Gunnersbury Park Museum
What Visitors Say
Gunnersbury Park House is a fabulous venue to hold your wedding. Steeped with the history of the Rothschild family, their home is a wonderful setting to hold a wedding worthy of Bridgerton. As the venue's Recommended Supplier: wedding planner, the smooth and timely running of your Big Day is guaranteed 💒💍🤍
Gunnersbury Park Museum is a charming local museum set in a lovely historic building. It’s free to enter, which is always a bonus. The exhibits offer some interesting insights into the area's past, but overall it feels a bit limited and could benefit from more interactive displays or updated content. Still, it’s a quiet, pleasant place for a short visit, especially if you're already enjoying the park.
Love this beautiful building and park. So worth a visit. We got to see the kitchens as they would have been a couple hundred years ago when the owners of the house lived there. Very cool! Lovely room for young kids to play. Beautiful rooms that can be hired for weddings and other events. Great view of the park.
Free museum with toilets available. Good museum with a mix of historical, cultural, and current community of the Ealing area. The current state presents the wealth of the Rothschild family in the 1800s. Those elaborate ceiling decor fixtures left me in such awe towards the craftsmanship. They have a small souvenir shop right at the entrance where you can get ice-cream too!
Staff were polite, offered warm welcome plus directions and were both knowledgeable and informative about the exhibition and upcoming events.
Highlights
Rothschild State Rooms
Showcase of 19th-century splendourOrnate ceilings and long enfilades were social technology—designed to choreograph entrances, glances, and gossip.
Ground floor, central suite
Made in Ealing & Hounslow
How suburbs powered a metropolisFrom film studios to factories, the ‘local’ turns out to be global—goods, workers and ideas moving in and out.
First floor, local-industry gallery
Servants’ Spaces & Kitchens
The machine room of the mansionBell boards, scullery sinks and store rooms show how many hands it took to stage a single dinner.
Basement/service areas
Parkland Loop
Landscape as status (and now, commons)What began as a private pleasure ground became one of west London’s best free green spaces.
Outside, lakes and lawns
Opening Hours
Fun Facts
The museum opened in 1929—making it one of London’s earliest purpose-made local history museums.
The house’s bell board once connected to dozens of rooms; a single dinner could require more than 20 staff behind the scenes.
Much of today’s public parkland was the private estate of the Rothschild family—whose parties drew politicians, artists and royalty.
