Museum of London
About the Museum of London
A huge museum in the City devoted to the history, mostly of the centre of London, from Roman times right up to the modern day.A number of permanent galleries are laid out in chronological order, with a mixture of original objects and recreations.
Particular highlights include the recreation of a Victorian street, the 2012 Olympic cauldron, and the Lord Mayor's carriage.
A number of displays change several times a year, with smaller free exhibitions, and usually one major paid-for exhibition.
Address
Museum of London,
150 London Wall,
London,
EC2Y 5HN
Admission Charges
Entry is FREE
Link to Museum of London's website
Museum of London Opening Hours
This Week
Sun
17th Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Mon
18th Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Tues
19th Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Wed
20th Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Thur
21st Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Fri
22nd Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Sat
23rd Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Next Week
Sun
24th Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Mon
25th Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Tues
26th Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Wed
27th Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Thur
28th Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Fri
29th Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Sat
30th Mar
10:00am - 6:00pm
Forthcoming events at Museum of London
In this lecture, we will explore how deep learning works, what it can do and if neural networks are a modern miracle or yet another false dawn.
Tuesday, 19th Mar: 6pm to 7pmProfessor Ringhand discusses how officials in the United Kingdom and the United States have approached the problem, and how they have faced surprisingly similar challenges despite the different underlying approaches to political campaign financing taken by each nation.
Tuesday, 2nd Apr: 1pm to 2pmThis lecture will track these radical quests and show how they could lead to positions like those of Baruch Spinoza or Thomas Hobbes: God may still exist but is almost wholly out of reach.
Thursday, 4th Apr: 6pm to 7pm The concept of a ‘good death’, and how it can be achieved will be discussed, including the importance of open conversations with children being bereaved.
Tuesday, 9th Apr: 1pm to 2pmThis lecture will consider the current reality of AI in education and its transformative potential.
Tuesday, 9th Apr: 6pm to 7pmDrawing on evidence from contemporary maps, paintings and writings, and modern environmental science, the lecture will offer a 'virtual' walk around the City with Sir Thomas Gresham.
Wednesday, 10th Apr: 6pm to 7pmIn this lecture, we provide a brief history of text processing and look towards the future when the computer sonnet or love poem might become a reality.
Tuesday, 16th Apr: 6pm to 7pm
£5.00
Roman fort gate tours
Tour the remains of the western gate of London’s Roman military fort, located beneath the streets next to the Museum of London.
Sunday, 21st Apr: 2pm to 3pmThis talk will show that stock market trading may contribute to society even if does not lead to firms raising new capital.
Wednesday, 24th Apr: 6pm to 7pmThe last 500 years of progress in maths will be reviewed, to see where it is going next and ask whether we are truly living in a mathematical Golden Age.
Tuesday, 30th Apr: 1pm to 2pmThe newly discovered Salvator by Leonardo, the world’s most costly picture, is one of his most notable creations, in which he used his ‘science of art’ to transform a stock subject into a profound expression of the ineffability of the divine.
Wednesday, 1st May: 6pm to 7pm
Free
Gresham's Exchange
A talk about the construction of the Royal Exchange in the City.
Wednesday, 8th May: 6pm to 7pmWhat’s the future of listening? What will happen to the ways we give attention to music in the future?
Monday, 13th May: 6pm to 7pmProfessor Wilks will discuss the argument that ‘superintelligent’ AI may turn against us, as Hawking and Bostrom have warned.
Tuesday, 14th May: 1pm to 2pmJonathan Bate will track Keats to Hampstead and tell of the extraordinary circle of writers – opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, essayist Charles Lamb, master-critic William Hazlitt – who wrote for The London Magazine.
Tuesday, 14th May: 6pm to 7pmThis talk looks at mathematical modelling of real, complex fluids in flow situations – some with serious commercial applications, and some just for fun.
Wednesday, 29th May: 6pm to 7pmProfessor MacMillan will consider if the treaty led to the outbreak of the Second World War and whether the attempt to create a new world order was a failure.
Tuesday, 4th Jun: 6pm to 7pmThis talk will discuss the correct and incorrect motives for M&A, using both examples and large-scale evidence.
Wednesday, 5th Jun: 6pm to 7pmJonathan Bate will explore the life and work of the original celebrity poet - Lord Byron.
Tuesday, 11th Jun: 6pm to 7pmSir Richard Evans talks about why the Republic failed in its attempt to make Germany democratic, and what lessons can be learned for the future of democracy in the 21st century.
Tuesday, 18th Jun: 6pm to 7pmMuseum of London Map
Nearby Venues
1. Barbican Centre
2. City of London Police Museum
3. St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum
4. Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
5. St Paul's Cathedral
6. Museum of the Order of St John
7. Bank of England Museum
8. London Mithraeum
9. Dr Johnson's House
10. Museum of Methodism and John Wesley's House
11. Shakespeare's Globe
12. Islington Museum
13. Tate Modern
14. Bishopsgate Institute
15. Clink Prison Museum
16. Museum of Funeral History
17. Twinings Museum
18. Kirkaldy Testing Museum
19. Dennis Severs' House
20. Novelty Automation
21. Sir John Soane's Museum
22. The Crypt Museum
23. Charles Dickens Museum
24. Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
25. The View from the Shard
26. HMS Belfast
27. Somerset House
28. Courtauld Institute of Art
29. The Library and Museum of Freemasonry
30. Tower of London
