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Detail of an interior featuring a wooden dresser with books, a mirror, sherry glasses, oval portrait on yellow walls and other period furnishings.
Collections Tours guided

Almshouse 14 Tours (drop-in)

Discover what it was like to live in Hackney 200 years ago on tours of our restored 18th-century almshouse dwellings.

Every Wednesday & Saturday

Free with optional donation

Almshouse 14 Tours (drop-in)
A celebration wall hanging displayed for Luner New Year, photographed in our Rooms Through Time.
Exhibitions

Tết Lunar New Year 2026

The Nguyễn family have spent weeks cleaning and polishing their home to bring prosperity and good fortune.

Tuesday 13 January - Sunday 22 February 2026

Free

Tết Lunar New Year 2026
A richly furnished Victorian townhouse room (c.1878) with mint green patterned wallpaper and red carpet, featuring a red upholstered armchair draped with embroidery beside a fireplace topped by twin ceramic vases, framed artwork, a carved wooden piano, a tea table, and in the left bottom corner is an ayah's trunk of Indian textiles.
Collections

Rooms Through Time

How home life has evolved over four centuries.

Permanent

Free

Rooms Through Time
A view of gardens with trees.
Gardens

Gardens Through Time

Discover how city gardens have changed and developed over the centuries.

10am-4.30pm, Tuesday to Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays

Free

Gardens Through Time
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