The Ragged School Museum

Housed in what was once London's biggest Ragged School, this popular, family-friendly museum welcomes people of all ages to taste a slice of Victorian life. Located beside the Regent's Canal
the Museum offers, through roleplay, hands-on exhibits and talks, an authentic and memorable experience of the poor of the East End a century ago.

The museum was founded to make the history of the Ragged Schools and the broader social history of the East End accessible to all. Within the original buildings, an authentic Victorian Classroom has been set up where each year some 14,000 children experience a school lesson as it would have been taught more than 100 years ago.

The museum has also recreated a Victorian East End Kitchen from the 1900s, where younger children listen to stories and join in rhymes and games of the period.

The museum has several gallery areas, a reconstructed Victorian Classroom and a Victorian East End Kitchen displaying its own collection of historical artefacts, 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.

Special exhibitions are presented throughout the year about the unique cultural history of the area.

46-50 Copperfield Road, London E3 4RR.

Tel: 020 8980 6405

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