London Museum Docklands

Holding Emotions

Exhibitions & displays

9 Feb 2024 – 9 Feb 2026

Free

A free display giving a moment to reflect on, process and release emotions

London Museum Docklands

Zak Ové: Exodus

Exhibitions & displays

29 Nov 2024 – 1 Oct 2025

Free

A mixed-media installation exploring migration through the present lens

London Museum Docklands

Caribbean Voices: Shaping Docklands trail

Activity

25 Jan 2025 – 24 Jan 2027

Free

A museum trail shedding light on the Caribbean community's contributions to London Docklands

Blogs & Stories

Games & Sports

Chloe Kelly: Ealing’s Lioness

Goal-scorer, Euros-winner, west Londoner

Building a museum

5 things about Smithfield Market you might not know

What connects London’s iconic Smithfield Market to the Sydney Opera House?

Trades & Workers

West India Docks

These were once the world’s largest docks, built to handle goods from Caribbean slave plantations

Fashion
Fashion

Doll's hat

1881-1885

Roman
Roman

Skillet

Roman

Working History
Working History

Telephone

Plessey

1981

School resources

KS3, KS4, KS5

London's LGBTQ+ history

Examine historical evidence of London’s LGBTQ+ history with these object-rich resources for secondary schools, including an FAQ, timeline and lesson starters

KS1, KS2

Deaf Londoners in the 1660s

Learn about deaf Londoners around the time of the Great Fire of London with these resources suitable for D/deaf learners and everyone else

KS2, KS3

London, Sugar & Slavery gallery visit

Prepare and facilitate your school visit of the London, Sugar & Slavery gallery at London Museum Docklands with this set of printable resources

Everything else

Schools & Communities

Schools resources

Fun ways to learn about London's history, including the Great Fire of London

London borough

Bexley

Links to the Gunpowder Plot and Peasants’ Revolt, and home to arguably the world’s most beautiful sewage works

About

Our history

Find out how we came to be back in 1826