✨ Free Attractions to visit in the North East ✨
We have some fantastic Free entry attractions in the North East. There's loads of really good places to visit and it took a while to choose the below. I have picked 5 places in each area to give you plenty of ideas.
Sunderland
✨Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
✨National Glass Centre
✨Fans Museum
✨St Peter's church
✨Visit the beaches at Seaburn/Roker you can also head over to one of the play parks to fill more of the day.
Gateshead
✨Shipley Art Gallery
✨Saltwell park
✨Baltic
✨Bill Quay farm
✨St Mary's heritage centre
Durham
✨Durham Cathedral
✨The Story
✨Oriental museum
✨Archaeology Museum
✨Locomotion
Teesside
✨Hopetown Darlington
✨Teessaurus Park
✨Dorman Museum
✨MIMA
✨Stewart Park
Northumberland
✨Grace Darling museum
✨Hexham abbey
✨Barter Books
✨Northumberlandia
✨Kielder Forest - Forestry England
Newcastle
✨Great North Museum: Hancock
✨Discovery Museum
✨Newcastle Cathedral
✨Laing Art Gallery
✨Lit & Phil
A few ideas for further away
North Yorkshire
✨National Railway Museum - York
✨Filey Museum
✨Boggle hole fossil hunt
✨Falling Foss
✨York's cat trail
Don't forget some attractions offer free entry for Universal credit recipients
Use any annual passes you may have - for us, our most used annual passes include:
National Trust , English Heritage , Beamish Museum , The Deep , Alnwick Castle , WWT Washington Wetland Centre.
