Welcome to Museum of the Home
Our purpose is to reveal and rethink the ways we live, in order to live better together.
We are open Tuesday to Sunday (and Bank Holidays) 10am to 5pm, with last entry at 4pm. Free to visit and no booking required.
Explore
Real Rooms
Years in the making, we are bringing to life seven new period rooms to better reflect our East London community. Rooms Through Time is partially closed, and will reopen this summer.
Stay Home Stories
Four years since the UK entered a national lockdown, we're reflecting on our Stay Home Stories - an online collection of your experiences of home during the peak of the global pandemic.
Home Galleries
Exploring home through people’s everyday experiences of making, keeping and being at home.
Home GalleriesRooms Through Time
Room settings which display some of the ways in which homes have evolved in the past 400 years.
Rooms Through TimeGardens Through Time
Our Gardens Through Time show how city gardens have developed over the centuries.
Gardens Through TimeGet involved
Discovery Garden
Creating access to child-friendly green spaces
Free Tea Fridays
Drop in every Friday afternoon
Food Equality
Our campaign for equal access to good food and reducing food insecurity
Young Futures
Support the Museum's ambitions to improve access to heritage for young people
Be a Changemaker
A special relationship with the Museum
Discover
Shop
Explore our bespoke homewares, books, craft items, jewellery, toys, ceramics, fashion, accessories and textiles.
Our history
Read about the legacy of our buildings, which were built with money from Robert Geffrye's investments in transatlantic slavery, and how we rethink the ways we use the buildings.
Explore our collections online
Explore objects, photographs and books from our collections, all to do with domestic life and the everyday lived experience of home.
Watch: Comfort Furniture
A short film by Elora Kadir pondering our relationships to the objects in our home and the ways they bring us comfort. Comfort is used as a lens to view disability and accessibility.
Rhymes Through Time
A multi-artwork installation created by children's poet Valerie Bloom MBE, bringing to life the Rooms Through Time for younger visitors.
Hire our spaces
Situated in East London, our 300-year-old Georgian almshouses provide a range of unique spaces suitable for corporate hires, private events, filming and photography.
Support the Museum
With your help we can use our collections and programmes to reveal and rethink the ways we live, in order to live better together.