Guided Tours
Join us every week for 30 to 45 minute tours taking a deeper look at the objects and stories in our collections.
Events
Identity, Taste and Power: Colonial Histories of Everyday Objects
Fridays at 11am. This talk is subject to guide availability, and may be cancelled at short notice.
What can a porcelain tea set, a silver sugar spoon and a mahogany table tell us...
Fridays at 11am. This talk is subject to guide availability, and may be cancelled at short notice.
What can a porcelain tea set, a silver sugar spoon and a mahogany table tell us about upper-middle class lifestyles in 18th century Britain?
Join Visitor Experience Host Marcia O'Connor for a talk exploring the colonial histories of everyday objects. Visitors are encouraged to consider relationships between the violence and injustice perpetrated by the British Empire overseas and the projection of civility and gentility that arises when taking tea 'at home'.
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Changing Faces in a Changing City: Migration to London in the Age of Sail, 1600-1800
Saturdays at 11am. This talk is subject to guide availability, and may be cancelled at short notice.
“London is in England, but it feels like England is in London” - Thomas...
Saturdays at 11am. This talk is subject to guide availability, and may be cancelled at short notice.
“London is in England, but it feels like England is in London” - Thomas Platter, 1599.
Join Visitor Experience Host Mark Chacksfield as he brings our galleries to life with stories of how and why early migrant communities came to live in London.
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