London Museum will showcase a permanent collection spanning 450,000 years of history. There will be seven million objects showcasing history from London’s 33 boroughs, including highlights such as Roman writing tablets, Banksy’s Piranhas artwork, Charles I’s execution vest, Anna Pavlova’s ‘Dying Swan’ dress and Emmeline Pankhurst’s hunger strike medal.
“This has been a long undertaking – not without its challenges but mostly filled with immense joy and hyper-creativity – and now we are counting down the days to welcome our first visitors,” says Sharon Ament, director of the London Museum. “At the beginning, we asked ourselves how to be the best museum for London, the answer is, to be London itself, in all its grit and glitter. We’ve done it with the very best: designers, historians, curators, builders, architects, artists, poets, writers, creators, to name a few, all are shapers of London. And the very best includes over one hundred thousand people who have contributed along the way.”
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