Winter Festival events
Home Truths: Keeping a Magical Home
Night In: Magical Home Protection
Diwali Family weekend
Winter Festival installations
Christmas Past
Our popular exhibition celebrating winter at home returns to the Museum!
From Tuesday 9 November through until Sunday 9 January
Hanukkah
Enjoy a series of events and visit one of our Rooms Through Time showing how a Sephardi Jewish family may have celebrated Hanukkah in the 1700s
Light up the Museum
A major light installation by multi award winning lighting designer Jessica Hung Han Yun
Book your free ticket to guarantee entry
Tickets are available on the door, but you may have to wait if we are busy.
Open Tuesday – Sunday
10am–5pm (last entry 4pm)
1970s front room, photograph by Em Fitzgerald
Last few weeks to enjoy our Pet Life exhibition
A pawsome pet adventure for all the family. Discover the joy, companionship and challenges our pets bring to the home.
Until Sunday 31 October
Free exhibitions and installations
The Soft Prison
Ten contemporary artists explore the landscape of our private space and the home's capacity to contain and sustain us
Mollspeak
Waiting for myself to appear
A new film commission by Michael McMillan
Rhymes Through Time
Exploring the role of children in the home
New galleries and new stories
New Home Galleries
Exploring home through people’s everyday experiences of making, keeping and being at home
Home Galleries
Refreshed Rooms Through Time
Room settings which display some of the ways in which homes have evolved in the past 400 years
Rooms Through Time
Newly planted gardens
Our Gardens Through Time show how city gardens have developed over the centuries
Gardens Through TimeHome lives under lockdown
Get involved
Share your experience
We're documenting how home lives have changed during the Covid-19 pandemic
Behind the Door
Our campaign with London Homeless Collective aiming to tackle female homelessness
Become a Friend
Join the Friends and become part of our family
Molly's Café
Run by the founders of the award-winning The Anchor & Hope family, Molly's offers a seasonal, good value menu.
Molly's Café
Museum shop
Our range includes bespoke homewares, books, craft items, jewellery, toys, ceramics, fashion, accessories and textiles. Open 10am–5pm.
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Book your session at the Collections Library
Our new Collections Library offers unrivalled access to the Museum's collection. Book your session now!
Explore our collections online
Explore objects, photographs and books from our collections, all to do with domestic life and the everyday lived experience of home.
Revealing and rethinking our 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
Support the Museum
With your help we can use our collections and programmes to reveal and rethink the ways we live, in order to live better together.