Grange Gallery

You'll find Grange Gallery tucked away in Poole, a proper little spot for anyone who wants to step out of the campsite and into some actual culture without faffing about. It's a working gallery space - the kind where local artists show their stuff, not some corporate white-cube affair. What you're looking at depends entirely on what's on when you visit, which means you could walk in to find paintings, sculpture, photography, or sometimes installations that genuinely make you think.

The gallery itself won't eat up your whole day. Allow an hour, maybe ninety minutes if there's something that really grabs you. It's the sort of place that appeals to people who like visual art but aren't snobby about it - families with teenagers who've developed actual interests, couples looking to kill time on a rainy afternoon, that kind of thing. Young children will probably get restless after twenty minutes unless they're unusually patient.

Poole's just close enough that you're not dedicating half a day to the journey. From the caravan parks clustered around Wareham and Sandford - Hunter's Moon, West Holme, Parkdean Resorts, Luckford Wood - it's a short drive, fifteen minutes tops. Worth checking their website or ringing ahead before you visit, just so you know what's showing and whether they're actually open. Admission details weren't clear when I looked, but galleries like this are usually free or charged at a modest couple of quid.