Museum of the Home
The Museum of the Home, formerly the Geffrye Museum, is a free museum in the 18th-century Grade I-listed former almshouses on Kingsland Road in Hoxton, London.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: Tuesday—Sunday 10:00 AM—5:00 PM and public holidays 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in London, specializing in the history of the English domestic interior
- Also known as: “Geffrye Museum” and “The Geffrye Museum of the Home”
- Address: 136 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8EA
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hoxton railway station and North London Railway War Memorial.
Hoxton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hoxton is a station on the Windrush line of the London Overground, located in the London Borough of Hackney in East London. It is on the Kingsland Viaduct, with the station entrance situated on Geffrye Street near Dunloe Street and Cremer Street, behind the Museum of the Home.
Hoxton Hall
Theater building
Photo: Kbthompson, CC BY 2.5.
Hoxton Hall is a performance arts theatre and community centre in the Hoxton area of Shoreditch, at 130 Hoxton Street, in the London Borough of Hackney. Hoxton Hall is situated 780 feet west of Museum of the Home.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dorset Estate and Shoreditch.
Dorset Estate
Neighborhood
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The Dorset Estate is a post-war Modernist housing estate in Bethnal Green, London.
Shoreditch
Suburb
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Shoreditch is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney alongside neighbouring parts of Tower Hamlets, which are also perceived as part of the area due to historic ecclesiastical links.
Haggerston
Suburb
Photo: Robert Lamb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haggerston is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney. It is in East London and part of the East End. There is an electoral ward called Haggerston within the borough.
Museum of the Home
- Categories: independent museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Hackney, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.53151° or 51° 31′ 53″ northLongitude
-0.07644° or 0° 4′ 35″ westOperator
The Geffrye Museum TrustOpen location code
9C3XGWJF+JCOpenStreetMap ID
way 706183718OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q2918086
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Spanish—“Museum of the Home” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Geffrye Museum”
- Basque: “Geffrye Museoa”
- Chinese: “傑弗瑞博物館”
- Chinese: “杰弗瑞博物馆”
- Czech: “Geffrye Museum”
- French: “Museum of the Home”
- Hebrew: “מוזיאון ג’פרי”
- Igbo: “Ebe Ngosi Ihe Mgbe Ochie”
- Japanese: “ジェフリー博物館”
- Slovak: “Geffrye Museum”
- Spanish: “Geffrye Museum”
- Spanish: “Museo Geffrye”
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