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Opening Hours
Sunday: 10:00 – 17:00
Tuesday: 10:00 – 17:00
Wednesday: 10:00 – 17:00
Thursday: 10:00 – 17:00
Friday: 10:00 – 17:00
Saturday: 10:00 – 17:00
What's not to miss inside?
Rooms Through Time
Four centuries of interiors in a dozen stepsFireplace to flat-screen: watch fuel, fabrics and furniture mutate while social habits do the same.
📍 Main terrace, ground & first floors
Almshouse Story
Where the museum sits shapes what it showsThe buildings housed retired tradespeople—modest, ordered lives whose rhythms still echo in the plan.
📍 South range, period context panels
Home & Now
Beyond décor—belonging, budgets, and bordersAudio, film and objects map the emotional and financial realities behind an address.
📍 Galleries near the entrance
Gardens & Scent Walk
Smell as a memory machineRosemary, lavender and old fruit varieties reset the senses after tight rooms.
📍 Rear herb garden and borders
🤓 Fun Facts
The museum’s terrace is a working set of 1714 almshouses—step count and window rhythm are original, not stage dressing.
You can spot the ‘fuel switch’ through time: candle → coal → gas → electric, each changing ceiling height, wall colour and grime.
Several ‘Rooms Through Time’ are periodically refreshed with real donor stories—some sofas and sideboards belonged to Londoners you could pass on the bus.
The museum was long called the Geffrye Museum; its 2020s reinvention widened the brief from ‘pretty rooms’ to ‘what home costs and means’—a subtle but major pivot.
