Foyer displays
Information about current and forthcoming displays taking place in the Museum of London foyer areas can be found on this page.
Current displays in the foyer:
Flashback
13 May 2009 - spring 2010
Using objects from Museum of London's collections, photographic artist Tom Hunter has created a series of unique and surprising portraits, in celebration the opening of our new Galleries of Modern London in spring 2010.
Like a time lord travelling from one period to the next, Hunter has stolen moments from several eras juxtaposing modern London icons like the Vespa scooter with a Museum designer dressed in a 1770s ‘panier’ dress. The beautifully staged portraits are rich with colour yet intensely dark, reminiscent of the old masters style.
Artist Tom Hunter says, ‘In these portraits I wanted to convey the freedom to travel in time, as you would do when you walk through the Museum itself. But unlike the Museum, which sets out to make sense of history, I set out to confuse by creating surprising portraits that steal from different times and fashions’.
Forward to Freedom: The Anti-Apartheid Movement and the liberation of southern Africa
12 June – 6 September 2009
For nearly 50 years people across Britain campaigned against apartheid and white minority rule in southern Africa. At the heart of this campaign was London: centre of empire, a national and international stage and home of the Anti-Apartheid Movement between 1959 and 1994. Find out who was involved, what action they took and how they supported the people of southern Africa in winning their freedom.
In collaboration with the AAM Archives Committee
Read the speech at the opening of the Forward to Freedom display given by Professor Jack Lohman (Word 38kb)