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Founded in 1914, the Geffrye Museum is a museum specialising in the history of the English domestic interior.〔Rhonda Siddall, '5 family days out in London this winter', in ''The Times'' (London newspaper), 15 December 2008〕 Named after Sir Robert Geffrye, a former Lord Mayor of London and Master of the Ironmongers' Company, it is located on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch, London. The main body of the museum is housed in the Grade I-listed almshouses of the Ironmongers' Company, built in 1714 thanks to a bequest by Geffrye.〔Paula Deitz, 'A Furnished Time Machine', in ''The New York Times,'' 13 March 1988〕 The museum was extended in 1998 with an innovative yet architecturally sympathetic new wing designed by Branson Coates Architects.〔Ian McCurrach, 'Days Out: The Geffrye Museum, Shoreditch, London' in ''The Independent'' (London newspaper), 15 October 2006〕 The museum shows the changing style of the English domestic interior in a series of eleven displayed period rooms from 1600 to the present day. The emphasis is on the furnishings, pictures, and ornaments of the urban middle classes of London.〔Paula Deitz, 'A Furnished Time Machine', in ''The New York Times'', 13 March 1988〕 The museum routinely holds exhibitions and seminars, both in the museum itself and in its period gardens. An annual event is the Christmas Past exhibition, which sees rooms of each period decorated as they would have been at Christmas.〔K. C. Summers, 'Christmas in London', in ''The Washington Post'' (US newspaper), 9 October 2008〕 In addition, the museum has two 1780 and 1880 almshouse rooms which are open to the public on specific days, showing part of the building in its original guise as accommodation for the deserving poor.〔Paula Deitz, 'A Furnished Time Machine', in ''The New York Times,'' 13 March 1988〕 In 2011 the Geffrye Museum secured funding of £13.2million from the Heritage Lottery Fund to build an extension which is due to open in 2015.〔Julia Gregory, 'Shoreditch museum celebrates £500,000 building grant' in ''The Hackney Gazette'' (London newspaper), 11 May 2011〕 ==Transport connections== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geffrye Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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