Housewarming: A Noughties Queer Home
This month, celebrate LGBTQIA+ History Month with late-night access to our galleries, featuring music, drinks, creative activities, and curator-led tours—all honouring and exploring queer domesticity, love and community.

Join us for our next Late celebrating the objects, personal stories and histories found within A High-rise Flat in 2005. Expect late-night access to the Museum with music, delicious drinks, creative workshops, pop-up stalls and in-depth, curator-led tours.
Discover the personal stories and histories woven throughout our new galleries. We'll be open late, offering you the chance to explore our Rooms Through Time, featuring period rooms depicting domestic life and homemaking from the last 400 years.
Entry is free, with some paid elements. Get tickets now to secure your place. Doors open from 6pm.
Programme
Music & Bar | 6pm to 9pm
Immerse yourself in the sounds of the noughties with a curated mixtape of iconic hits.
Our bar will be serving up delicious cocktails and mocktails. Plus, grab a candy necklace for a sweet, nostalgic treat.
Curator tour | 6.30pm and 7.30pm (£5)
Ticketed £5 | Booking required
6.30pm and 7.30pm
Opened in July 2024, explore the seven new period rooms at the Museum with a curator-led tour including stories of queer domesticity in our High-rise Flat in 2005.
Shop & Pop-up stalls | 6pm to 9pm
Join us for a lively pop-up market celebrating LGBTQIA+ artists, makers, and designers. Richard Moonstreet Ceramics and lezbag will be showcasing curated collections throughout the evening.
Plus, our popular Museum Shop will be open all night, offering a fantastic selection of homeware, books, and trinkets.
Stallholders, workshops and more to be announced soon.


Find out more
About A High-rise Flat in 2005
Responding to a population boom, local authorities built high-rise blocks like Withy House from the 1950s to early 1970s in an effort to create ‘streets in the sky’. However, they grew a reputation for being undesirable, and after decades of privatisation and a chronic lack of funding, many of these blocks had been demolished by the new millennium.
Curated with the help of participants from LGBTQI+ communities
About Housewarmings
Celebrate our newest, permanent gallery, this Museum Late series unpacks the stories of our seven new Rooms Through Time and explore what Home can mean. Explore how homes have evolved aesthetically alongside societal shifts, and enjoy a lively night at the Museum.
About Richard Moonstreet Ceramics
Silly ceramic ducks, chickens and geese. Handmade in London and flown Worldwide! Perfect gifts, home decor & companions for life. Step inside the whimsical world and find your new favourite fowl friend! Vases, pots, silly ornaments, salt and pepper shakers, and adorable handmade pals waiting to be adopted and loved.
About Lezbag
Mr Lez is a bag designer born and raised in North London. He created the first classic lezbag in 2016 for his friend Megan. He now has a permanent collection of bags and averages three collaborative collections annually. He is an object fetishist and is mad about fabrics and the way colours transform each other in proximity. His favourite thing is to see butches shine. What he loves most about lez is getting to invent new things out of other things in his studio with incredible queer and trans makers and designers.
The term ‘queer’ may not resonate with everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community. While it has historically been used as a slur, many have reclaimed it with pride, and it is widely used in academic and advocacy spaces. Our intention is always inclusivity, using ‘queer’ as a term that embraces people of all identities. Everyone is welcome here.
Date
Thursday 27 February 2025
Time
6pm to 9pm
Cost
Free, with some paid elements
Location
Museum of the Home - 136 Kingsland Road, London E2 8EA