Burgh House & Hampstead Museum
A handsome early-18th-century Hampstead townhouse turned community museum and salon. Expect a mix of local history, changing art shows, and a mellow café-garden that makes you linger after the galleries. It’s small, personal and very Hampstead: culture stitched into a domestic space.
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What's not to miss inside?
Panelled Rooms & Period Feel
You read history inside a house built for itTimber floors and sash windows frame temporary shows and Hampstead stories—intimate scale, strong curation.
📍 Ground & first floors
Hampstead Museum Galleries
Local history with good objects, not triviaFrom heath walks to literary neighbours, the displays connect streets outside to lives inside.
📍 First floor, rear
Exhibitions & Events
Illustration, photography and chamber music in domestic scaleShows have featured names like Helen Oxenbury; evenings can mean recitals where the room becomes an instrument.
📍 Throughout the house; check daily board
Café & Garden
A gentle reset after the galleriesGood scones, a quiet garden and wedding-venue charm without the fuss.
📍 Lower ground and rear terrace
Inspire your Friends
- The house was saved for public use by local residents in the late 20th century and is run by an independent charity—very Hampstead in spirit.
- Its compact rooms are regularly used for recitals and talks, keeping the building close to its original life as a social house rather than a silent gallery.
- You can see an art exhibition, a slice of Hampstead history and a wedding set-up in the span of one weekend—few London museums double as beloved community venues this gracefully.
