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The Geffrye Museum is one of London’s best-loved museums. It shows the changing style of the English domestic interior in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day.
Walk through of a Victorian House
Examples of past exhibitions and study days are:
Choosing the Chintz: Men, women and furnishing the home, from 1850 to the present
14 October 2008 - 22 February 2009
Choosing the Chintz draws upon new research about the home to tell a surprising story about domestic decoration and furnishing. A range of evidence, including paintings, furniture, decorative arts, photographs, film, archival personal testimonies and trade catalogues, will be employed to explore men’s relationship with furnishing the home in the nineteenth century, illuminating the way in which they actively engaged with the look and feel of their home. The exhibition will also highlight the changes that took place to make women the prime marketing target for furnishings in the early twentieth century. Finally it asks how men and women go about choosing their furnishings today. A major study day and a range of talks will accompany the exhibition.
Choosing the Chintz Study Day
Saturday 7 February 2009, 10.00am - 4.30pm
Speakers included Deborah Cohen, author of Household Gods, The British and their possessions; Lesley Hoskins, design historian; Dr Jane Hamlett, who will discuss gendered spaces in 19th century homes and historian Quintin Colville.
Current exhibitions include:
Ethelburga Tower: At home in a high-rise
Photographs by Mark Cowper
Opens 7 April and runs until 31 August 2009
Restored Historic Almshouse
June - December 2009
Visit one of the Geffrye's 18th-century almshouses which has been fully restored to its original condition, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of London's poor and elderly in former times
Windows of the mind
Why do some spaces feel 'right' and others make us anxious? What makes one person a minimalist and another crave the cosy hearth?
Woolworths - how the shops have changed over the years, architecturally and culturally
New specification page on Spaces and Places may also be relevant here
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