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| :The British Library is a major research library, with items in many languages and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Library's collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial holdings of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 2000 BC. In addition to receiving a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland (approximately 8,000 per day), the Library has a programme for content acquisitions. The Library adds some three million items every year occupying 9.6 kilometres (6.0 mi) of new shelf space.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "British Library," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library, accessed 20 June 2017.</ref> | | :The British Library is a major research library, with items in many languages and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Library's collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial holdings of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 2000 BC. In addition to receiving a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland (approximately 8,000 per day), the Library has a programme for content acquisitions. The Library adds some three million items every year occupying 9.6 kilometres (6.0 mi) of new shelf space.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "British Library," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library, accessed 20 June 2017.</ref> |
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| '''Brent Museum'''<br>The Library at Willesden Green<br>95 High Road<br>Willesden, London NW10 2SF UK<br>Telephone: 020 8937 3600<br>
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| Email: [mailto:museum.archives@brent.gov.uk museum.archives@brent.gov.uk]<br>[https://www.brent.gov.uk/museum Website]
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| :Brent Museum has been collecting material about the history of Brent for over 50 years and we have over 10,000 objects in our collection. We have items which are thousands of years old but we also collect from the people living and working in Brent today so that our collection represent all communities, past and present.
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| '''Bruce Castle Museum'''<br>Lordship Lane<br>Haringey, London N17 8NU UK<br>Telephone: 020 8808 8772<br>Email: [mailto:museum.services@haringey.gov.uk museum.services@haringey.gov.uk]<br>
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| [http://www.haringey.gov.uk/bruce-castle-museum Website]
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| :Bruce Castle is now a museum, holding the '''archives of the London Borough of Haringey''', and housing a permanent exhibition on the past, present and future of Haringey and its predecessor boroughs, and temporary displays on the history of the area.
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| '''Gunnersbury Park Museum'''<br>Gunnersbury Park<br>Popes Ln<br>London W3 8LQ UK<br>Telephone: 20 8992 1612<br>Email: [mailto:gunnersbury@ealing.gov.uk gunnersbury@ealing.gov.uk]<br>Website [http://www.hounslow.info/arts-culture/historic-houses-museums/gunnersbury-park-museum Website]
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| :The museum was opened in 1929. Since then it has collected a wide range of objects, paintings and photographs which reflect life in '''Ealing and Hounslow Boroughs''' from prehistory to the present day. It still continues to collect material to make sure that visitors in the future will be able to see how we lived today.
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| '''Hackney Museum'''<br>Technology and Learning Centre (Ground Floor)<br>1 Reading Lane<br>Hackney, London E8 1GQ UK<br>Telephone: 020 8356 3500<br>
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| Email: [mailto:hmuseum@hackney.gov.uk hmuseum@hackney.gov.uk]<br>[http://www.hackney.gov.uk/museum Website]
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| :Learn about the fascinating stories of people who have moved to Hackney and made it their home, from Anglo-Saxon settlers to early Victorian villas and recent refugees.
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| '''Harrow Museum'''<br>Headstone Manor<br>Pinner View<br>Harrow, London HA2 6PX UK<br>Telephone: 020 8863 6720<br>Email: [mailto:harrow.museum@harrow.gov.uk harrow.museum@harrow.gov.uk]<br>[http://www.harrow.gov.uk/info/200070/museums_and_galleries/190/harrow_museum Website]
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| :The four remarkable buildings which make up Harrow Museum are all located in the beautiful grounds of Headstone Manor, records of which date back to 825AD. All the buildings are listed by English Heritage, and the site as a whole is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
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| '''Islington Museum'''<br>245 St John Street<br>London EC1V 4NB UK<br>Telephone: 020 7527 2837<br>Email: [mailto:islington.museum@islington.gov.uk islington.museum@islington.gov.uk]<br>Website: [https://www.islington.gov.uk/libraries-arts-and-heritage/heritage/islington-museum Islington Museum]
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| :From free exhibitions, talks and events to vibrant learning programmes, explore Islington's past with us.
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| === Ragged School Museum ===
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| '''Ragged School Museum'''<br>46-50 Copperfield Road<br>London E3 4RR UK<br>Telephone: 20 8980 6405<br>Email: [mailto:pauline@raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk pauline@raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk]<br>
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| Website: [http://www.raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk Ragged School Museum]
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| :The Ragged School Museum is housed in a group of three canalside buildings which once formed the largest “ragged” or free school in London. The museum was founded to make the history of the Ragged Schools and the broader social history of the Victorian East End accessible to all. Within the original buildings, an authentic Victorian Classroom has been set up where each year some 16,000 children experience a school lesson as it would have been taught more than 100 years ago.
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| :We have also recreated a Victorian East End Kitchen from the 1900s, demonstrating what life would have been like in a simple, one-room home with no electricity or running water. The museum has several gallery areas, a reconstructed Victorian Classroom and a Victorian East End Kitchen displaying its own collection of historical objects, all designed for hands-on inspection. This is a museum where you can sit at the school desks, use the tin bath and experience what life was like for the Victorian poor of the East End of London.
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| === Vestry House Museum ===
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| '''Vestry House Museum'''<br>Vestry Road<br>Walthamstow, London E17 9NH UK<brTelephone: 020 8496 4391<br>
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| Email: [mailto:vhm.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk vhm.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk]<br>
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| Website: [https://vestryhousemuseum.org.uk/ Vestry House Museum]
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| :Vestry House Museum presents the history of Waltham Forest. Situated in Walthamstow Village, the building used to house the parish workhouse, and was later a police station and private home.
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| :It now contains themed displays capturing the unique heritage of the local area and includes the famous Bremer Car, a Victorian parlour, costume gallery and wonderful display of locally manufactured toys and games. A collection of 80,000 historic photographs from across the Borough is accessible to everyone by appointment. The beautiful volunteer-run garden is an oasis in which to relax and enjoy the arrival of spring.
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| === Victoria and Albert Museum ===
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| '''Victoria and Albert Museum'''<br>Cromwell Rd<br>Knightsbridge<br>London SW7 2RL UK<br>Telephone: 20 7942 2000<br>Email: [mailto:contact@vam.ac.uk contact@vam.ac.uk]<br>
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| Website: [https://www.vam.ac.uk Victoria and Albert Museum]
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| :The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
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| For a long list of London museums, go to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_London List of museums in London] in Wikipedia.
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