The Museum of the Home (London) has recently opened its new period rooms. ❤️📍🔱

The rooms explore the diverse histories of the many communities that have made London home over the past 150-years. One of these new rooms is a co-curated display that recreates a 1950s rented room of two Irish newlyweds, getting ready for a night out at the Galtymore dance hall. The room examines the vital importance of Irish migrants in helping rebuild the country after World War II, as well as the difficulties and prejudice many in the community faced when they first moved to Britain.

Join curators from the Museum to get a behind-the-scenes look at how this display was created. Attendees will also hear some of the stories of home and migration, contributed by the London Irish community. 

The Museum wants to hear from you. What are your stories of making home in England? What are the most important objects in your home and what might be missing from our representation of an Irish home?

This event takes place in The Shed, 49 Jamaica Street, in behind 92 Degrees Coffee. Use this Google map. Open during building opening hours (subject to The Shed’s use). The building is open daily between 9am-6pm. To ensure the gallery is open, visit between 9am-5pm Fri 18-Sun 20 Oct or Fri 25-Sun 27 Oct. These times have been reserved for Festival visitors.