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Rooms Through Time

Eleven London living rooms, 1630 to 2049, each dressed as if somebody just left it.

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In Museum of the Home.

The Museum of the Home is a row of almshouses built in 1714 for retired ironmongers, and behind the front rooms it keeps a sequence of London interiors set four hundred years apart. A hall in 1630 where the whole household including the servants sits down together; a parlour in 1695 shown off to guests; another in 1745 being cleaned before tea; then the Victorians, the mid-century geometrics, a flat in the 1970s, a shared house now, and a speculative room in 2049. The early rooms are prosperous and middle class because those are the interiors that survive; the later ones deliberately widen out to the other ways Londoners have actually lived. Free, and the rooms are redressed through the year, most dramatically for the winter programme.

Where
Museum of the Home, 136 Kingsland Road, E2 8EA
Nearest station
Hoxton · 1 min walk

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