Skip to main content

FREE ENTRY Docklands open Monday-Sunday, 10am-5pm Plan your visit For families For schools Collections

Museum of London Docklands
Museum of London
- Our London Wall museum is now closed to visitors, but is still available for venue hire and private events.
  The new museum coming in 2026 will be situated at the heart of the capital’s historic Smithfield area next to Farringdon.
  
  Until then, the fun continues at our Docklands museum!
  What's on at Docklands
- Venue hire
West Smithfield
Discover

Discover London Through History
View all

Music

East London and the popularity of gospel choirs

The Jubilee Singers sang for Queen Victoria in 1873, but gospel choirs became popular only in the 1960s. Now they often sing with icons like Madonna.

Behind the Scenes

Rare books: What makes them special and how to care for them

What makes a book rare? Tips on identifying special books, storage and safe handling techniques to preserve these literary artefacts.

Fashion

Music icons, Soho fashion streets & the Swinging 60s

From The Beatles to The Rolling Stones, and from Carnaby Street to West End, here’s how music and fashion were intrinsically linked in 1960s’ London.

Londoners

Disability: A child’s perspective from 1950s’ London

These photos of disabled children in specialist schools in 1950s’ London attempt to fill a crucial gap in documenting our history.
Shop
Support us
Support us
Account

Monday 6 & 13 & 20 July 2020, 2-2.30pm

Live streamed to your home

Great Fire of London live streams

Watch these exciting events again for FREE!

In this section

We ran three exciting live streams for families and schools about London's most famous fire.

Click below for details, recordings and transcripts of each one!

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: These live streams are free to watch exclusively on the museumoflondon.org.uk website, our YouTube channel or our verified Facebook page and you do not need to enter any payment details. Any similar events that ask you to do this are fake. Many thanks.

An illustration of colourful flames against a white background.

Also of interest...