Free galleries
London Museum Docklands is home to nine galleries you can visit in person, with each one exploring a different theme of London's river, port and people – all free to visit.
We recommend you explore in chronological order and allow around two hours for your visit. You can start with the No. 1 Warehouse gallery on the Third Floor and work your way down.
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London Museum DocklandsNo. 1 Warehouse: Intro gallery
Our building is a rare survivor of the old docks and its story is at the heart of this gallery
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London Museum DocklandsTrade Expansion: 1600–1800
Meet the merchants, sailors and pirates who transformed London in the 1600s
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London Museum DocklandsLondon, Sugar & Slavery: 1600 – present
Shining a light on London’s overlooked role in slavery
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London Museum DocklandsCity and River: 1800–1840
A city transformed by its river with new docks, new bridges and new tunnels
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London Museum DocklandsSailortown: 1840–1850
Experience the sights, sounds and smells of Victorian London in a recreation of a street in Wapping
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London Museum DocklandsFirst Port of Empire: 1840–1880
When London was at the centre of the British empire and world trade
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London Museum DocklandsWarehouse of the World: 1880–1939
London's docks housed everything you could think of, giving them the title: Warehouse of the World
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London Museum DocklandsDocklands at War: 1939–1945
How London survived and helped the war effort, from Dunkirk to D-Day
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London Museum DocklandsNew Port, New City: 1945 – present
How Docklands was reinvented for a new century – from rebuilding, dereliction and back to rebuilding
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London Museum DocklandsThe Reflections Room
A free-to-visit rotating gallery space for contemporary artists
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London Museum DocklandsPlan your visit
Everything you need to know before your visit to London Museum Docklands
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London Museum DocklandsTop things to see for free
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