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Admission FREE Museum of London Group visits To mark the opening we will be launching a number of new We are very grateful to all the donors to the Galleries
150 London Wall, Groups of 10 or more people can take advantage of tours and displays. Take part in an interactive installation by artists of Modern London and Clore Learning Centre, including
Opening times London, EC2Y 5HN other benefits. Call 020 7001 9844. Thomson and Craighead, with a kaleidoscope of photographs the Heritage Lottery Fund, DCMS, City of London, the
Open daily 10am – 6pm www.museumoflondon.org.uk submitted by Londoners. You can explore the Singh Twins’ Clore Duffield Foundation, the Dr Mortimer and Theresa
Closed 24–26 December +44 (0)20 7001 9844 Schools response to paintings in the new galleries, with an extraordinary Sackler Foundation and the Garfield Weston Foundation.
We offer free visits, sessions, videoconferences and INSET collision of contemporary and Indian miniature style,
Museum of London Planned engineering works courses for primary, secondary and special schools to enrich along with prints of inner-city life from provocative British artist Buy your own Year of London’s History
is easy to get to! on the Underground may teaching across the curriculum. See the Learning section of Keith Coventry. Find out more on our website. A Timeline rail inscribed with the Years of London’s History –
Barbican, St Paul’s, disrupt your journey so our website for details. from 1666 to 2012 – runs around the new galleries. If you
Moorgate please check www.tfl.gov.uk Family visits would like to commemorate an important personal event,
Liverpool St, City before you visit. Eating and drinking Innovative interactive technology specifically designed for corporate anniversary or significant date in London’s history,
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new café and bar restaurant with benugo in May 2010. Amber Bielby on 020 7814 5593 or at
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The new Galleries of Modern London Top 10 treasures
Discover the story of the world’s Make sure you don’t miss our top
greatest city and its people ten treasures in the new galleries
The Lord Mayor’s
The spectacular £20 million Galleries of Modern London,
opening on 28 May 2010, tell the story of London and its people State Coach
from 1666 to the present day. Three years in the making, Marvel at the magnificent
five new galleries show how the vibrant and unflagging energy Lord Mayor’s State Coach,
of Londoners has shaped this global city. built in 1757, in its new
glass-fronted gallery
7,000 objects, show-stopping interactives, specially designed overlooking London Wall.
family areas, film and changing displays transport you through
the capital’s tumultuous history, rich with drama, triumph and
near disaster.
The Fanshawe dress
From the devastation of the Great Fire of 1666 to wonders of Admire this exquisite dress
invention at the Great Exhibition in 1851, the Suffragettes’ fight made from local Spitalfields silk
for voting rights to the fashions which made the sixties swing, weaved by French Huguenots
the galleries are an immersive experience of rebirth and renewal,
The Rhinebeck Panorama, c.1806–7
and worn by Ann Fanshawe
of excess and of struggle. Every artefact tells a personal story when her father was Lord
as Londoners reinvent their city and are changed by it. Mayor of London in 1752-53.
We have ambitious future plans to further redevelop our 10
galleries and public spaces. Like the city we celebrate, there is
always something new to see and explore here. Be here and
Wellclose Prison cell
become a part of London’s journey.
Step inside this original 18th
century prison cell and read
the graffiti engraved by the
unfortunate prisoners serving
time for unpaid debts.
Pleasure Gardens
Stroll through our beautifully
recreated late 18th century
pleasure gardens, full of period
costumes and specially
commissioned masks
and hats by contemporary
milliner Philip Treacy.
Two young men in Carnaby Street, 1967 The Future of London
© Henry Grant Collection/Museum of London © GMJ Design 2008.
Charles Booth’s Map
1 of Poverty, 1887-9
Follow the colour-coded
streets of Charles Booth’s
Descriptive Map of London
Poverty and explore the
wealthiest and poorest areas
in late 19th century London
through our interactive map.
2 Bartlett’s painting of the Poll
Victorian Walk
6 By permission of the artist.
Enjoy a little window shopping
along the streets of the
3
Victorian Walk and stop in at
the local pub.
Emmeline Pankhurst’s
hunger strike medal, 1912
4 Follow the Suffragette struggle
to win Votes for Women
and learn how protest and
militant action on the streets
of London led to the
imprisonment of over 1000
women, many of whom went
on hunger strike.
5 Vespa scooter, 1959 8
Travel back to sixties London
where Carnaby Street was a
centre for sharply-dressed
mods and the capital’s roads
were filled with scooters.
9
History Painting, 1993–4
Reflect on London’s history
of protest through John
Tax riots in Trafalgar Square
on 31 March 1990.
© John Bartlett
London Fields East – 10
the Ghetto, 1994
Glimpse the lives of East
End squatters as you peek
through the windows
of this extraordinary
photosculpture created
7 by acclaimed artists James
Mackinnon
Right: Douglasand Tom
Vespa Hunter.
motorcycle,
By permission of the artists.
1957,
owned by Eric Montague, a keen
member
of the South London Vespa Club.