The Cheapside Hoard. For almost 300 years a buried treasure lay undisturbed below one of London''s busiest streets. No one knew it was there until workmen started to demolish a timber-framed building in Cheapside near St Paul''s Cathedral, in June 1912. The property had stood on the site since the 17th century, but the cellars were older and ...
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries. ... Museum of London Collections; Venue hire; Get involved; Collections Online Object. Shoe. About this object. ID: BC72[79]2496> Production date: Late Medieval; late 14th century. Location:
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries. ... Museum of London Collections; Venue hire; Get involved; Collections Online Object. Brooch. About this object. ID: BUF90[2944]1757> Production date: Saxon. Location: In Store. Measurements.
Learn about the many different fields in which the Museum of London collects, from medieval artefacts to oral history recordings. History of our collections. Discover the …
Museum number Af1981,18.306 | Producer name BIOG129718 Photographed by: Paul Wilson | Production date 1980 - 1981 | Production place Photographed in: Zalingei ... London WC1B 3DG +44 (0)20 7323 8000 ...
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries. ... Museum of London Collections; Venue hire; Get involved; Collections Online Object. Bucket urn. About this object. ID: C594. Production date: Middle Bronze Age; 1500-1200BC.
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries. ... Museum of London Collections; Venue hire; Get involved; Collections Online Object. Window design. About this object. ID: 80.547/7707. Production date: 1966.
Our London Wall museum is now closed to visitors, but is still available for venue hire and private events. The new museum coming in 2026 will be situated at the heart of the capital''s historic Smithfield area next to Farringdon. Until then, the fun continues at our Docklands museum! What''s on at Docklands; Venue hire. Conferences and meetings
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries. ... Museum of London Collections; Venue hire; Get involved; Collections Online Object. Brooch. About this object. ID: VRY89[47]4220> Production date: Medieval. Location: In Store. Materials.
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries. ... Museum of London Collections; Venue hire; Get involved; Collections Online Object. Sundial. About this object. ID: TAV82[16]11> Production date: 1561. Location: In Store.
Taking care of our collections. An important part of the department''s work is collection care, where we ensure that temperature, humidity, light, dust and pest levels in the displays and stores are carefully controlled. Much of this work cannot be physically seen, but without this the bulk of our collections would be actively deteriorating.
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries. ... Museum of London Collections; Venue hire; Get involved; Collections Online Object. Disc brooch. About this object. ID: VRY89[V463]2620> Production date: Medieval. Location: In Store.
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries. ... Museum of London Collections; Venue hire; Get involved; Collections Online Object. Disc brooch. About this object. ID: VRY89[V341]2532> Production date: Medieval. Location: In Store.
The aim of the dress and textile collection is to represent London''s role as a centre for the production, design and consumption of clothes. It contains over 23,000 objects from the Tudor period to the present day. The …
The Museum of London''s collection of over 12,700 objects (many found by Thames mudlarks) provides a picture of what life was like in Saxon and medieval London.
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries. ... Museum of London Collections; Venue hire; Get involved; Collections Online Object. Brooch. About this object. ID: BUF90[2272]538> Production date: Saxon. Location: In Store. Measurements.
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries. ... Museum of London Collections; Venue hire; Get involved; Collections Online Object. NEWSLETTER. OPCS Monitor. About this object. ID: 2007.1/158. Production date: 1975.
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Collection online allows access to almost four and a half million objects in more than two million records. High definition images can be enlarged and examined in detail which will enable you to view the incredible …
Great Fire of London 1666. The Great Fire of London is one of the most well-known disasters in London''s history, and permanently transformed the City of London''s architecture. It began on 2 September 1666 and lasted just under five days. One third of London was destroyed, and about 100,000 people were ... Queen Elizabeth''s Silver …
Our Great Fire of London 1666 gallery may now be closed, but you can still explore the famous fire through our online collection – from articles, objects, games and our …
Collections. The Museum''s 80 million objects form the world''s most important natural history collection. The scientific community is using the collection to answer key questions about the past, present and future of the solar system, the geology of our planet and life on Earth. Search for staff.
Founded in Manchester by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters, the W.S.P.U. aimed to ''wake up the nation'' to the cause of women''s suffrage through ''Deeds not Words''. The decision to relocate the headquarters to London in 1906 transformed the suffrage movement. For the next eight years, the fight to win the vote became a highly public and, …
Medieval pilgrim souvenirs. The Museum of London has an internationally important collection of medieval pilgrim souvenirs in its reserve collection (and also in its Archaeological Archive). Most of the souvenirs are in the form of badges but there are also ampullae (small bottles for holy water), figurines, pendants and other trinkets.
Learn what the Museum of London collects, including our prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Medieval, Tudor and Stuart, decorative arts and textiles collections.
Our London Wall museum is now closed to visitors, but is still available for venue hire and private events. The new museum coming in 2026 will be situated at the heart of the capital''s historic Smithfield area next to Farringdon. Until then, the fun continues at our Docklands museum! What''s on at Docklands; Venue hire. Conferences and meetings
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries. ... Museum of London Collections; Venue hire; Get involved; Collections Online Object. PICTURE POSTCARD. We Want the Vote. About this object. ID: 50.82/856. Production date: 1909.
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries. ... Museum of London Collections; Venue hire; Get involved; Collections Online Object. Brooch. About this object. ID: VRY89[91]4354> Production date: Medieval. Location: In Store. Materials.
Our online collections are a working database providing online access to over a million catalogue records and over half a million images of objects in our collections. We make as much information available as we can and continually enrich and update the database. New text and images are added daily. The V&A''s collections also include the ...
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries.
Find out about the Museum of London and Museum of London Docklands'' collections and their history, including the merging of Guildhall Museum and London Museum.
Discover the history of London at the Museum of London, near St Paul''s and Barbican. The greatest stories from the greatest city in nine galleries. ... Museum of London Collections; Venue hire; Get involved; Collections Online Object. Bodice. About this object. ID: 58.7/3a. Production date: 1861-1863.
When you type in a Museum number, you won''t be offered any suggestions, it will just search for the Museum number that you enter. You''ll need to follow the Museum number format used in the Collection online records. The most commonly used Museum number formats are: NNNN,NNNN.N – e.g. 2020,4004.1; NNNN,NNNN.N-N – e.g. 1856,0909.17-18
The Museum of London''s valentine card collection holds over 1,700 cards produced in the city. Most of these cards were made in the workshops of Islington stationer, Jonathan King. King ran a card-making workshop with his mother next door to his shop in Essex Road. Here staff would assemble cards from parts of paper lace and printed scrap motifs.
2010.6. Production date: 2009. Location: In Store. EnTWINed was commissioned by the Museum of London in December 2008. The idea for the commission came about in 2004, when the Museum bought two paintings by Henry Nelson O''Neil, Eastward Ho! and Home Again. These canvases, painted in 1857 and 1858, show British soldiers embarking for …