Living Better Together

Museum of the Home has a long history of using its collections and creative interactions to educate outside the classroom. Our campaigning work focuses on the issues which affect people’s experiences and ideas of ‘home’.

We are delivering on our ambition to live better together.

With social engagement and community outreach at the centre of our programming activity, we aim to lead as a campaigning museum for social justice causes that align with our core values. These include hidden homelessness, food equality, period poverty and climate action.

This work includes:

Free Tea Fridays

Building belonging and tackling social isolation through regular, artist-led, free events for our local community.

A person passing full paper bags to another person inside a kitchen

Food Equality

Advocating for food equality across the UK, through our work with young people and sector partners. We will work with our partners Hackney Foodbank to deliver their service from the Museum and provide a space for the community.

About Hackney Foodbank

Home Truths

Creating space for activism through Home Truths talks, workshops and programming. Home Truths is Museum of the Home’s socially engaged initiative and commitment to discuss current issues of home and home beyond the physical space.

Bloody Good Employer

Creating a fairer, safer workplace and visit for all people who menstruate by gaining Bloody Good Employer accreditation.

“Food can be such a powerful vessel for joy, independence and cultural connection. This has long been a core part of my work as a journalist and broadcaster, and so I'm really excited about working as an ambassador for Museum of the Home's Food Equality campaign to help explore these themes and raise awareness at a time when issues around food insecurity have never been more pertinent.”

- Jimi Famurewa - Broadcaster, Freelance Journalist, and Campaign for Change Ambassador

Decolonisation

We will continuously advocate for and implement decolonisation and anti-racism practices in our structures, governance, curation, collections and programming. We are working to heal the rifts between the Museum and its communities caused by the presence of the statue of Robert Geffrye. We will continue to work with Voyage Youth in residence, and with broader stakeholders to plan for the redisplay of the statue and give space to histories of colonialism and the home.

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.

Communities

We work with communities to offer opportunities to share cultural heritage, and feelings and memories of home. Our collections explore themes around domestic daily life and relationships, alongside home-based activities like cooking, gardening, decorating and play.

Behind the Door

Behind the Door was our campaign to change the way we think about homelessness, and to support our partners at the London Homeless Collective.

Discovery Garden

Working with schools and families to promote urban planting and food growing as a sustainable practice. By co-creating a Discovery Garden on our grounds. Until 2025 we are working with two local primary schools to create a child-friendly green space, exploring soil health, seasonal planting, biodiversity, sustainable food production, and more. This garden will be a permanent legacy of the campaign.

Climate Action

Climate Action is taking a primary role in the Museum’s vision. We commit to being carbon neutral by 2040 - getting our own house in order and supporting audiences to reduce impact on climate and nature.

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