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  Geffrye Museum (London) - Museums National Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Surrounded by the urban sprawl of Shoreditch in the East End of London the Geffrye Museum of Domestic Interiors seems incongruous with its surroundings.
The handsome Almshouses were bequeathed by Robert Geffrye to the Ironmakers Company in 1714 and were used to house the old and the poor of the trade.
The aim of the museum now is to portray the changing lives of the urban middle classes over a period of 500...
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 Geffrye Museum (London) - Review - Who lived in a house like this?
The aim of the museum now is to portray the changing lives of the urban middle classes over a period of 500 years.
The museum is set out in a logical chronological order I starts with an exhibition of chairs from the heavy uncomfy Jacobean ones to more ornate Georgian and Victorian ones right down to the present with our bland mass produced ones.
The Museum does say it is unique as it is looking specifically at the urban middle classes but as a museum buff I felt that I had seen it all before (though it was nice not to have the pit cottages an, privy and mangles of most reconstructed period rooms).
www.dooyoo.co.uk /museums-national/geffrye-museum/1043343   (1725 words)

  
 Assistant Education Officer - Geffrye Museum
Applications are invited for this exciting post at the Geffrye Museum, which specialises in the history of English, middle-class domestic interiors and is well-known for its innovative exhibition and education programmes.
A thriving, dynamic museum with an energetic and committed staff, the Geffrye has strong links with the local community as well as a reputation as a nationally important museum.
We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic educator to contribute to the delivery of teaching sessions mostly to school groups at primary and secondary level and to support the public programme.
www.museumjobs.com /jobdetails.php?JobID=4429   (590 words)

  
 Waitrose.com - London E2: The Geffrye Museum - Waitrose Food Illustrated
Geffrye Museum, London E2 Sophia Beddow pays a visit to the temporal hub of the world in search of fine dining, top taverns, and suspiciously large white tents.
I would also return to The Geffrye Museum to dine: lunch was a good-value, tasty affair.
Built on to the rear of the museum in an architecturally challenging extension opened last winter by the Prince of Wales, the restaurant overlooks the museum's herb garden, an oasis in the urban landscape.
www.waitrose.com /food_drink/wfi/eatingout/london/9908026c.asp   (574 words)

  
 Geffrye Museum's New At Home Galleries Open November 14 - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, ...
London’s Geffrye Museum is due to reopen more than half of its galleries in November 2006 after a major renovation scheme.
The museum charts the development of English middle class domestic interiors from 1600 to the present day and the new At Home project will see the creation of four new period rooms, dated 1630, 1695, 1745 and 1790.
Museum practice, scholarship and society have moved on considerably since their inception and the refurbished galleries will reflect recent ideas and research on this area of social history, say museum staff.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /nwh_gfx_en/ART41211.html   (746 words)

  
 Geffrye Museum, London E2: tourist information from TourUK
The fascinating museum has a series of furnished period rooms showing the changing style of the English domestic interiors from 1600 to today.
The museum also has a reference library and a furniture trade archive and there is an innovative programme of lectures and activities.
The Geffrye Museum is has gardens, including a walled herb garden which is open between April and October.
www.touruk.co.uk /london_museums/geffrye_museum1.htm   (272 words)

  
 Britannia.com: Hidden London by Jan Collie
The museum, at the heart of what used to be the cabinet making district of the city, presents a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day complete with mantelpieces, doorways, carvings and panelling.
The Geffrye Museum is named after Sir Robert Geffrye, Lord Mayor of London and Master of the Ironmongers' Company, who founded the almshouses in 1715.
As well as the period rooms, the Museum is notable for its comprehensive reference library and furniture trade archive.
www.britannia.com /hiddenlondon/geffrye.html   (299 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - The Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, Dalston, London
The museum itself is to be found opposite the Royal Standard Pub on the Kingsland Road just as you're approaching the Shoreditch/Old Street area, past Dalston.
One could argue the case that the museum mainly specialises in the history of very posh domestic interiors (it's not until we visit the showrooms of the 1930s and 1950s do the period rooms on display suggest a more modest social standing) but this is perhaps being a bit picky.
The Museum Guide tells us that walls were often decorated in this way with imported textiles, not only to demonstrate affluence and for the purposes of decoration, but to keep the warmth in.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A646210   (1640 words)

  
 Geffrye Museum
Situated in the area of Shoreditch that used to be the centre of London's furniture trade, this Museum houses a collection of detailed room interiors dating from 1600 to 1950.
The Museum is a fascinating insight into British craft and furniture making, and also provides an insight into the history of family life.
There is also has a walled herb garden showing the historic use of herbs in medicine and cooking.
www.alondonguide.com /geffryemuseum.html   (114 words)

  
 Geffrye Museum | London Sights & Activities | Fodor's Online Travel Guide
Originally, the museum was a row of almshouses for the poor, built in 1716 by Sir Robert Geffrye, former Lord Mayor of London, which provided shelter for 50 pensioners over the course of 200 years.
The houses were rescued from closure by keen petitioners (the inhabitants were relocated to a healthier part of town) and were transformed into the Geffrye Museum in 1914.
The former almshouses were restored to their original condition, with most of the internal woodwork intact, including the staircase, upper floors, closets, and paneling.
www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=london@91&cur_section=sig&property_id=55614   (289 words)

  
 Geffrye Museum on AboutBritain.com
The Geffrye is the only museum in the UK to specialise in the domestic interiors and furniture of the urban middle-class.
museum is set in elegant, 18th century buildings, just north of the City.
The museum and gardens are regularly brought to life through an innovative programme of seminars, workshops, drama and music.
aboutbritain.com /geffryemuseum.htm   (513 words)

  
 Days Out: The Geffrye Museum, Shoreditch, London - Independent Online Edition > UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Built around a pretty tree-lined quadrangle, the museum is a surprisingly peaceful haven in its urban surroundings.
Screened from the busy Kingsland Road by a row of trees, the Geffrye is housed in the former almshouses of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers.
The Geffrye, the UK's only museum to specialise in the domestic interiors of the urban middle classes, has displays spanning from 1600 to 2000 in a series of 11 rooms.
travel.independent.co.uk /uk/article1874646.ece   (411 words)

  
 Geffrye Museum - Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
It is the only museum in the United Kingdom to specialise in the furniture and domestic interiors of the urban middle classes.
The museum is set in the former almshouses of the Ironmongers’ Company, elegant 18th-century buildings surrounded by mature trees and attractive gardens in Shoreditch, East London.
The museum and gardens are brought to life through drama, music, workshops, lectures and seminars.
www.londonfreelist.com /details.asp?id=9   (330 words)

  
 My London Your London » A visit to the Geffrye Museum
It is the complex of almshouses founded in 1714 by Ironmongers’ Company in memory of Sir Robert Geffrye, a wealthy member who left a large part of his estate for philanthropic purposes.
By 1912, however, the once rural almshouses had been swallowed by urbasisation and the pensioners were moved out of London, the local council seeing the need most of all to preserve the front garden as a badly needed “lung” for the area.
The core of the museum is a succession of reconstructed rooms, with explanatory sections between them, but it begins with a single room that tells a history in chairs - “middle-class chairs from 1620s to the present”.
mylondonyourlondon.com /?p=145   (1467 words)

  
 MGM 2005: The Geffrye Museum Tells A Tudor Chair's Tale - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, ...
Six-year-old Jude is outside the Geffrye Museum in Shoreditch.
A new story, A Chair’s Tale, has been written for the Geffrye Museum to tie in with this year’s theme, objects of desire.
He’s genuinely mortified when a thoughtless Victorian family dump the unhappy chair in their attic, but there’s relief all round when it’s rescued for the Geffrye Museum in the 20th century.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /exh_gfx_en/ART28114.html   (838 words)

  
 Girl's Guide to City Life - London: Geffrye Museum, Shoreditch
How refreshing then, to stumble across the Geffrye Museum of English Interiors, housed in an 18th century almshouse and charting the changes in middle-class life over the years through displays of period living rooms from 1600 to the present day.
It's great to see how regular Londoners have lived in different times, and each room is accompanied by slick, modern multi-media exhibits focusing on a specific aspect of life at the time (like the rise in the popularity of tea-drinking) complete with audio clips from novels, diaries, and period music.
The Geffrye is a great educational resource (the museum includes a Domestic Interiors Study Centre for more scholarly types) but it's also a lot of fun.
www.girlsguidetocitylife.com /london/2007/02/geffrye_museum_shoreditch.htm   (252 words)

  
 London Guide - Geffrye Museum
The museum exhibits period room displays from 1600 to the present day.
The museum is named after the 16th century Mayor, Robert Geffrye, who built the almhouses in which the museum is situated.
The museum is laid out so that you walk through room interiors spanning 1600 to the present day.
www.uktravel.com /londoncontent.asp?attID=125&cat=6&catName=Museums&offset=16   (106 words)

  
 Day out on 21 January 07   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
All dishes have pictures on the bottom, and images were shown on the reflection with the mirror attached on top of the glasscase inside, which was designed by the famour designer.
I explained to my cousin that the building of Geffrye Museum used to be almshouse which accommodated low income pensioners in east end in the Victorian era.
There were examples of domestic rooms in Britain from Elizabethan time to the 1990s displayes, together with distinctive pieces of furniture, music instruments, treasure, and equipment, in the Geffrye Museum.
members.aol.com /chihiromark/geffrye.htm   (351 words)

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