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Open 10am to 5pm, every Tuesday to Sunday (and Bank Holiday Mondays). Entry is free. No booking is required to visit.

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Accessibility

We are committed to ensuring an accessible experience for all our visitors. Step-free access is available to the Museum and to our galleries.

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We are a free museum, registered charity, and open to all. We exist for the benefit of everyone, and your support is vital to us.

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Featured exhibitions and events

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A richly furnished Victorian townhouse room (c.1878) with mint green patterned wallpaper and red carpet, featuring a red upholstered armchair draped with embroidery beside a fireplace topped by twin ceramic vases, framed artwork, a carved wooden piano, a tea table, and in the left bottom corner is an ayah's trunk of Indian textiles.
Collections

Rooms Through Time

How home life has evolved over four centuries.

Permanent

Free

Rooms Through Time
Detail of an interior featuring a wooden dresser with books, a mirror, sherry glasses, oval portrait on yellow walls and other period furnishings.
Collections Tours guided

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, Saturday and Sunday

Drop-in | Free with optional donation

Almshouse 14 Tours
For Families Drop-in

Light and Movement: Diwali Family Day

Take part in creative activities and interactive performances to celebrate in the lead up to Diwali, the festival of lights

Tuesday 27 October 2026

Free

Light and Movement: Diwali Family Day
Events Late

Changing Rooms: Celebrating Trans Domesticities

A day to night celebration to launch our new display of trans homes and creativity in 2000s East London.

Saturday 14 November 2026

Free

Changing Rooms: Celebrating Trans Domesticities

“I've done all the tourist stuff in London this past week and this was by far the best. Incredible exhibit and including modern and historical people - so good!”

Lydia, Visitor, 2025

“One of the best museums I have visited in London – not that well known, and it should be. Fabulous presentation of historic interiors you will struggle to see outside a stately home. Well worth a visit. Unforgettable experience if you are in town.”

Visitor, 2024

“Very impressed with the set up of all the various homes. Brought back fondest childhood memories. Thank you. ”

First time visitor, 2025

“Well preserved, fascinating, welcoming, moving, informative and overall excellent!”

Visitor, 2025

“LOVE this museum. Honestly one of the best days out in London I’ve had in a while. ”

Visitor, 2024

“Absolutely loved this museum! Loved the cosy rooms and gardens.”

Visitor, 2025

Honeywell thermostat with cream-colored plastic housing and round copper-toned temperature dial.
Stories of home Article

How central heating changed our lives

Warmth at the turn of a dial changed our homes and where we spend our time in them.

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How central heating changed our lives
A curved knife and two-pronged fork with decorative, patterned handles.
Stories of home Article

The rise and fall of the fork

Once mocked, forks became an essential item of cutlery, but are they on their way out again?

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The rise and fall of the fork
A standing display in a museum of objects including a red telephone, IKEA 'Billy' bookshelf, and mirror
Stories of home Article

BILLY, the world’s favourite bookcase

IKEA’s humble BILLY bookcase conquered the world and helped us curate our belongings.

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BILLY, the world’s favourite bookcase
Inside a partially gutted room, construction workers in hi-vis jackets and helmets consult at an exposed brick wall opening. Piles of bricks, rubble, and windows line the space.
Stories of home Article

Finds during the 2019 build

What we found in the ground when we began the redevelopment of our buildings in 2019.

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Finds during the 2019 build
A black and white urban scene showing brick apartment buildings flanking the Geffrye's Museum's clock tower. Children play in the fenced courtyard area between the buildings, with bare winter trees framing the central structure.
Stories of home Article

A history of Robert Geffrye’s fortune

An English merchant who made his fortune partly from his involvement in the forced labour and trading of enslaved Africans.

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A history of Robert Geffrye’s fortune
Two people having a conversation in living room with Christmas tree in background
Stories of home Article

Celebrating Christmas at home

How technology, fashion and society have changed the way we celebrate Christmas at home.

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Celebrating Christmas at home
A group of schoolchildren in white shirts inspect tall green plants growing in a raised garden bed made of soil and logs, surrounded by wooden planters.

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We are a free museum and registered charity. Your support, large or small, plays a crucial role in revealing the history of the Home and rethinking how we can live better today.

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