Geffrye Museum

Events at Geffrye Museum

• At Home in London: 1600-1800 at The Geffrye Museum

  Art

  Recurring event

  The At Home in London project includes four new period rooms dated 1630, 1695, 1745 and 1790.

• At Home with the World at The Geffrye Museum

  Museum Exhibition

  20 Mar 2012 to 9 Sep 2012

  At Home with the World highlights domestic objects which have come from overseas or been influenced by other cultures to tell a fascinating story about how many of the designs, decorations, materials and social customs now familiar in homes today and considered to be English, might have originated elsewhere. Visitors are encouraged to engage in a dialogue about their homes and to think about them afresh, exploring how other cultures have shaped personal spaces, ideas about what makes a home and the way people live.

• Concourse Display Area at The Geffrye Museum

  Art

  27 Sep 2011 to 11 Feb 2012

  The Concourse Display Area features series of drawings by Alexandra Blum.

• Cultures Then and Now at The Geffrye Museum

  Museum Exhibition

  13 Mar 2012 to 9 Sep 2012

  A major exhibition of domestic objects, with everything from delicate Chinese tea bowls to turkey-work chairs, which have come from overseas or been influenced by other cultures. It tells a fascinating story about how many of the designs, decorations, materials and social customs considered to be ‘English’, might have originated somewhere else.