Museum of London Docklands

My husband and I went to this museum and spent well over 3 hours there, (would have stayed longer but my feet were killing me) as there is so much to see there.

It is a very well laid out museum and the exhibits are spectacular. The staff are extremely helpful. The Jack the Ripper and the East End special exhibition is really good as it tells the story of the working class of London which is very often ignored.

I would recommend this museum to people of all ages and abilities.

What can I say? WHAT A BRILLIANT MUSEUM.I recommend it to all of you.Went the other day. It was after 4.30 and it's free most days from 4.30 till 6.00 so that was pretty cool. However, it's only a fiver if you get there early and the ticket they give you LASTS A WHOLE YEAR so you can keep coming back for free any time.It's brilliant. There is no way you can see it in 90 minutes so I am going back.I would have thought that you need a good three hours to do this museum justice. And the Sailor's Village (a model village you walk through) is great for exploring through... great sounds and smells too.And of course, with it being Docklands, you have some of the best restaurants next door. In fact next door to the museum you have eleven restaurants (I counted!) including such mainstays as Browns and Odins.

Housed in an old warehouse a short walk from the Canary Wharf station on the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) this is a super museum. You start on the third floor with the earliest history of the settlement of London and work forward in time as you descend through the building, through the WWII bombing of the docks and the strikes led by Jack Dash in the late 1960's (yes I do remember those happening!)

The development of the Port of London is clearly explained together with an explanation of how changes to London Bridge and the building of the Enbankment narrowed and deepened the river and speeded its flow through to the more recent redevelopment of the abandoned docks into the business & residential areas they now are.

My only negative (?) comment would be that this is such an interesting museum with so much too see that it really requires several visits to take it all in.