In a series of rooms, the museum shows how Londoners have lived over the centuries, from the fireside parlour to the modern flat. The rooms are furnished in rich detail and invite you to compare them with your own home. Behind the building are gardens in the styles of different periods, at their best in summer. Hoxton station is right behind the museum.
The Museum of the Home, formerly the Geffrye Museum, is a free museum in the 18th-century Grade I-listed former almshouses on Kingsland Road in Hoxton, London. The museum's change of name was announced in 2019. The museum explores home and home life from 1600 to the present day with galleries which ask questions about 'home', present diverse lived experiences, and examine the psychological and emotional relationships people have with the idea of "home" alongside a series of period room displays.
In 2018, the museum had about 120,000 visitors before closing for two and a half years, during which an extensive refurbishment and building programme took place. The museum reopened as the Museum of the Home in summer 2021 with a mission to reveal and rethink the ways we live, in order to live better together, and with 80 per cent more exhibition space for its collections and 50 per cent more public space. The Museum of the Home now has new basement galleries (The Home Galleries), a cafe, learning pavilion, collections and reference libraries, several events spaces, and replanted gardens.
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Columbia Road Flower MarketFlower market on Sundays only; the whole street fills with plants, traders' cries and little shops.
Village UndergroundFormer warehouse in Shoreditch beneath old Tube carriages on the roof; concerts, club nights and culture.