Redbridge Museum

Redbridge Museum
Central Library
Clements Road
Ilford
Essex
IG1 1EA
England

Website

www.redbridge.gov.uk/museum

E-mail

Museum Manager

gerard.greene@redbridge.gov.uk

Telephone

020 8708 2317

Fax

020 8708 2431

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Redbridge Museum was opened in 2000. It is the community museum for the London Borough of Redbridge and explores the many different places, people and events in over 150,000 years of Redbridge history. The Museum also runs popular temporary exhibitions, events, and an education service.

Venue Type:

Museum, Gallery

 Opening hours

Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm
Saturday 10am-4pm

Closed Sunday, Monday, public holidays

 Admission charges

Admission free

The collections cover over 150,000 years of local history from prehistoric animals to recent developments. It is particularly evocative of the development of Ilford, Wanstead and Woodford from 1850s - 1950s.

Collection details

Agriculture, Archaeology, Archives, Coins and Medals, Costume and Textiles, Fine Art, Industry, Social History

Key artists and exhibits

  • Ilford Ltd, Sylvia Pankhurst, Winston Churchill, Claybury Hospital, WW2, Woodford Cycle Meet, Barnardos, Fairlop Fair, Uphall Iron Age camp, Howards Ltd, Kelvin Hughes, Harts House, Wanstead House and Park
Events details are listed below. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all. For events that don't have a specific date see the 'Resources' tab above.
Redbridge Museum

Redbridge In Maps an Exhibition

  • 22 October 2013 — 1 March 2014 *on now

Using a range of beautiful maps, take a journey through space and time
to discover over 2,000 years of local history in this Redbridge Museum exhibition.

From the earliest surveys of the 17th Century to detailed Victorian maps and modern phone apps, explore how Ilford, Wanstead and Woodford transformed from small country villages to thriving London suburbs.

Visitors can uncover wartime bomb damage maps and local area plans as well as maps that are works of art in their own right.

Complimented by archive photographs, museum objects, oral history and film, the exhibition invites you

22 October - 1 March 2014

Tue-Fri 10am-5pm and Sat 10am-4pm

www.redbridge.gov.uk/museum

Suitable for

  • 18+
  • Any age
  • 14-15
  • 7-10
  • 11-13
  • 16-17

Website

http://www.redbridge.gov.uk/museum

Redbridge Museum

First War World - can you help?

  • Until 31 January 2014 *on now
  • From 26 November 2013

Redbridge Museum is researching the impacts of the war on Redbridge and would like to hear from local people about their family stories.
The Museum would be particularly pleased to hear from residents with an African, Caribbean or south Asian background whose ancestors may have fought in the war.

Contact redbridge.museum@visionrcl.org.uk
or call 020 8708 2317

www.redbridge.gov.uk/museum

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