Geffrye Museum

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Mon Dec 17 2012

Housed in a set of 18th-century almshouses, the Geffrye Museum offers a vivid physical history of the English interior. Displaying original furniture, textiles and decorative arts, the museum recreates a sequence of typical middle-class living rooms from 1600 to the present. It is a fascinating way to take in domestic history. The Geffrye Museum also has an airy restaurant overlooking the gardens, which include a herb garden and a series of period garden 'rooms' with period seating (open Apr 1 to Oct 31, during museum opening hours). Tours of the restored almshouses take place regularly, as do children's activities and workshops (see the website for details).

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Address:
Geffrye Museum Kingsland Rd
London
E2 8EA

Venue phone:
020 7739 9893
Venue website:
www.geffrye-museum.org.uk
Opening hours:
Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun and bank holidays 12noon-5pm
Transport:
Tube: Old St; Rail: Hoxton
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1. Geffrye Museum
  - Kingsland Rd
    London
    E2 8EA
  - 020 7739 9893
  - www.geffrye-museum.org.uk
  - 51.531557,-0.076244

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The lives of a group of people living in a recent housing development in north London is the subject of this exhibition. Between 2006 and 2009 the old Arsenal football stadium was converted into Highbury Stadium Square, which comprises more than 700 flats...

Thu Jun 20
– Sat Aug 24
Geffrye Museum Kingsland Rd, E2 8EA
£5, £3 concs

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This is a wonderful museum - it's pretty much the nearest you can get to walking through history. Each of the rooms have modern reproductions of the furniture and textiles of the time, so instead of seeing furniture from 100s of years ago as it looks now, you see it as it would have looked then (which is different from how I had imagined) and see rooms how people would have lived in them.

Laura Fri Mar 29
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Just wondering if it is a place of interest children would enjoy visiting this summer time

Maria Odafi Sat Jul 24 2010
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