Burgh House & Hampstead Museum

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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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Opening Hours

Sunday: 10:00 – 16:00

Wednesday: 10:00 – 16:00

Thursday: 10:00 – 16:00

Friday: 10:00 – 16:00

What's not to miss inside?

Panelled Rooms & Period Feel

You read history inside a house built for it

Timber floors and sash windows frame temporary shows and Hampstead stories—intimate scale, strong curation.

Pick one room and list three clues that say ‘home’ not ‘museum’—then read the labels with that in mind.

📍 Ground & first floors

Hampstead Museum Galleries

Local history with good objects, not trivia

From heath walks to literary neighbours, the displays connect streets outside to lives inside.

Find one map/photo pair that overlaps with your walk here and trace what changed.

📍 First floor, rear

Exhibitions & Events

Illustration, photography and chamber music in domestic scale

Shows have featured names like Helen Oxenbury; evenings can mean recitals where the room becomes an instrument.

If there’s a performance listed, plan your loop to end there—you’ll hear the house.

📍 Throughout the house; check daily board

Café & Garden

A gentle reset after the galleries

Good scones, a quiet garden and wedding-venue charm without the fuss.

Grab a seat outside and jot three things you noticed upstairs you’d have missed in a bigger museum.

📍 Lower ground and rear terrace

🤓 Fun Facts

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.