What's on
All events
Mudlarks family gallery
15 – 27 Oct 2024
Activity
Get hands-on in our interactive play area for under-8s
Secrets of the warehouse tour
16 – 20 Oct 2024
Gallery tour
Delve into the hidden history of our Georgian museum building
Roman fort gate tours
17 – 27 Oct 2024
Guided walk
See the remains of Roman London's military fort – hidden beneath the streets
Great Fire of London family walk
19 – 29 Oct 2024
Guided walk
Join us in the great outdoors to explore the Great Fire of 1666
Roman London family walk
19 – 30 Oct 2024
Guided walk
Go back 2,000 years and walk Londinium's streets
Words, actions & deeds
19 – 27 Oct 2024
Talk
Learn about the influential figures who fuelled the abolition movement
Windrush voices
19 – 27 Oct 2024
Activity
Read and listen to first-hand testimony from the Windrush generation
An introduction to the London, Sugar & Slavery gallery
19 – 26 Oct 2024
Talk
Confront this history head-on and find out its significance to London
Beyond the myths: Black Tudor London
20 – 26 Oct 2024
Talk
Explore the lives, talents and skills of these forgotten figures
Post-war Poplar and the world of Call the Midwife
23 Oct 2024
Guided walk
A guided walk around Poplar uncovering stories from the East End in the 1950s
In & around Smithfield Market
24 Oct 2024
Guided walk
A guided tour through an area packed with medieval and Tudor history
October half term
26 Oct – 3 Nov 2024
Activity
Brighten up the darker days with dance, crafts and storytelling
Windrush & the NHS: A nurse called Ruby
26 Oct 2024
Talk
Hear the story of a Jamaican nurse who answered Britain’s call for help
Walking London’s queer history
26 Oct 2024
Guided walk
Uncover hidden histories that prove queer people have always been here – and always will be
London in lights
28 – 29 Oct 2024
Activity
Create an artwork using silhouettes in this workshop for over-5s
Meet the lamplighter
28 – 30 Oct 2024
Performance
A storytelling adventure travelling to Victorian London
Tots at the docks
30 Oct 2024
Activity
Free monthly play sessions inspired by the history of London's Docklands