream since 1992 — handmade, inventive, and open past midnight.

Scientific instruments from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, in the world's oldest surviving purpose-built museum.

The bench at the back of the Botanic Garden where, in the closing chapter of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Lyra and Will promise to sit at noon on Midsummer's day every year.

Norman castle (1071) and former Victorian prison — the medieval mound, St George's Tower, and 1,000 years of overlapping use.

Dinosaurs, dodos, and Darwin's legacy — all under a Gothic Revival iron-and-glass roof.

A Victorian cabinet of curiosities — shrunken heads, totem poles, and half a million objects from every culture on earth.

The site, in the Oxford Botanic Garden, of the Pinus nigra under which J.R.R. Tolkien 'often spent his time reposing'.

The University's church on the High Street, with one of the best tower views in Oxford and a 13th-century spire.

Authentic Italian gelato in the Covered Market.