Exhibitions and installations
Winter festival installations
Christmas Past
Our popular exhibition celebrating winter at home returns to the Museum!
Until Sunday 9 January 2022
Hanukkah
Enjoy a series of events and visit one of our Rooms Through Time showing how a Sephardi Jewish family may have celebrated Hanukkah in the 1700s
Light up the Museum
A major light installation by multi award winning lighting designer Jessica Hung Han Yun
Temporary exhibitions
Tomorrow's Home
Discover how our homes could support us, our communities and our planet in 2050
Until Sunday 9 January 2022
Installations
Waiting for myself to appear
Mollspeak
An ever changing composition of word and sound by writer Maria Fusco with composer Olivier Pasquet
In the Undercroft
What's your cup of tea?
A project by YARA + DAVINA, working with the local community to create a custom tea blend
Around Hackney
Rhymes Through Time
Exploring the role of children in the home through poetry and interactive design
Throughout the Rooms Through Time
The Cell Quilt
This quilt was meticulously sewn by prisoners and shows a scale recreation of a two-man prison cell.
Tomorrowland
A multimedia artwork created with the local schoolchildren exploring ideas of what Hackney might be by 2050.
Our Homes Our Stories
A new artist commission by Alaa Alsaraji, drawing on the Museum's Stay Home material