Our impact - Museum of the Home
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Our impact - Museum of the Home
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We have a long history of using our collections and creative interventions to educate outside the classroom. Our campaigning work focuses on the issues which affect people’s experiences and ideas of home.
Museum of the Home’s impact goes beyond our offer as a free-of-charge museum. Through our schools programmes, free family programming, collections, and more, we are
delivering on our ambition to live better together.
With social engagement and community outreach at the centre of our programming activity, we aim to lead as a campaigning museum for social justice causes that align with our core values. These include hidden homelessness, food equality, period poverty and climate action.
We advocate for food equality across the UK through our work with sector partners. We will work with our partners
Hackney Foodbank
to deliver their service from the museum and provide a space for the community.
We create a fairer, safer workplace and visit for all people who menstruate with our
Bloody Good Employer
accreditation.
We will continuously advocate for and implement decolonisation and anti-racism practices in our structures, governance, curation, collections and programming. We are working to heal the rifts between the museum and its communities caused by the presence of the statue of Robert Geffrye.
We will continue to work with Voyage Youth in residence, and with broader stakeholders to plan for the redisplay of the statue and give space to histories of colonialism and the home.
Read about the legacy of our buildings
, which were built with money from Robert Geffrye’s investments in transatlantic slavery, and how we rethink the ways we use the buildings.
Projects and case studies
Real Rooms
Find out how our new Rooms Through Time were developed to centre lived experience and diverse narratives about home.
Find out more
Real Rooms
Home Truths
Our socially engaged event series discussing contemporary issues of home.
Find out more
Home Truths
Behind the Door
Our campaign to change the way we think about homelessness.
Find out more
Behind the Door
Climate action
We are sparking debate and rethinking the ways we live, through exploring personal stories of home and the impact of climate change.
Find out more
Climate action
Together We Grow: Discovery Garden
A permaculture garden, developed with local children, schools and communities to learn about growing food, nature and sustainability.
Find out more
Together We Grow: Discovery Garden
What’s Your Cup of Tea?
Bring different communities in Hackney together over a humble cup of tea.
Find out more
What’s Your Cup of Tea?
Young people
Creative responses to the museum in the context of our community.
Find out more
Young people
Comfort Furniture
A short film by Elora Kadir about the objects in our home and the ways in which they bring us comfort.
Find out more
Comfort Furniture
Windrush Programme: Honouring Our Elders
A three-part series, in celebration of the Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation’s 40th anniversary, that aims to highlight their great work.
Find out more
Find out more
Windrush Programme: Honouring Our Elders
Become a Patron
If you love and care about Museum of the Home and want to make a difference, please join us.
Find out more
Skip to content
Home
»
Our work
»
Our impact
We have a long history of using our collections and creative interventions to educate outside the classroom. Our campaigning work focuses on the issues which affect people’s experiences and ideas of home.
Museum of the Home’s impact goes beyond our offer as a free-of-charge museum. Through our schools programmes, free family programming, collections, and more, we are
delivering on our ambition to live better together.
With social engagement and community outreach at the centre of our programming activity, we aim to lead as a campaigning museum for social justice causes that align with our core values. These include hidden homelessness, food equality, period poverty and climate action.
We advocate for food equality across the UK through our work with sector partners. We will work with our partners
Hackney Foodbank
to deliver their service from the museum and provide a space for the community.
We create a fairer, safer workplace and visit for all people who menstruate with our
Bloody Good Employer
accreditation.
We will continuously advocate for and implement decolonisation and anti-racism practices in our structures, governance, curation, collections and programming. We are working to heal the rifts between the museum and its communities caused by the presence of the statue of Robert Geffrye.
We will continue to work with Voyage Youth in residence, and with broader stakeholders to plan for the redisplay of the statue and give space to histories of colonialism and the home.
Read about the legacy of our buildings
, which were built with money from Robert Geffrye’s investments in transatlantic slavery, and how we rethink the ways we use the buildings.
Projects and case studies
Real Rooms
Find out how our new Rooms Through Time were developed to centre lived experience and diverse narratives about home.
Find out more
Real Rooms
Home Truths
Our socially engaged event series discussing contemporary issues of home.
Find out more
Home Truths
Behind the Door
Our campaign to change the way we think about homelessness.
Find out more
Behind the Door
Climate action
We are sparking debate and rethinking the ways we live, through exploring personal stories of home and the impact of climate change.
Find out more
Climate action
Together We Grow: Discovery Garden
A permaculture garden, developed with local children, schools and communities to learn about growing food, nature and sustainability.
Find out more
Together We Grow: Discovery Garden
What’s Your Cup of Tea?
Bring different communities in Hackney together over a humble cup of tea.
Find out more
What’s Your Cup of Tea?
Young people
Creative responses to the museum in the context of our community.
Find out more
Young people
Comfort Furniture
A short film by Elora Kadir about the objects in our home and the ways in which they bring us comfort.
Find out more
Comfort Furniture
Windrush Programme: Honouring Our Elders
A three-part series, in celebration of the Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation’s 40th anniversary, that aims to highlight their great work.
Find out more
Find out more
Windrush Programme: Honouring Our Elders
Become a Patron
If you love and care about Museum of the Home and want to make a difference, please join us.
Find out more