Museum of the Home
- Social history enthusiasts
- Architecture and design enthusiasts
- Families with children
What Visitors Say
This is such a great, free museum! Please show it some love and make a donation when you visit. The Gardens Through Time exhibit is absolutely lovely and well worth your time. The lower gallery takes you through several families/individuals as they explore what Home means to them and how home is created amd experienced throughout different cultures, backgrounds, and age groups. The upper gallery provides gorgeous examples of rooms from homes over four centuries. Really neat to see the recreated wallpapers and antique furnishings.
Lovely Museum. Great for children would highly recommend taking the tour of the almshouse which i found the most interesting part. Lovely big green lawn and benches and a back garden if it’s sunny. Sadly the cafe is closed but Breeze on Hoxton High street a few minutes away i would highly recommend
Free and fascinating museum with a wide range of objects spanning centuries. It’s a great place to learn, offering an engaging of different cultures and backgrounds, and painting a comprehensive picture of Londoners at home. The atmosphere is calm and enjoyable, and it wasn’t too busy, so I was able to explore without feeling rushed. The outdoor area is gorgeous. I especially enjoyed the 90s showcase home - it felt very nostalgic.
Incredible museum!! The rooms are incredible to see, very well put together, super well thought through, and very relevant and informative content. I went through all the text beside the rooms and the historical context is incredibly well provided and executed. I spent 1.5 hrs there going through 7 rooms. Absolutely loved it !
(12/28/25) beautiful, unique, and touching museum that makes you reflect on the place you probably take for granted, because it's always there. i got to look at the development of homes as well as family dynamics and traditions here, especially from the "home galleries" exhibition that one of the staff members, morgan, kindly and enthusiastically recommended. i'd had this on my list for half a year now but never got around to making the trip over until i tapped out at hoxton and was met by this place. a well-worth one to spend a sunday at, especially the last of the year. it's not the closest to where i live but i have a feeling i'll be coming back to this museum
Highlights
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
Opening Hours
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.
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