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Museum of Comedy

Comedy's props, scripts and posters in the crypt of a Hawksmoor church, with shows most nights.

Photo by ell brown, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Nicholas Hawksmoor's St George's Bloomsbury, consecrated in 1730, is the church whose steeple carries a statue of George I dressed as a Roman, and its crypt has held the Museum of Comedy since 2014. It began as the collection of Martin Witts, who runs the Leicester Square Theatre, and it is a room of the things comedy leaves behind: scripts, puppets, props, costumes and posters, from music hall through Hancock, Tommy Cooper and Morecambe and Wise to the alternative circuit. What keeps it alive is the small theatre alongside, which stages stand-up, cabaret and previews of Edinburgh shows most evenings, so that the building is a working comedy venue with a museum attached rather than the other way round.

Where
Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2SH
Nearest station
Holborn · 4 min walk

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