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Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
About Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
The museum examines the history of consumer culture from Victorian times to the present day.
The museum features over 12,000 original items including domestic "everyday" products, packaging, posters, toys and games.
Set out in chronological order in the form of a "Time Tunnel" the museum gives visitors "a trip down memory lane", and to see how the brands around us have evolved from the naive charm of Victorian times to the greater sophistication of today.
It also reflects the change in shopping habits, the impact of transportation, media, the effects of two world wars and the gradual emancipation of women.
Address
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising,
111-117 Lancaster Rd,
London,
W11 1QT
Just under 175 years ago, how people dried themselves after a wash changed when the first British made terry towel was shown off at the Great Exhibition, and now there’s a smaller exhibition about the company that developed it.
Behind a brightly coloured wall in Ladbroke Grove can be found a roller coaster ride on the nostalgia express down corridors of memories from everyone’s childhood.
One for the nostalgia fans – as you can buy the last “official” bag of pic ‘n mix ever sold in a Woolworths, and the funds raised will go to a charity aimed at helping retail workers. It is (allegedly)…
Origins of Wimbledon’s famous green towels’ revealed in Museum of Brands exhibition
