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Identity, Taste and Power: Colonial Histories of Everyday Objects
Join Visitor Experience Host Marcia O'Connor for a weekly talk exploring the colonial histories of everyday objects.
Every Friday
£5 / £3.50 concessions
Changing Faces in a Changing City: Migration in the Age of Sail, 1600-1850
Join Visitor Experience Host Mark Chacksfield on this weekly tour as he brings our galleries to life with stories of how and why early migrant communities came to live in London.
Every Saturday
£5 / £3.50 concessions
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 and Sunday
£7-10
Sadness and Sweetness: screening and panel discussion
View Sheba Montserrat's film followed by a discussion on kinship care - the contribution that the Windrush generation made to fostering in Hackney.
Tuesday 13 May 2025
Free
Undomesticated - Gender Defiance in the Home
Jaye Hudson of TGirlsonFilm and Museum of the Home present a series of free moving image screenings exploring queerness in the noughties.
13 May & 10 June
Free
Disability at Home Symposium
Join us for a conference to explore the relationship between domestic space and disability, D/deafness, and neurodiversity, considering how the home shapes (and is shaped by) experiences of difference, disablement, and impairment.
Thursday 15 May 2025
£15-20
East End Homes walking tour
Join architecturally trained and chartered town planner Lachlan Anderson-Frank on an immersive and educational walking tour in East London exploring the housing landscapes surrounding Museum of the Home.
24 May, 21 June, 26 July & 23 August 2025
£15
Home Truths: A look into "HERITAGE"
A special improvised performance by composer and musician, Rebecca Wing, and band members, as she shares her creative experiences of home via a jazz quartet.
Thursday 5 June 2025
£7-10
Queer Footprints Walking Tour with Dan Glass: A Summer of Queer Love
Join us on a walking tour led by Dan Glass, 'AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power' (ACT UP) activist and author of Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History, focusing on the early - current LGBTQIA+ Pride movements in the neighbourhood.
Saturday 7 June 2025
£18 (£15 Concession)
Home Truths: Time for Tea
An interactive art workshop, zine give-away and talk from UCL, Output Arts and survivors of domestic abuse, sharing their collaborative research project, Time for Tea.
Thursday 3 July 2025
£7-10
Outdoor Family Rave with Big Fish Little Fish
Bringing the original family rave to East London's Museum of the Home this summer!
Sunday 6 July
£10-12
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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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