Words by Francesca Perry
Home. It’s become even more critical, and interrogated, since the lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic confined many of us to domestic interiors. Issues of culture, lifestyle, inequality and health all weave into the consideration and exploration of what a home is and can be, across history and around the world. It is this stark relevance and importance that underpins the revival of London’s Geffrye Museum as the Museum of the Home, opening on Saturday 12 June, now with 80% more exhibition space so it can interrogate these issues more thoroughly – and immersively.
An £18.1m renovation project led by Wright & Wright Architects has seen not only the expansion of exhibition space in the museum – which is housed predominantly in Grade I-listed, 18