Geffrye Museum

The Geffrye Museum demonstrates the changing styles of the English domestic interiors, from 1600 to the present day, throughout a series of period rooms and has earned itself a reputation as one of London's most loved museums.

The museum has captured the quintessential style of English middle-class living rooms and the collections of furniture, textiles, paintings and decorative arts are in keeping with each particular period.

Take a step through time as you pass from the 17th century with oak furniture and panelling, into the refined splendour of the Georgian period and the high style of the Victorians. The 20th century modernity is depicted as a 1930s flat, a mid-century room in 'contemporary style' and a late 20th century living space in a converted warehouse.

The museum is set amid elegant 18th century almshouses, the added contemporary wing is surrounded by attractive gardens, including an award-winning walled herb garden and a series of period gardens, open from 1 April to 31 October during museum hours.