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Experience the magic of the season at our festive Winter Gathering featuring late-night shopping and mulled wine. Including discussions with the curators and Community Authors behind our Rooms Through Time: 1878–2049, dressed for our annual Winter Past display.
What’s on
All our galleries will be open late, offering you the chance to explore our Home Galleries and Rooms Through Time, featuring domestic life and making home over the last 400 years.
*Unfortunately, due to the historic nature of the building, the almshouse rooms are not wheelchair accessible. The tour also includes period lighting which may flicker.
Schedule
Enjoy the late access to Winter Past and discover the homes and traditions of winters past, present and future.
The ticket includes a glass of mulled wine or soft drink.
Tune into a 45-minute-session by the fantastic jazz trio!
Watch our Head Gardener, Heather, bring nature to life with her creative wreath and holiday decoration-making demo.
See discarded fruit crates transformed into sustainable, beautiful Christmas decorations. Grab your own limited-edition bauble.
Discover what life was like in Hackney 200 years ago on this exclusive twilight tour of the beautifully restored 18th-century Almshouse 14. See the space by candlelight, gaslight and a crackling fire lit for this occasion. A rare opportunity to see the almshouse with the sounds and smells of winter.
Discover what life was like in Hackney 200 years ago on this exclusive twilight tour of the beautifully restored 18th-century Almshouse 14. See the space by candlelight, gaslight and a crackling fire lit for this occasion. A rare opportunity to see the almshouse with the sounds and smells of winter.
Tune into a 45-minute-session by the fantastic jazz trio!

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