Take a look at fascinating objects in London museums. As featured in the BBC series People's Museum.

As part of the Cultural Olympiad, Stories of the World: London, students can get museum work experience.

Teaching the Tudors, the Victorians or any other key historical era? Take your class to a period house and garden and your pupils will enjoy a fuller picture of what life was like then.

There's more to the East End than cockney rhyming slang. From contemporary art at the Whitechapel Gallery to the streets that inspired Dickens, take a walk round the diverse mix of old and new on this trail of locations and museums that can be seen in half a day.