Museum
Museum of the Home
Free museum exploring home and domestic life from 1600 to present.
📍 136 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8EA Shoreditch & Hoxton South East
About
The Museum of the Home, formerly the Geffrye Museum, is located in 18th-century Grade I-listed former almshouses on Kingsland Road in Hoxton. It explores home life from 1600 to the present day with period room displays, diverse lived experiences, and examines psychological relationships people have with home. It reopened in summer 2021 after extensive refurbishment with 80 per cent more exhibition space and features basement galleries, a cafe, learning pavilion, libraries, events spaces, and replanted gardens.
Things to do here
View period room displays from different erasExplore home life exhibitsVisit the gardensAttend events and learning activitiesUse the reference libraries
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Getting there
Stations
Hoxton · 1 min walk
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Haggerston · 10 min walk
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Shoreditch High Street · 11 min walk
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