Welcome to Museum of the Home
Our purpose is to reveal and rethink the ways we live, in order to live better together.
Open Tuesday to Sunday & Bank Holidays 10am to 5pm
Free entry | No booking is required.
Home Galleries
Exploring home through people’s everyday experiences of making, keeping and being at home.
Home Galleries
Gardens Through Time
Our Gardens Through Time show how city gardens have developed over the centuries.
Gardens Through Time
Real Rooms Project
Years in the making, we are bringing to life seven new period rooms to better reflect our East London community. Rooms Through Time is partially closed, and will reopen this summer.
About Real Rooms ProjectOpening soon: Rooms Through Time 1878-2049
Our refurbished gallery will be home to seven new and permanent period rooms, offering a journey into the lives and stories of people who have enriched the fabric of London over the past two centuries.
Stay Home Stories
Four years since the UK entered a national lockdown, we're reflecting on our Stay Home Stories - an online collection of your experiences of home during the peak of the global pandemic.
Explore
Shop
Explore bespoke homewares, books, ceramics, gifts and more for the special someone in your life.
Molly's
Your local go-to spot for the best British food, beer, wine, cocktails and good company. Welcoming you from dawn to dusk.
For families
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.
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.
Get involved
Discovery Garden
Creating access to child-friendly green spaces
Free Tea Fridays
Drop in every Friday afternoon
Food Equality
Our campaign for equal access to good food and reducing food insecurity
Young Futures
Support the Museum's ambitions to improve access to heritage for young people
Be a Changemaker
A special relationship with the Museum
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.