#geffrye museum

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Feeling stressed / take a rest

(Grafitti in Hoxton, London, March 2023)

[the-painting-space]

Thomas Cantrell Dugdale: Hunger Marchers arriving in London, seen from a club in Pall Mall (Geffrye Museum)

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Thomas Bardwell - Selfportrait - 1765

Thomas Bardwell (1704 – 9 September 1767) was an English portrait and figure painter, art copyist, and writer.

Bardwell initially earned his living initially as a painter of decorative panels for his family's business in Bungay, Suffolk.

His earliest known portraits are two conversation pieces dated 1736; one, possibly showing the Brewster family of Beccles, is in the collection of the Geffrye Museum. In 1746 he was commissioned by the artillery company in Norwich to paint a portrait of William Crowe (who became mayor the following year), breaking the monopoly on civic portraiture in the city held until then by the German-born John Theodore Heins. It became the first of nine portraits by Bardwell that were to be hung in St Andrew's Hall in Norwich.

He painted several portraits in London during the 1740s and 1750s. One, Joshua Ward Receiving Money from Britannia (and Bestowing it as Charity on the Needy) (1748) is an allegorical work, showing Ward, a London doctor, with symbolic figures of Britannia and Charity and a crowd of patients. Now in the collection of the Royal College of Surgeons, it once hung in the Ward's parlour in Whitehall. There is an engraving after it, of 1748-9, probably by Bernard Baron.

In 1752-3 Bardwell carried out a large number of commissions in Yorkshire and Scotland. Eventually, in 1759, he settled permanently in Norwich. An obituary in a Norwich newspaper was to describe him as "an eminent portrait painter of this city, who principally through the power of genius and dint of application, acquired a degree of perfection in his art, which would have been deemed excellent, even had it been accompanied with a liberal tuition." According to A General History of the County of Norfolk, published in 1829, "the best of his portraits are at Langley; Mr. Turner and Mr. Carr, both of [Norwich] have historical subjects by him."

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Florence, Arthur and Charles Moore on a sea-shore, 1868 by William Crosbyoil on cardboard, 1868The Geffrye Museum of the Home, London, UK

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🇬🇧✨ Exploring London: 100 Must-See Sights ✨🇬🇧

Looking to uncover the magic of London? 🌟 Whether you're a first-time visitor or a seasoned explorer, the city is brimming with iconic landmarks, hidden gems, and cultural treasures waiting to be discovered. Here's a comprehensive list of 100 must-see sights to add to your London itinerary:

Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament

The Tower of London

Buckingham Palace and the Changing of the Guard

The British Museum

The London Eye

The Shard

St. Paul's Cathedral

The Tate Modern

The National Gallery

The West End Theatre District

Tower Bridge

The Victoria and Albert Museum

The Natural History Museum

The Science Museum

Covent Garden

Trafalgar Square

The Royal Albert Hall

The Globe Theatre

The Royal Opera House

The Emirates Stadium (Arsenal)

The Royal Observatory Greenwich

The Cutty Sark

The National Maritime Museum

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The London Zoo

The Regent's Park and Primrose Hill

The Royal Academy of Arts

The Barbican Centre

The National Portrait Gallery

The Museum of London

The London Transport Museum

The Sherlock Holmes Museum

The Tate Britain

The Somerset House

The Sky Garden

The Churchill War Rooms

The Kensington Palace

The London Dungeon

The Shard Viewing Gallery

The Camden Market

The Brick Lane Market

The Borough Market

The Greenwich Market

The Portobello Road Market

The Columbia Road Flower Market

The King's Road

The Hampstead Heath

The Royal Courts of Justice

The Whitechapel Gallery

The Serpentine Galleries

The Saatchi Gallery

The Electric Cinema

The O2 Arena

The Leadenhall Market

The St. James's Park

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

The Grant Museum of Zoology

The Hunterian Museum

The London Mithraeum

The Royal Festival Hall

The Southbank Centre

The Museum of London Docklands

The Design Museum

The Victoria Miro Gallery

The Bank of England Museum

The Cartoon Museum

The Benjamin Franklin House

The Imperial War Museum

The Foundling Museum

The Geffrye Museum

The Horniman Museum and Gardens

The Old Operating Theatre Museum

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich

The Royal Air Force Museum

The Royal Institution

The Freud Museum

The Wellcome Collection

The Pollock's Toy Museum

The Royal Hospital Chelsea

The Fan Museum

The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

The Guildhall Art Gallery

The Dennis Severs' House

The Florence Nightingale Museum

The Cartoon Museum

The Courtauld Gallery

The Cinema Museum

The Museum of Brands, Packaging, and Advertising

The William Morris Gallery

The Sir John Soane's Museum

The Grant Museum of Zoology

The Hunterian Museum

The London Fire Brigade Museum

The Charles Dickens Museum

The Dr. Johnson's House

The London Film Museum

The Museum of the Order of St John

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

The Ragged School Museum

The Royal London Hospital Museum

With this extensive list, your London adventure promises to be an unforgettable journey through history, culture, and art. Happy exploring, Tumblr travelers! 🏰🎨🌟

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Case Study - The Ethelburga Tower.

In 2009, Mark Cowper, a photographer who was living in Ethelburga Tower at the time, staged an exhibition of photographs at the Geffrye Museum (now the Museum of the Home) of individual living rooms in Ethelburga Tower, which highlighted how differently each resident had decorated their flat.

This was interesting as this exhibition acted as a type of social experiment to how home can be an identity. Another interesting thought

Article about the Ethelburga Tower.

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Two Views of Geffrye Museum, Hoxton/Hackney, London, 1978.
 The museum, currently closed for renovations, is situated in an old workhouse in an area which was once part of the extensive slums of East London. When open, the museum has a fascinating collection of rooms from past eras. Apologize for the mixture of place references, but it is difficult to keep up with the place names applied in London, and elsewhere in the UK.

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Merry Christmas (Past)!

Something to look forward to in the new year is the reopening of the Geffrye Museum, now rebranded as the Museum of the Home after two years of renovations. I’m excited about seeing the new galleries and spaces and hope to visit soon after it reopens in summer 2020.

Amongst all the new though, hopefully the Christmas Past exhibit will be making a return next winter, showing the evolution of British Christmas decorations from Elizabethan wreaths and garlands, through the simple sprigs of holly in the 18th Century and the Victorian revival of the festive season, up to the plastic trees and fairy lights of the modern era.

For now, a look back at the last iteration of the exhibition in 2017, and Happy Holidays to all!

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London—Geffrye Museum

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The Geffrye Museum, London at Christmastime.

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Geffrye museum. I was at the Geffrye museum in Hoxton on Friday leading a publishing study day about guide books. I really do love the Geffrye. It's such a unique museum in old alms houses. They have a lovely permanent collection, a great shop, a nice cafe and beautiful gardens including a small but perfectly formed walled herb garden. They are closing in January 2018 to undergo a 2 year transformation to expand and improve their offering. Quite an undertaking. I wish them well!

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[englishfields]

during our last week in london we visited the tate britain and the geffrye house: museum of the home - we actually visited the geffrye house on ‘takeover day’, which was when a grade 3 or 4 class came and ‘took over’ the running of the museum for an hour or two! they taught us about what homes were like during the tudor period (not super useful for our courses but gosh were they cute !!). they also had activities for us to do that were ‘very easy’ (i am quoting a very serious little boy who informed me that ‘none of these are hard, they’re all very easy’) but i swear.... none of us ‘grown ups’ could seem to figure them out 

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1870 drawing room, The Geffrye, Museum of the Home by jacquemart Via Flickr: The Geffrye, Museum of the Home

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