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  The Museum of London documents the history of London from prehistoric to modern times. The museum is located on London Wall, close to the Barbican Centre.
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  The Museum of London Docklands is a museum on the Isle of Dogs, east London that tells the history of London's River Thames and the growth of Docklands.
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Hidden London

How Bazalgette built London's first super sewer

The Victorian mastermind who cleared London's streets of poo.

Behind the scenes

Introducing the Beasts of London: meet our celebrity voices

Who are the celebrities telling the extraordinary stories of London's beasts?

Look of London

London's lost view: the Prevost panorama

After two centuries, a lost view of London's vanished skyline is revealed again.

London now

Brexit Talks

How has Brexit changed your relationship with London? Submit a video to the Museum of London.

Explore the stories of the world's greatest city and uncover the hidden treasures of our collections.
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Beasts of London

Hear our stories from 5 April 2019

Image of London Before London gallery

London before London

450,000 BC – AD 50

Roman London

50 – 410

Medieval London gallery

Medieval London

410 – 1558

War, Plague and Fire gallery

War, Plague and Fire

1558 – 1666

Our Pleasure Gardens display, re-dressed with new costumes in 2018.

Expanding City

1666 – 1850s

People's City gallery

People's City

1850s – 1940s

World City

1950s – today

The London 2013 Cauldron gallery

The London 2012 Cauldron

The London 2012 Cauldron

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Museum of London Docklands

Discover London through history

Two men in a Victorian brick-lined sewer photographed in the 1960s.

How Bazalgette built London's first super sewer

The Victorian mastermind who cleared London's streets of poo.

Kate Moss voices the Fox in Beasts of London.

Behind the scenes

Introducing the Beasts of London: meet our celebrity voices

Who are the celebrities telling the extraordinary stories of London's beasts?

Museum of London conservators work to restore the Prevost panorama.

London's lost view: the Prevost panorama

After two centuries, a lost view of London's vanished skyline is revealed again.

Brexit Talks

How has Brexit changed your relationship with London? Submit a video to the Museum of London.

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