Geffrye Museum

Kingsland Road. (Open Map)
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Description

The quintessential style of English middle-class living rooms

Named after Sir Robert Geffrye, former Lord Mayor of London, the Geffrye Museum displays British furniture, textiles, paintings and decorative arts. With emphasis on middle class interiors and furniture, the museum shows the changing style of the English domestic interior from 1600 to the present day

Geffrye Museum is also famous for the "Christmas Past" exhibition, where period rooms are decorated to reflect 400 years of Christmas Traditions in English homes.