Museum of the Home

Museum of the Home's displays will change to reflect changing times

The 20th-century displays in the London institution’s Rooms Through Time galleries are being overhauled to reflect the diverse communities of Hoxton, the historic core of east London and one of the UK’s most gentrified areas

Maev Kennedy

Museum acquisitionsnews

Acquisitions round-up: London museums jointly purchase pre-Raphaelite painting that depicts Jamaican woman

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Hannah McGivern

Public sculpturenews

London museum wants to move controversial slaver statue to 'less prominent space'

Museum of the Home trustees vote to relocate the sculpture after UK government pressured them to keep it

Gareth Harris

Openingsnews

Home truths: east London's museum of domestic life emerges from lockdown after £18.8m makeover

Museum of the Home reopens on 12 June with double the public space in its 18th-century almshouse buildings

Hannah McGivern

Second World Warfeature

What can we learn from museums during the Second World War?

On the 75th anniversary of VE Day, we look back at how art institutions adapted to wartime constraints, from tours without pictures to child's play

Miranda Gabbott