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The Museum of the Home
About The Museum of the Home
Formerly the Geffrye Museum.
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A series of old almshouses that have been converted into a museum of interior decoration.
Wonderfully old fashioned, and they have a range of changing displays throughout the year, including their annual Christmas decorations.
A refurbishment opened up the basement spaces which now show off the history of home appliances. There's also a research library that can be visited by appointment.
A garden and a decent cafe round up the museum.
Address
The Museum of the Home,
Geffrye Street,
London,
E2 8EA
The Museum of the Home is famous for its replica rooms from the Tudor times to the Millenium, and now you can use them as backgrounds for your video calls.
A tradition has returned as the Museum of the Home in East London puts on a display of homes decorated for Christmas as they would have been in the past.
A much loved Christmas tradition returns this year, as the refurbished Museum of the Home decorates rooms with Christmas displays from down the centuries.
Three years after the much-loved Geffrye Museum closed to have a radical makeover, having more than doubled in size, the renamed Museum of the Home has reopened at last.
As part of a long standing, and at times, controversial, expansion plan, the Geffrye Museum will be closing its doors in a few months for nearly 2 years of rebuilding work.
It’s not often that you have to walk past a dozen other people’s dining rooms in order to have your own lunch, unless you work in a hotel, but that is how the Geffrye museum is laid out.
