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World-class shopping

Where are you heading? If shopping is your passion, you’ll love thecentre:mk. This world-class undercover shopping centre attracts 30 million shoppers every year with more than 230 top stores, high street names and independent retailers. Midsummer Place is our stylish fashion quarter with an irresistible collection of designer clothing and high-tech home entertainment stores. If you love one-off stores and traders, then head for the charming picture postcard towns and villages that surround our city. Try Stony Stratford, Woburn and Olney for quaint high streets and well-stocked farmers’ markets.

Art, culture and events

Culture lovers are spoilt for choice with our crowd-pulling venues and exhibitions. Browse at the award-winning Milton Keynes Gallery with its superb displays of contemporary art. Enjoy our city’s large collection of public sculptures, one of the biggest in the UK, with striking works by acclaimed artists all around the city.

Explore our surprising history. Tour Bletchley Park, now a museum attracting visitors from all over the world, and discover the secret headquarters of the ingenious war-time code-breakers. Trace the intriguing history of our region from 1800 to the present day at Milton Keynes Museum.

Our theatre and events get top billing too. Take in a show featuring West End stars at famous MK Theatre. Visit The Bowl, our stunning 65,000 seat venue, which plays host to superstars like David Bowie, Robbie Williams, Take That and Bon Jovi.

Move

Everything is so easy to get to. It’s something everyone notices. Our grid system makes travelling by car or bus so easy and quick. Or if you’re under your own steam, you can whizz around on Redways that criss-cross the city with more than 270 kilometres of safe routes for cyclists and pedestrians.

It’s show time

Love entertainment. Any time is show time in Milton Keynes. Our striking MK Theatre is the busiest outside London’s West End and attracts top stars and famous shows throughout the year. For major music events, there’s The National Bowl. This is our vast outdoor venue holding up to 65,000 people and has played host to sell-out concerts featuring stars like Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Take That, Robbie Williams and Bon Jovi.

Pubs&Clubs

If you’re looking for great nightlife with a mind-boggling mix of pubs and clubs, then Milton Keynes is the destination for you. There’s always something happening in this energetic, pulsating and cosmopolitan new city. However you want to spend your evenings, Milton Keynes can offer some of the best pub and club destinations in the country.

Extreme sports

Sports fans love Milton Keynes. No wonder. It’s the extreme sports capital of the UK with adrenaline-pumping excitement right in the heart of the city.
Step onto real snow and ski, snowboard or toboggan at the SNO!zone, one of the biggest indoor snow slopes in the country. Or defy gravity and fly like a bird at the amazing indoor skydiving centre Airkix. An unforgettable experience. Or if you don’t mind getting wet then head over to Wake MK for one of the UK’s newest and highest tech cable centres for waterskiers and boarders.

Wide open spaces

If it’s fresh air you’re after, you’re never far away from wide open spaces. We have more than 4,500 acres of parkland, woodland, lakes and rivers. Campbell Park is our green oasis right in the heart of the city and nearby Willen Lake is our beautiful outdoor playground with more than 180 acres of lakes and parkland. You can walk, cycle, sail, windsurf, dragon-boat race or just watch the world go by in the tranquil surroundings of the Peace Pagoda. The choice is yours. Around 20% of Milton Keynes is green space and we have more than 4,500 acres of parkland, lakes and rivers as well as over 20 million trees.

A bite to eat

Love to eat? Our city serves up cuisine from all over the world with bars, cafés and restaurants galore. The Hub has great food with plenty of chic pavement eateries on the central piazza. At Xscape, you’ll find more culinary choices as well as ten pin bowling, top nightclubs and a 16 screen multiplex cinema. The city’s Theatre District has a £30 million development with stylish bars and smart restaurants where you can relax and dine into the early hours.

Family fun

Milton Keynes is jam-packed full of fun for the whole family. Young or old, you can always find something for the children and the rest of the family to do in this great leisure destination. Milton Keynes is a young city at heart and enjoys welcoming children of all ages for action-packed fun and exciting adventures. Where else can you see lions and tigers in the morning, visit dinosaurs in the afternoon and go snowboarding on real snow that evening! http://www.destinationmiltonkeynes.co.uk/Visit_us/Family_fun

Natural, for free or low cost...

There are lots of things to do in Milton Keynes that are free or very low cost:

• Cycling the hundreds of kilometres of redways
• Walking along the Grand Union Canal towpath
• Visiting the Ouzel Valley Park
• Activities run by Milton Keynes Parks Trust in the many parks and woodland areas
• Window shopping around Central Milton Keynes or nearby market towns