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Exhibition & Displays

Explore items displayed in exhibitions past and present at Hackney Museum.
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2009 Growing Up Black – a photographic exhibition by Dennis Morris

A unique and poignant collection of photographs depicting the West Indian

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2011 Our African Roots

Objects and stories from the museum collections featured in the temporary

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2015 - Hackney@50

50 objects, 50 stories, 50 years of Hackney

In 1965, the London

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2015 African Threads Hackney Style

This exhibition explored Hackney’s historic ties with Africa through fabric

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2016 - Sharing Our Stories: Jewish Stamford Hill, 1930s-1950s

For the last 350 years. Hackney has been home to a significant Jewish

2022 We Are All In This Together - Hackney During The Pandemic

2022 We Are All In This Together - Hackney During The Pandemic

The world as we know it changed in 2020. The global Covid-19 pandemic

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On display: 01 City limits

Hackney was once a group of quiet villages - an ideal place for wealthy

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On display: 02 Free speech

Hackney was once on the edge of London, outside the control of the City

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On display: 03 Safe haven

For hundreds of years Hackney has provided a refuge for people from other

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On display: 04 A place to find work

The chance to find a job has been one of the main reasons why people have come

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On display: 05 A place to do business

For centuries Hackney has been convenient place to settle and start a new

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On display: 06 A place to live

Hackney has traditionally been able to offer cheap housing to new arrivals.

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On display: 07 No choice

Some people found themselves in Hackney through no choice of their own. These

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On display: 08 Street level

Generations of settlers have left their mark on Hackney. Their influence can

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On display: 09 A sense of community

Arriving in a new place with a different culture and language can be difficult

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On display: 10 Moving on

This has always been a mobile population. Roma, gypsys and travellers were

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On Display: Highlights

Explore some of the highlights in our permanent display.

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