Welcome to Museum of the Home
Our purpose is to reveal and rethink the ways we live, in order to live better together.
We are free to visit, and there is no need to book. We are open Tuesday to Sunday (and Bank Holidays) 10am to 5pm, with last entry 4pm.
What's on
Winter Yard Sale & Online Auction
Sunday 26 November
Join us for the highly anticipated return of our Yard Sale and Online Auction in support of our Campaign for Change: Food Equality
The Future Room | Real Rooms
Help us design a room of the future! Your responses will help us figure out what really matters in the home - and what’s likely to matter 25 years from now.
Ceramics in the City
After a break of six years, Ceramics in the City returns, a vibrant celebration of ceramics showcasing the work of 45 leading ceramic artists and rising talents.
Object Stories: tours and talks
Women's Weeds: The hidden history of women in medicine
7 July to 30 September 2023
An audio installation exploring the complex ways in which women contributed to science and why their stories have been lost.
On display: Campaign for Food Equality
27 June to 3 September 2023
Explore items from our collections that tell a story of food at home through the ages, food equality, and eating sustainably.
Explore
Home Galleries
Exploring home through people’s everyday experiences of making, keeping and being at home.
Home Galleries
Rooms Through Time
Room settings which display some of the ways in which homes have evolved in the past 400 years.
Rooms Through Time
Gardens Through Time
Our Gardens Through Time show how city gardens have developed over the centuries.
Gardens Through Time
Rhymes Through Time
A multi-artwork installation created by children's poet Valerie Bloom MBE, bringing to life the Rooms Through Time for younger visitors.
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Real Rooms
What could the Rooms Through Time look like if we were to rethink who they are about?
Discovery Garden
Creating access to child-friendly green spaces with local schools and families.
Food Equality
Support Londoners of all ages to access good food at home and reduce food insecurity.
What's your cup of tea?
Join us as we work with the local community to develop a custom tea blend that reflects and celebrates Hackney and its residents.
Be a Changemaker
Being a Changemaker gives you a special relationship with the Museum, the directors and your fellow Changemakers.
Join Young Futures
Support the Museum's ambitions to improve access to heritage for young people.
Museum Shop
Described by The Times as "the best present shopping spot in London", our shop's range includes bespoke homewares, books, craft items, jewellery, toys, ceramics, fashion, accessories and textiles.
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.
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.
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.