previously<\/a> called the Museum of London. Described as \u201cone of Europe’s largest cultural infrastructure projects\u201d, the new complex is designed by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan in partnership with the conservation architects Julian Harrap.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/49b283555a88b3dd4fcd939ba79231c85ee75fa0-600x375.jpg\"\/)
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A visualisation of the permanent Past Time galleries, located below ground on Roman street level<\/p>\n
\u00a9 Secchi Smith. Courtesy London Museum<\/p>\n
The site will open in two stages: the formerly derelict Victorian General Market dating from the 1880s, home to the\u00a0museum\u2019s permanent galleries, will open in November while the 1960s Poultry Market, which houses the\u00a0museum\u2019s learning centre, temporary exhibition spaces and collection stores, will launch in 2028. The adjacent buildings will be connected by an enclosed avenue.<\/p>\n
The ground floor of the General Market space will house Our Time, a hub for performances, talks and festivals. Permanent galleries will be located in an underground space where \u201ccontent will range from Roman relics to dress, vehicles to art and photography, and include the exquisite Cheapside Hoard presented in the Goldsmiths\u2019 Gallery,\u201d says a statement. Meanwhile a live train line will run alongside the subterranean gallery space, which was once a vast goods depot for the Great Northern Railway.<\/p>\n
One of Banksy\u2019s famed animal-themed works\u2014a police sentry box emblazoned with a shoal of piranhas\u2014will go on show<\/a> at the new museum, along with the diving trunks worn by Tom Daley at the 2012 London Olympics and the silk vest worn by Charles I when he was beheaded in 1649.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new London Museum based at the historic Smithfield market in Farringdon\u2014 one of the biggest capital museum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1044926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,132371,4842,34774,16,15],"class_list":["post-1044925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-london-museum","tag-museums-heritage","tag-openings","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116799318605107747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}