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Identity, Taste and Power: Colonial Histories of Everyday Objects
Join Visitor Experience Host Marcia O'Connor for a weekly talk exploring the colonial histories of everyday objects.
Every Friday
£5 / £3.50 concessions
Changing Faces in a Changing City: Migration in the Age of Sail, 1600-1850
Join Visitor Experience Host Mark Chacksfield on this weekly tour as he brings our galleries to life with stories of how and why early migrant communities came to live in London.
Every Saturday
£5 / £3.50 concessions
Almshouse 14 Tours
Discover what it was like to live in Hackney 200 years ago on tours of our restored 18th-century almshouse dwellings.
Every Wednesday and Sunday
£7-10
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.
Saturday 12 April & Saturday 24 May 2025
£15
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.
22 April, 13 May & 10 June
Free
Housewarming: A Front Room in the 1970s
Enjoy exclusive late-night access to our galleries for an evening themed and inspired by A Terraced House in 1978, curated by Dr. Michael McMillan.
Thursday 24 April 2025
Free, with some paid elements
The Garden of Ideas
Free Thinking Fridays | Join our free drop-in, philosophy-focused Fridays as we explore and discuss what home is and can be over a cup of tea.
Friday 25 April 2025
Free
Queer Footprints Walking Tour with Dan Glass: Stories of Local LGBTQIA+ and Healthcare Activism
Join us on a walking tour led by Dan Glass, 'AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power' (ACT UP) activist and author of Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History, focusing on stories of local LGBTQIA+ and healthcare activism.
Saturday 26 April 2025
£18 (£15 Concession)
Living for Rent: Centre for Studies of Home Annual Lecture 2025
Join award-winning journalist and author Vicky Spratt and academic Matt Ingleby, co-director of the Rent Cultures Network, for an in-conversation on the range of issues related to rental domesticity.
Tuesday 29 April 2025
Free
Disability at Home Symposium
Join us for a conference to explore the relationship between domestic space and disability, D/deafness, and neurodiversity, considering how the home shapes (and is shaped by) experiences of difference, disablement, and impairment.
Thursday 15 May 2025
£15-20
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