From 1976 to 2022, its main site was in the City of London on London Wall, close to the Barbican Centre, part of the Barbican complex of buildings created in the 1960s and '70s to redevelop a bomb-damaged area of the city. In 2015, the museum revealed plans to move to the General Market Building at the nearby Smithfield site.

Step inside the Museum of London for an unforgettable journey through the capital's turbulent past. In the Galleries of Modern London walk the streets of Victorian times, take a stroll in recreated eighteenth-century pleasure gardens and marvel at …

Step inside the Museum of London for an unforgettable journey through the capital’s turbulent past. Discover prehistoric London, see how the city changed under Romans and Saxons, wonder at medieval London and examine the tumultuous years when London was ravaged by …

The Museum of London is sort of in the Barbican estate, if you extend the boundary to include the podium and high-walks round the corner of Aldersgate Street into London Wall. I am not sure who designed or built it. It doesn’t look as if it was built as part of the estate itself.

Located on London Wall and close to the Barbican Centre, the Museum of London documents,explores and tells the ever changing story of the history of London. This is your story just as much as ours.

Not all the Roman remains are inside the museum itself. A window in the gallery looks out over an intact section of London's city wall, incorporating 2nd-century Roman stonework with later medieval and Victorian restoration.

Dec 22, 2024 · Built in 1977, the brutalist building was home to the world's largest urban history collection, with more than six million objects curated to highlight London's social history.

Nov 18, 2022 · We followed the route tracing the social history of London – from prehistoric to modern – as set out by the architects Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya in 1976 when it was designed as part of the new Barbican Estate.

Step inside the Museum of London for an unforgettable journey through the capital’s turbulent past. The museum recently transformed five galleries, which hold 7,000 objects that transport you through the capital’s tumultuous history from 1666 to the present day.

Jan 21, 2020 · Museum of London's current home is likely to be redeveloped into a Centre for Music, a joint project between the nearby Barbican, London Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall School of Music &...