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Our purpose is to reveal and rethink the ways we live, in order to live better together.

Open Tuesday to Sunday and Bank Holidays, 10am–5pm

Closed on Mondays

Free entry | No booking required

What's on

Late
Thursday 24 October 2024

Housewarming: A Room Upstairs in 1956

Join this Museum Late for a special evening of music, creativity, and learning all about A Room Upstairs in 1956.
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A dark red backdrop with objects from the fifties laid out flat, including a vintage pink hairdryer, blue patterned tie, cat-eye glasses frames and earrings in a pink dish
Market Special
Sunday 1 December 2024

Yard Sale

Our much-loved Yard Sale returns on Sunday 1 December with a fantastic array of items, ranging from elegant homeware to unique studio clear-out bargains.
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An illustration with a pink background, warm orange features, and white angular shapes. Within the shapes are illustrated objects including a lemon juicer, table lamp and vintage telephone
Free Families
Tuesday 29 October 2024

October Half Term Family Day

Celebrate diverse family forms and dive into mixed-media art making, intergenerational play sessions, and interactive storytelling.
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Don't miss

On display until 17 October | Online Auction 16-20 October

Vinterior's Mid-Century Modern Dollshouse

In partnership with The Kensington Dollshouse Company, Vinterior has meticulously restored this vintage, pre-loved dollshouse. Inspired by mid-century modern design, the dollshouse will be on auction to the public from 16-20 October.
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15 October 2024 - 30 March 2025

Endurance & Joy in the East End | The photography of David Hoffman

An exhibition coinciding with the publication of David Hoffman’s monograph by Spitalfields Life Books, Endurance & Joy in the East End 1971–1987.
Black and white photograph of several young people smiling while leaning against, inside, and on top of a car

Winter Festival 2024/25

Discover homes of winters past, present and future. Coming soon, with events to be announced.

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A High Rise Flat In 2005 Full 1

Rooms Through Time

Our period room sets reflecting the lived experiences of our London community—past, present and future.

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A person standing in their living room in front of a window, with sofas around them

Home Galleries

Explore the concept of home through people’s everyday experiences of making, keeping and being at home over the last 400 years.

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Plants in the gardens at the Museum of the Home

Gardens Through Time

From a Tudor knot garden to a modern green roof, our gardens echo changes in society and the wider world and show the fashions and innovations of the time.

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Shop

Explore bespoke homewares, books, ceramics, gifts and more for the special someone in your life.

Café

Welcoming you to relax before, during or after your visit to the Museum. Doors are open from dawn to dusk.

For families

There is lots for children to see and do at the Museum. Eager explorers can expect a fun-filled day out!

Hire our spaces

Situated in East London, our 300-year-old Georgian almshouses provide a range of unique spaces suitable for corporate hires, private events, filming and photography. 

Our history

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.

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