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Exposiciones actuales:
Sitting the Light Fantastic: an installation by Kei Ito - The Geffrye Museum has been selected to take part in museumaker, a prestigious, national project involving 16 museums across the country. Outstanding contemporary makers have been chosen to create exceptional new commissions for each partner museum in response to its site and heritage collections. A participatory project, involving the public, is an integral element in each programme. Kei Ito's practice links together costume design for dance and theatre productions, fashion and accessories design, and textile and costume exhibitions for galleries. As part of museumaker she will be creating a parade of chairs and lamps made from woven fibre optics. Patterns influenced by various pieces within the Geffrye Museum Collection will be woven into the fibre optic designs. Launched in September the installation will create a magical, fairy tale landscape within the front garden. Until Autumn.
At Home with the World - As we prepare to welcome the world to London in 2012, we ask how ‘English’ are our homes? At Home with the World will highlight domestic objects which have come from overseas or been influenced by other cultures to tell a fascinating story about how many of the designs, decorations, materials and social customs with which we are familiar in our homes today and which we consider to be ‘English’, might have originated elsewhere. We will encourage visitors to engage in a dialogue about their homes and to think about them afresh, exploring how other cultures have shaped our personal spaces, our ideas about what makes a home and about the way we live. From Tuesday 20 March until Sunday 9 September .Opening of Refurbished Period Rooms: At Home in London, 1600 - 1800 -
A major programme of refurbishment reached completion and over half of the Geffrye’s galleries re-opened to the public, completely re-thought and re-presented. The At Home project includes four brand new period rooms, dated 1630, 1695, 1745 and 1790, a series of new interpretive galleries, two new audio guides and a specially devised education and events programme.
