Our impact

Museum of the Home’s impact goes beyond our offer as a free-of-charge museum. Through our schools programmes, free family programming, collections, and more, 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.

We advocate for food equality across the UK through our work with sector partners. We will work with our partners Hackney Foodbank to deliver their service from the museum and provide a space for the community. 

We create a fairer, safer workplace and visit for all people who menstruate with our Bloody Good Employer accreditation. 

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.