East London's Geffrye Museum will reopen on 19 September* with an £18m facelift — and a brand new name. The Geffrye has been dropped and now it's just going by Museum of the Home. Don't worry, it's ...

London’s Geffrye Museum has changed its name to the Museum of Home, but the institution’s statue of former namesake Robert Geffrye, an English merchant and slave trader, is still a source of ...

The east London museum has revised the project’s brief and is now looking for a new architect to work on the expansion programme. The 1,300m² development will create an entrance opposite Hoxton ...

Wright & Wright’s plans to develop the Geffrye Museum finally look set to go-ahead after the east London museum netted a £12.3 million National Lottery grant Last year the practice won permission from ...

The Geffrye Museum is looking to appoint designers to work on the planned overhaul of its 17th and 18th century domestic interiors rooms. The improvement of the two rooms marks the final stage in a ...

A senior government minister advised an east London museum not to remove the statue of a controversial slave trader – a decision it went through with despite a consultation finding that most people ...

Please join us for Globe’s first public screening of ‘Here Be Dragons’. The film uniquely captures conversations with the public around ideas of home, belonging and community. These personal ...

Touring London’s Geffrye Museum: So that’s what middle-class living rooms were like back then You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Reviews and ...

A museum façade in London’s Hoxton region turned into an unlikely battlefield in the wake of last year’s police murder in the US of George Floyd, a shocking death which triggered Black Lives Matter ...

Protests over a controversial statue in London erupted at the weekend, led by Labour MP and former UK shadow home secretary Diane Abbott and organised by activist organisation Stand Up to Racism. The ...

A controversial statue of a slave merchant may be moved by an east London museum following a public campaign. The monument of Sir Robert Geffrye, who made part of his wealth from slavery and the East ...