Milestones is a new museum in Basingstoke.  It looks very new from the outside but is full of very old things inside.

Once you'd paid, you looked down on all the houses below you.  When you went downstairs you got one of those talking hand set things.  As you moved about there were little signs to tell you which number to press.  Often the voice gave you more numbers to press to hear more.  I listened to everything.

It's like a little village split into three parts.  The first part is from the Industrial Revolution.  The second bit is before the First World War and the last bit is the 1930s.

Building : Brand new, purpose build & very large single room - like a half underground aircraft hanger

Contents : Fair

Toilets : Clean and modern but all the way back upstairs by the entrance 

Cafe : Didn't use.

Shop : Medium size.  I didn't get anything.

Guide Book : Produced before the museum was finished, so it had no pictures of the museum itself and had bits which didn't exist

Crowds : Plenty of room to move about.

Best Bit : The talking hand set.

Worst Bit : Being told off for eating inside the museum.

Dad's Comment : An excellent, modern museum.  The talking handset kept my son entertained even though he doesn't normally like that kind of thing.

Grandma and Mummy outside Kingdoms