From Roman settlement to Docklands’ regeneration, this former sugar warehouse reveals the long history of London as a port through stories of trade, migration and commerce.
Visit our new display of women working across the London 2012 Olympics by Janie Airey.
Curator Tom Wareham tells how London's commercial complexity obscured its role in the slave trade for 150 years.
Celebrate World Poetry Day by listening to expert wordsmithery or take a wordy wander around the docks with spoken-word artist Germander Speedwell.
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Get one free pasta meal for your child with every main adult meal purchased at 1802.
Follow in the steps of London's famous Shakespearian actors with a small display of stage shoes.
From an Elizabethan slip-on uncovered at the site of the Rose theatre, to a slender silk and leather shoe worn by the charismatic actor who inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the footwear on show steps through centuries of Shakespearian players and plays.
Visit our website each day as we bring to life London's Docklands in the early twentieth century through the diary extracts of a young messenger boy employed by the Port of London Authority at this time.