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
26th Jan
10:00am - 6:00pm
Mon
27th Jan
10:00am - 6:00pm
Tues
28th Jan
10:00am - 6:00pm
Wed
29th Jan
10:00am - 6:00pm
Thur
30th Jan
10:00am - 6:00pm
Fri
31st Jan
10:00am - 6:00pm
Sat
25th Jan
10:00am - 6:00pm
Next Week
Sun
2nd Feb
10:00am - 6:00pm
Mon
3rd Feb
10:00am - 6:00pm
Tues
4th Feb
10:00am - 6:00pm
Wed
5th Feb
10:00am - 6:00pm
Thur
6th Feb
10:00am - 6:00pm
Fri
7th Feb
10:00am - 6:00pm
Sat
8th Feb
10:00am - 6:00pm
Exhibitions Open Now
A display celebrating The Clash’s iconic London Calling – an album that rocked the music scene, serving as an anthem for London, Londoners and music lovers globally.
(Open 15th Nov 2019 to 19th Apr 2020)
(Open 15th Nov 2019 to 19th Apr 2020)
Forthcoming events at Museum of London
The lecture will show how Prohibition animated combatants on both sides, generating two Americas that were barely comprehensible to each other, and how the truce declared during depression and war would not last.
Tuesday, 28th Jan: 6pm to 7pmThis lecture will offer a surprising exploration of the wide-ranging consequences of Einstein’s ideas, and how they shape our everyday lives.
Monday, 3rd Feb: 1pm to 2pmThe speaker is a space scientist who has worked on the Webb’s instruments; she will take the audience on a tour of both systems, showing how they can give us an understanding of the life cycle of our universe right back to the Big Bang.
Tuesday, 4th Feb: 1pm to 2pmThis lecture will ask how these events came to be so notorious, how and why they were remembered on each side, and how they shaped the history of civil conflict and ideas of coexistence and nationhood in the societies that endured them.
Wednesday, 5th Feb: 6pm to 7pmA panel discussion will discuss topics surrounding anti-racism, social inclusion and the problems faced in the 1970s/80s and how those issues are still prevalent today in the Punk scene.
Friday, 7th Feb: 6:30pm to 8pm
This lecture looks at the mythology that has gathered around the Golden Ratio, and also consider the fairness of cake-cutting, and changing choices in "the Monty Hall problem".
Tuesday, 11th Feb: 1pm to 2pmThis lecture uses examples from cutting-edge science and medicine to explore the ethical questions which advances in robotics, personalised medicine, transplantation and artificial intelligence pose for doctors, patients and society.
Wednesday, 19th Feb: 6pm to 7pmThe lecture discusses the Cato Street plotter identities, motives and impact, and the forgotten fact that their failure ended British revolutionary fantasies for a century.
Thursday, 20th Feb: 6pm to 7pm
£12.00
London's queer landscape
This LGBTQ History Month, an exploration into London's evolving queer landscape through time.
Friday, 21st Feb: 6:45pm to :
In this lecture Environment Professor Jacqueline McGlade will explain why in relation to UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 is to 'achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls'.
Tuesday, 3rd Mar: 6pm to 7pmThis talk will examine why laws are simple and how the combination of simple laws can lead to rich complexity.
Wednesday, 4th Mar: 1pm to 2pmThis talk will provide rigorous evidence on the importance of mental and physical wellness for not only quality of life but also career success and productivity at work.
Wednesday, 4th Mar: 6pm to 7pm
Free
The Japanese Martyrs
This lecture will explore how this bloody crisis shaped myths of Japanese cruelty and cults of Catholic sanctity in Europe, while also precipitating the 250-year ‘closing’ of Japan and the intense piety of a small remnant of underground Japanese Christians.
Wednesday, 11th Mar: 6pm to 7pmThe process of defining, organising and processing the film’s research will be covered, followed by the experience of subsequently writing a book supporting and expanding on the history set out in the film.
Monday, 16th Mar: 6pm to 7pmThese hitherto unknown royal ‘palaces’ became the nursery of courtly fashion and etiquette where the king and his courtiers developed tastes that were to fundamentally fashion the art and architecture of Restoration England.
Wednesday, 18th Mar: 6pm to 7pmA discussion on queer lives and gender politics in the Votes for Women campaign
Saturday, 21st Mar: 2pm to :
As well as setting these competing narratives into their wider context, this lecture will ask why the partisan memorialisation of religious atrocity in Ireland has proved so exceptionally durable.
Wednesday, 1st Apr: 6pm to 7pmIn this talk Dr Sheila Kanani combines the story of a pioneering woman astronomer, with an account of the science behind comets, asteroids and meteors. This talk will end with a demonstration of how to make a comet model using kitchen ingredients.
Monday, 6th Apr: 1pm to 2pm
Free
Critical Thinking
This talk will explain how to discern what and who to trust, how to know whether evidence is causation or just a correlation, and how to overcome the temptation to accept views that we agree with.
Wednesday, 22nd Apr: 6pm to 7pmThis lecture will present the endeavours of cosmologists and particle physicists, as they attempt to explain the fundamental nature of these mysterious dark components.
Monday, 27th Apr: 1pm to 2pmThe lecture will focus on a number of equations and algorithms which are making a profound difference to the way that we live.
Tuesday, 28th Apr: 1pm to 2pmThis illustrated lecture marks 150 years since Dickens’s death by reflecting on the nature of his creative genius and his legacy.
Tuesday, 5th May: 1pm to 2pmMuseum of London Map
Nearby Venues
1. St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum
2. Barbican Centre
3. City of London Police 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. Museum of Freemasonry
30. Tower of London
