Many East Ends
2011 - 2012
With your help, the museum is hoping to explore life and change in the East End within living memory.
Many East Ends
Many East Ends is the beginnings of an idea for a new gallery to replace New Port, New City at the Museum of London Docklands. It will be a changing display about the East End within living memory produced collaboratively with East Enders.
Until February 2012, we are undertaking a programme of research, consultation and collaboration with a wide range of individuals and groups in order to explore, question, refine and clarify the idea for Many East Ends.
Our aim is to establish a firm concept for the gallery by March 2012.
Read on to find out about the latest opportunities to have your say.
Journey to the Heart of the East End
Artist Adam Dant is creating a new work for Many East Ends. He and his scouts are travelling East London and talking to the people they meet along the way in an attempt define the boundaries of the East End and to locate its heart. Adam will then use the evidence gathered to draw a new map of the area.
“The population of the Eastern regions of the capital are entreated to welcome these scouts into their neighbourhoods and are also called upon to contribute to this cartographic survey by forwarding their opinions as to where they believe the 'Heart of East London' is located.”
Submit your opinions on the ‘Heart of East London’ to: manyeastends@museumoflondon.org.uk
The Ends of the Earth
Did you live in the East End as a child?
Have you got cockney ancestors?
Thousands of people left the East End in the decades after the Second World War, dispersing a once tight-knit community around outer London, Kent and Essex and beyond.
Soon, we will be asking people who still feel a connection to the East End, but who no longer live here, to send a postcard home.
For further information, email manyeastends@museumoflondon.org.uk
