Islington Museum
Explore Islington’s stories of the people, the places and the ideas that created our borough. The Friends of Islington Museum support the museum in all its activities!
Get involved to learn about the borough’s hidden histories, explore our collections and learn about what makes Islington such a fascinating place to live, work, and play.
Islington Museum
Visit to explore Islington’s story through free exhibitions and programming.
Current Exhibition
Our Islington: Art of the Borough
Celebrating Islington’s artists, with chances to add your own creations. 12/09/24 – 12/01/24
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Islington Archives
Visit to do hands-on exploration of our archive of 100,000+ documents related to the borough.
Islington Heritage Projects
Learn about how we are conserving Islington’s heritage and bringing art to the borough.
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Finsbury Rifles, Away from the Western Front: 19th December to 27th December 1915
In Islington’s Gallipoli we blogged the 1/11th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (the Finsbury Rifles’) War Diary. We followed their often heartbreaking daily log, charting their experiences in Gallipoli. In December 1915 the Battalion left Gallipoli on HMT ALAUNIA. The next two years would see them visit Egypt, Palestine and Syria, experiencing new cultures, facing extreme conditions and…
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Islington’s Pride: an archive for the future
We are very excited to be launching a new exhibition at Islington Museum – Islington’s Pride: an archive for the future. Tuesday 31 January – 16 March 2017 Islington Museum, 245 St John Street, Open daily 10am – 5pm (closed Wednesday and Sunday) This exhibition takes a look at some of Islington’s LGBT+ heritage through…
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Firefighters in War
Today we were lucky to see some pictures of a children’s Christmas party at Clerkenwell Fire Station in December 1940. They were brought in by Jean Chapman, daughter of William Chapman, who served at Clerkenwell Fire Station during World War II. William Chapman was part of the Auxiliary Fire Service during the war, a vital…
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Islington’s Burning
London has had a turbulent and fiery history! It has been burned to the ground many times over in its 2000 year history and yet the London Fire Brigade (LFB) was only formed in 1866. From the destruction of St. John’s Priory, Clerkenwell in 1381, the impact of the Great Fire of London, to the…
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Visiting HMP Holloway
Roz Currie, Curator Holloway Prison closed this summer -the last prisoner left on 17th June 2016. Until May it was the largest women’s prison in Britain, holding around 450 inmates. Entrance to Holloway Prison just before it closed in June 2016 The prison was established in 1852 on Camden Road in Holloway, Islington, housing prisoners on remand,…
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