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Experience the real flavour of London life from the prehistoric to present day when you visit the Museum of London, a modern museum boasting over 1.1 million objects. Following a £20 million redesign, the five lower Galleries of Modern London take you through the history of the city from the Great Fire of London in 1666 to the present day. Historic pieces on view include precious books, mock-up city streets and vintage cars - the grandest of which is the Lord Mayor's State Coach, still used in the annual Lord Mayor's Show. The galleries include displays as diverse as a reconstructed Georgian pleasure garden and a World City space, where museum items reveal London's post-1914 history through changing tastes in fashion, mobile phones and, moving into the twentieth century, the Art Deco lift from Selfridges department store. In the Sackler Hall, LED lights display facts and figures on interesting topics like London's energy demands or homeless population. The museum has four permanent galleries displaying the story of London from prehistoric times up until the early Stuart period. A chain of chronological galleries guide visitors from 450,000 BC to the founding of Londinium in AD50 and you can even see the old bones of a skeleton aged between 5640 and 5100 years old. Among the 47,000 objects from Roman London are some stunning marble sculptures from the Temple of Mithras which show how this great empire paved the way for the city as we know it. Don't miss fragments of the old London Wall located just outside the museum.
Museum of London events
event Sunday 19th May 2013
TIMES Sunday 19th May 2013 at 12.30pm-1.30pm, 2pm-3pm and 3.30pm-4.30pm PRICING phone for prices
Bring animals in the galleries to life.
event Wednesday 22nd May 2013
TIMES 11am-12noon PRICING Free
event Running from Wednesday 1st May 2013 until Wednesday 22nd May 2013
TIMES 3.30pm-4.30pm PRICING Free, adv booking required
event Saturday 25th May 2013
TIMES Saturday 25th May 2013 at 11am-11.30am, 1pm-1.30pm and 3pm-3.30pm PRICING phone for prices
A dramatic imagining of the life of an Iron Age woman living on the banks of the Thames.
event Running from Saturday 25th May 2013 until Sunday 26th May 2013
TIMES Saturday 25th May 2013 at 12noon-12.30pm, 2pm-2.30pm and 4pm-4.30pm & Sunday 26th May 2013 at 1pm-1.30pm, 2pm-2.30pm and 3pm-3.30pm PRICING Free
Recreate the sights, sounds and movement of the crowded thoroughfare of old London bridge.
event Running from Sunday 12th May 2013 until Sunday 26th May 2013
TIMES Sunday 26th May 2013 at 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm PRICING Free
Explore the galleries through fun, hands-on activities.
event Running from Monday 27th May 2013 until Tuesday 28th May 2013
TIMES Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th May 2013 at 12.30pm-2pm and 2.30pm-4pm PRICING Free
Make a picture about the traditional fair.
event Running from Monday 27th May 2013 until Friday 31st May 2013
TIMES Monday 27th and Friday 31st May 2013 at 1pm-1.30pm, 2pm-2.30pm and 3pm-3.30pm PRICING Free
A true story of two very different women's lives.
event Running from Tuesday 28th May 2013 until Wednesday 29th May 2013
TIMES Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th May 2013 - 10.20am-11.50am PRICING phone for prices
A walk along the foreshore of the River Thames and see what archaeological finds you can discover.
event Wednesday 29th May 2013
TIMES Wednesday 29th May 2013 at 10.30am-11am, 11.30am-12noon and 2pm-2.30pm PRICING phone for prices
Find out about the River Thames in this musical session.
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Museum of London Museum of London - Galleries of Modern London, Selfridges Lift, 1928
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