About

London Museum is London’s shared place in the middle of it all.

No matter where you’ve come from, how long you’re staying for, or what side of the river you live on, we offer a home for exploration and adventure where all of London’s stories cross and collide.

At our heart we're a social history museum and we tell the stories of how London came to be. But we're also contemporary collectors keeping our finger on the pulse. We're the world's biggest city museum.

At the core of London Museum is our collection, which covers 450,000 years of history through seven million objects drawn from across all 33 boroughs. It's the largest collection in the world relating to a single urban centre.

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“London is a city of people. stories rather than maps will guide you. Memories, history and curiosity, too”

Gemma Seltzer, Writer

Below you'll find everything you need to know about who we are and what we do.