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Our purpose is to reveal and rethink the ways we live in order to live better together.

Open Tuesday to Sunday and Bank Holidays, 10am–5pm. Closed on Mondays

Entry is free, no booking is required.

What's on

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EastEnders at 40: Icons of Home and Drama

20 February - 22 June 2025

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2000S Room Kenneth Lam

Still Living | Kenneth Lam x Museum of the Home

28 January - 29 June 2025

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Endurance & Joy in the East End: The Photography of David Hoffman

15 October 2024 - 30 March 2025

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*Last chance to visit*

Free Families
Thursday 10 April 2025

Spring Family Day

Join us this spring holidays for immersive, creative and playful family activities, exploring how light and sound can help shape our sense of home and belonging.
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Tour
Saturday 12 April & Saturday 24 May 2025

East End Homes walking tour

Join architecturally trained and chartered town planner Lachlan Anderson-Frank on an immersive and educational walking tour in East London exploring the housing landscapes surrounding Museum of the Home.
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Film Free
22 April, 13 May & 10 June

Undomesticated - Gender Defiance in the Home

Jaye Hudson of TGirlsonFilm and Museum of the Home present a series of free moving image screenings exploring queerness in the noughties.
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Rooms Through Time

Our period room sets reflecting the lived experiences of our London community—past, present and future.

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Home Galleries

Explore the concept of home through people’s everyday experiences of making, keeping and being at home over the last 400 years.

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Gardens Through Time

From a Tudor knot garden to a modern green roof, our gardens echo changes in society and the wider world and show the fashions and innovations of the time.

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Winter 2025 Commission: Call for Artists

We are looking for an emerging artist to create a new piece inspired by Christmas to be displayed in the Kingsland Road lawns from November 2025.

Shop

Explore bespoke homewares, books, ceramics, gifts and more for the special someone in your life.

Café

Welcoming you to relax before, during or after your visit to the Museum. Doors are open from dawn to dusk.

Our history

Read about the legacy of our buildings, which were built with money from Robert Geffrye's investments in transatlantic slavery, and how we rethink the ways we use the buildings.

Explore our collections online

Explore objects, photographs and books from our collections, all to do with domestic life and the everyday lived experience of home.

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Support us

Museum of the Home is a free museum, registered charity, and is open to all. Your support plays a crucial role in revealing the history of the Home and rethinking how we can live better today.

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For families

There is lots for children to see and do at the Museum. Eager explorers can expect a fun-filled day out!

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Hire our spaces

Situated in East London, our 300-year-old Georgian almshouses provide a range of unique spaces suitable for corporate hires, private events, filming and photography. 

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Support the Museum

With your help we can use our collections and programmes to reveal and rethink the ways we live, in order to live better together.

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