Permanent exhibitions, AD50 - Present Day
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The Museum explores the story of London's River, Port and People, from Roman settlement of the port, through to the recent regeneration of London's former Docklands - a 2000 year storyline.
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Whaling JournalThe Museum is located over five floors of a splendid late Georgian warehouse on West India Quay- literally in the shadow of Canary Wharf. It offers twelve major permanent galleries, a children's gallery, temporary exhibitions, education services, functions suites, a restaurant and a shop.
The galleries show how the docklands region, as well as the River Thames as a whole, has been at the heart of centuries of social and economic change. The permanent displays pay homage to the people who helped to build and shape the City of London- and those who continue to do so. The different galleries can be explored through the links on the right of this page as well as by clicking on the various images which show artefacts found in some of the galleries.
A design approach which unites traditional museum displays and life size reconstructions with multi media technologies, animates a rich and all encompassing storyline in ways which are both engaging and inter-active.
Artefacts, engravings, paintings, testimonies and photographs drawn from the outstanding collections of the Museum of London and the Port of London Authority, emphasise the skills and ingenuity of Dockland communities.
The themes that are covered by the Museum are explored in more detail on this website through pages written by our curatorial and learning staff. Find out more about themes.
Stevedores BannerThe Museum in Docklands is part of the Museum of London Group, which also manages sites at London Wall in the City of London and Eagle Wharf Road in Hackney.
Find out more on our group website at www.molg.org.uk.