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Geffrye Museum
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Time Out says
The museum of the British Front Room, from 1600 to the present, also has a herb garden and a series of period garden 'rooms' with period seating (open Apr 1 to Oct 31, during museum opening hours). Four galleries from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries reopened in Nov 2006. The rooms recreate typical living spaces from 1630, 1695, 1745 and 1790. As well as representing the changing materials used in halls and parlours, the rooms reflect the social changes that occurred over the featured years, from the increasing importance of time-keeping to the rising popularity of tea-drinking.
Geffrye Museum details
Transport Liverpool Street/Old Street ,then 149, 242, 243 bus
020 7739 9893
Times 10am-5pm Tue-Sat, noon-5pm Sun and bank holiday Mons
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An attractive museum with a nicely organised chronological sequence of period rooms. Although not having the sheer volume of artifacts as the V&A, the arrangement into distinct period rooms provides a quasi-theatrical approach to telling the story of the development of interior design over the last four hundred years. For a pound, the audio guide is essential, even if not terribly inspiring dialogue. You may find like I did, that there's not enough on display to occupy an entire day, as it's not a large museum like the V&A. So I recommend you time your visit to coincide with an additional trip to the Whitechapel Art Gallery, as it's only a short ride by no. 67 bus between the two venues. Highly recommended.
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