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Visitors exploring a recreated home interior, with adults and children examining the kitchen and living room display.

Our work

We explore diverse experiences of home across time through our galleries and programming.
Co-curation and partnership lie at the heart of everything we do. Through our galleries and programming, we explore diverse experiences of home across time, creating a museum that is more representative and accessible to all.

Using our collections and creative interventions with schools, families and young people, we encourage learning beyond the classroom. Through our work with communities, we address local, national and global issues that impact the experience of home.

Two primary school students in yellow uniforms stir plant material in a metal tub with spoons, beside a bowl of mashed avocado and colored pens on the table, while classmates work at tables in the background.

Schools

We offer creative workshops and self-led visits and we’re co-creating child-friendly access to green spaces with local schools

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Schools
A bright, airy reception space with a gently curved white desk at centre right, behind which a staff member speaks to a visitor. To the left, a large semi-circular bank of green-framed windows looks out onto leafy gardens. The person on a bench on the left is chatting with a person standing right to the bench.

ESEA Communities

Creating relationships with our local community and making work with a real legacy.

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ESEA Communities

We work with artists and researchers to reveal and rethink home as not just a place, but a feeling. We support new study that investigates the hidden social and political dimensions of domestic history.

A framed painting hangs on floral-patterned wallpaper depicting a South Asian ayah—modelled by Jamaican-born Fanny Eaton—in an orange drape and white skirt, reading from a book to two white children, a toddler on her lap and an older girl leaning on the table.

Research

We are an international hub for collaborative research on everyday domestic life, material cultures, architecture and design.

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Research
A neon outline of various colours of Shiva the Destroyer installation against a dark blue sky with some tree branches in the background, holding a red-and-green trident; the body is rendered in pink, yellow, and blue.

Commissions, partnerships and residencies

Our creative partnerships produce new and unique works reflecting the theme of home.

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Commissions, partnerships and residencies

We are leading as a campaigning museum for social justice causes that align with our core values, including climate action, food equality, hidden homelessness and period poverty.

A close up shot of two white tulip buds rising from dark soil amid green foliage in a sunlit garden bed, with a copper irrigation pipe visible beneath.

Climate action

We are sparking debate and rethinking the ways we live, through exploring personal stories of home and the impact of climate change.

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Climate action
A person in a red beanie and jumpsuit is smiling while holding a paper cup while leaning on a white bicycle cart parked on the grass. The cart’s red lettering matches their outfit, reading “Let us blend a free cuppa for you” above and “What’s Your Cup of Tea?” below, and it’s topped with jars of tea blends.

Our impact

Social engagement and community outreach are at the heart of our goal to live better together.

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Our impact
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