Islington Museum

About Islington Museum

The New Islington Museum explores the borough’s history through a number of exciting ways. Objects relevant to the borough’s varied and important history focus on 9 main topics, these are: Food and Drink, Fashion, Childhood, Leisure, Healthcare, Radicals, Caring, Home, and Wartime.

Islington Museum Address

Address:
245 St John Street
Islington
London
EC1V 4NB
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7527 2837

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Location Information for Islington Museum

Address:
245 St John Street
Islington
London
EC1V 4NB
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7527 2837
Public transport: Barbican, Underground

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Events at Islington Museum

  • EYE 5 at Islington Museum

    Museum Exhibition

    9 Mar 2012 to 3 May 2012

    Working with educationalists and professional curators, students from five local schools and colleges have come together to produce an exhibition of work showing the development of visual arts from secondary school to pre-degree level. Comprising of work by students from City and Islington College, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School, Holloway School, Islington Arts and Media School and Mount Carmel RC Technology College for Girls, this exhibition will not only examine the work of young artists themselves but will also give an insight into art education.

  • Islington Museum's collection at Islington Museum

    Museum Exhibition

    Recurring event

    Displays telling the story of Islington's past.

  • Malicious Damage: The Crimes of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell at Islington Museum

    Museum Exhibition

    14 Oct 2011 to 25 Feb 2012

    Malicious Damage' tells the story surrounding the crimes of Orton and Halliwell. In 1962 the aspiring playwright Joe Orton and his partner and mentor Kenneth Halliwell, who lived together in Islington, were each sentenced to six months imprisonment for malicious damage to Islington public library books. The offenders were found guilty of stealing and doctoring library book covers with images from other sources or by adding new text and narrative. They also removed illustrations from library art books to wallpaper their bed-sit at 25 Noel Road. During imprisonment Joe Orton embarked upon what was to be a successful but all too brief writing career, cut short by his murder at the jealous hand of his partner. Islington museum, offers the opportunity to view all of the surviving doctored book covers along with other material reflecting the life and work of the pair.

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