London Museum is London’s shared place in the middle of it all. No matter where you’ve come from, how long you’re staying for, or what side of the river you live on, we offer a home for exploration and adventure where all of London’s stories cross and collide.
At our heart we're a social history museum and we tell the stories of how London came to be. But we're also contemporary collectors keeping our finger on the pulse. We're the world's biggest city museum.
At the core of London Museum is our collection, which covers 450,000 years of history through seven million objects drawn from across all 33 boroughs. It's the largest collection in the world relating to a single urban centre.
We want to contribute to positive change in London's communities by:
- representing and celebrating diversity through everything we do
- making everyone feel welcome regardless of their background or needs
- building and sharing a collection of objects that Londoners feel reflect and belong to them
Our people are key to our museum – working with visitors, telling stories, delivering schools programmes, caring for the collection and making sure operations run smoothly.
We really value the diverse skills, knowledge and experience that our volunteers bring. Our volunteers get involved in lots of areas of museum life by:
- providing a warm welcome to schools as they arrive
- helping catalogue our objects, so they're more accessible to a wider audience
- sharing knowledge and lived experience to help bring our collections to life
- supporting family activities
- helping our conservation team to care for our objects
- assisting at events and supporting museum hosts in the galleries
- researching our archives