Geffrye Museum

Kingsland Rd, London, E2 8EA Full details & map
A living room in 1935 A living room in 1935 - © Chris Ridley/Geffrye Museum

Geffrye Museum review

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).


Events at Geffrye Museum

Geffrye Museum

Until Aug 31 2010 Museums & Attractions

The museum of the British Front Room, from 1600 to the present, also has a herb garden and a series of period garden ...

Eco Home

Until Feb 7 2010 Museums & Attractions  

This exhibition looks at the way ecological issues impact on our homes and examines changing attitudes to decorating ...

Christmas Past

Until Jan 3 2010 Museums & Attractions

The Geffrye's period rooms, which include examples from the past four centuries, can once again be seen in their full...

Geffrye Museum details

Address
Kingsland Rd, London, E2 8EA

Transport Liverpool Street/Old Street ,then 149, 242, 243 bus

Telephone

020 7739 9893

Geffrye Museum website

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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Posted by rgoodwin on Oct 18 2009 10:46am

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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Posted by rgoodwin on Oct 18 2009 10:43am

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