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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
Green Lunar New Year Celebration
A full day of celebration and climate consciousness with creative workshops for all, a lively market selling unique products by ESEA artisans, supper clubs by ESEA chefs, thought-provoking speakers, mahjong club, and film screenings.
Saturday 28 January 2023
Free (sold out, walk-ins welcome)
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
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
May Family Day
Join us this May half term for a day of creative, collaborative activities exploring biodiversity and our connection to the natural world around us.
Wednesday 28 May 2025
Free
Housewarming: At Home in 2049
In the final museum late of our Housewarming series, learn how life in Hackney might look in the future in light of climate change and technological advancement, and dream up a new future together.
Thursday 29 May 2025
Free, with some paid elements
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)
Transness in the Big Brother House: 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.
Tuesday 10 June
Free
Windrush Programme: Honouring Our Elders
Come join us this summer for our Windrush Programme Series, Honouring Our Elders.
Sunday 22 June & Saturday 26 July & Wednesday 13 August
Free
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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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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