new galleries of modern london (opening may 28 -- "full screen")

Groupvisits Groups o 10 or more people can take advantage o tours and other benets. Call 02070019844. Schools We oer ree visits, sessions, videoconerences and INSET courses or primary, secondary and special schools to enrich teaching across the curriculum. See the Learning section o our website or details. Eatin ganddrinking The Museum’s caé is run by award-winning company benugo. The caé oers resh hot and cold deli lunches, sandwiches, wraps, salads plus a wide range o cakes and airly-traded coees and teas. High chairs are available or children and our lunch space is open on weekends. The Museum will open a new caé and bar restaurant with benugo in May 2010. Accessand acilitiesor visitorswith disabilities The Museum is ully accessible to wheelchair users. The new galleries include induction loops, Braille panels, touch objects and an audio guide or visitors with visual impairments. Please call or visit our website to nd out about the acilities that may help you during your visit. To mark the opening we will be launching a number o new displays. Take part in an interactive installation by artists Thomson and Craighead, with a kaleidoscope o photographs submitted by Londoners. You can explore the Singh Twins’ response to paintings in the new galleries, with an extraordinary collision o contemporary and Indian miniature style, along with prints o inner-city lie rom provocative British artist Keith Coventry. Find out more on our website. Familyvisits Innovative interactive technology specically designed or amilies, including those with children under ve, will be ully integrated into our new galleries so you can enjoy learning about London’s history together. You can also join us or ree regular events every weekend and holiday, or enjoy activities in the galleries (subject to availability). HostyoureventatMuseumoLondon The Museum’s venue hire spaces have also been transormed and include a brand new lecture theatre or 220 people, meeting spaces and an interactive media centre. In addition, the Galleries o Modern London will include spaces or drinks receptio ns or up to 1,000 people and dinner or 3 00 people. Pleas ecall0207814 5613or5615. Bethefrstto knowabouteventsandexhibi tions Have details o events and exhibitions, plus oers, sent straight to your inbox by signing up to our ree newsletter. Sign up and be entered into our prize draw to winaniPodnano! Visit www.museumolondon.org.uk/enewsor pick up a comment card during your visit. Terms and conditions apply. Reuse and recycle Inormation or visitors We are very grateul to all the donors to the Galleries o Modern London and Clore Learning Centre, including the Heritage Lottery Fund, DCMS, City o London, the Clore Dueld Foundation, the Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation and the Gareld Weston Foundation. BuyyourownYearoLondon’sHisto ry A Timeline rail inscribed with the Years o London’s History – rom 1666 to 2012 – runs around the new galleries. I you would like to commemorate an important personal event, corporate anniversary or signicant date in London’s history, and help us und these wonderul galleries, please get in touch. Visit www.museumolondon.org.uk/buyayear. To nd out how you can buy your own Year o London’s History and support the transormation o the Museum, please contact Amber Bielby on 02078145593or at abielby@museumolondon.org.uk JointheFriendsotheMuseumoLondon Get yoursel a backstage pass to the capital with exclusive tours and special oers. Call 02078145507or visit www.museumolondon.org.uk/riends Displays and events Planning your visit For a large print, text-only version o this leafet call 020 7001 9844 AdmissionFREE Openingtimes Open daily 10am – 6pm Closed 24–26 December MuseumoLondon iseasytogetto! Barbican, St Paul’s, Moorgate Liverpool St, City Thameslink, Farringdon 4,8,25,56,100,172 ,242,521 MuseumoLondon 150 London Wall, London, EC2Y 5HN www.museumolondon.org.uk +44(0)2070019844 Planned engineering works on the Underground may disrupt your journey so please check www.tl.gov.uk beore you visit. How you can support us Map© CrownCopyright. Allrightsreserved.City oLondon 1000232432010 D i s c o v e r L o n d o n s s e c r e t t r e a s u r e s i n t h e n e w G a l l e r i e s o f M o d e r n L o n d o n F R E E E N T R Y Datacollectedwillonly beusedby theMuse uminrelati ontoitsown businessandthat oits sponsors. TheMuseumwill neversellyour data. The new Galleries o Modern London Discover the story o the world’s greatest city and its people Right:DouglasVespa motorcycle, 1957, owne dbyEricMontagu e,akeen member ofthe SouthLondonVespa Club. Top 10 treasures Make sure you don’t miss our top ten treasures in the new galleries 1 Charl esBooth’sMap oPoverty ,1887-9 Follow the colour-coded streets o Charles Booth’s Descriptive Map o London Poverty and explore the wealthiest and poorest areas in late 19th century London through our interactive map. VictorianWalk Enjoy a little window shopping along the streets o the Victorian Walk and stop in at the local pub. EmmelinePankhurst’s hungerstri kemedal,1912 Follow the Suragette struggle to win Votes or Women and learn how protest and militant action on the streets o London led to the imprisonment o over 1000 women, many o whom went on hunger strike. Vespascooter, 1959 Travel back to sixties London where Carnaby Street was a centre or sharply-dressed mods and the capital’s roads were lled with scooters. HistoryPainting, 1993–4 Refect on London’s history o protest through John Bartlett’s painting o the Poll Tax riots in Traalgar Square on 31 March 1990. By permission o the artist. LondonFieldsEast– theGhetto,1994 Glimpse the lives o East End squatters as you peek through the windows o this extraordinary photosculpture created by acclaimed artists James Mackinnon and Tom Hunter. By permission o the artists. 5 2 6 7 9 10 TheFutur eofLondon ©GMJDesign2008. TheRhinebeckPanorama, c.1806–7 3 10 © J o h n B a r t l e t t Twoyou ngmeninCarnabyStre et,1967 ©Henry GrantCollection/Museumof London 8 The spectacular £20 million Galleries o Modern London, opening on 28 May 2010, tell the story o London and its people rom 1666 to the present day. Three years in the making, ve new galleries show how the vibrant and unfagging energy o Londoners has shaped this global city. 7,000 objects, show-stopping interactives, specially designed amily areas, lm and changing displays transport you through the capital’s tumultuous history, rich with drama, triumph and near disaster. From the devastation o the Great Fire o 1666 to wonders o invention at the Great Exhibition in 1851, the Suragettes’ ght or voting rights to the ashions which made the sixties swing, the galleries are an immersive experience o rebirth and renewal, o excess and o struggle. Every arteact tells a personal story as Londoners reinvent their city and are changed by it. We have ambitious uture plans to urther redevelop our galleries and public spaces. Like the city we celebrate, there is always something new to see and explore here. Be here and become a part o London’s journey. TheLordMayor’s StateCoach Marvel at the magnicent Lord Mayor’s State Coach, built in 1757, in its new glass-ronted gallery overlooking London Wall. TheFanshawe dress Admire this exquisite dress made rom local Spitalelds silk weaved by French Huguenots and worn by Ann Fanshawe when her ather was Lord Mayor o London in 1752-53. WellclosePrisoncell Step inside this original 18th century prison cell and read the grati engraved by the unortunate prisoners serving time or unpaid debts. PleasureGardens Stroll through our beautiully recreated late 18th century pleasure gardens, ull o period costumes and specially commissioned masks and hats by contemporary milliner Philip Treacy. 4

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