Community Exhibitions
Hackney Museum is all about the people of Hackney, past and present. We value our close links with local people, so we keep a special space in the Museum for community exhibitions. We call these Platform exhibitions because they give people a voice and a viewpoint, even though it may not be ours. Please get in touch if you are interested in working with us.
Homerton Voices
Mapping the Change
7 February to 26 May 2012
The last in our series of exhibitions based on the memories of local people. These range from a street party to celebrate the end of the first world war to life as a Pearly Queen in the East End. There are stories of working in the old Hackney Hospital and Lesney's Matchbox Factory.
"In the winter the River Lea used to flood and the canal overflowed and all that big field used to freeze, all where they're building the Olympics now. We used to skate all across there".Tom Williams
Photographer Colin O'Brien and travel writer Jane Eggington present their photographs and comments of some of the shopkeepers on Chatsworth Road that they recorded in 2010.
Photo credit: Woman in Chatsworth Road, Colin O'Brien.
Proud to be part of it!
Mapping the Change
1 March 2012 - ongoing
Young people's responses to the challenges brought about by the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Working with artists, young people from local schools and in family holiday workshops, have produced a colouful display of zoetrope drawings, a collection of time capsules and toy theatres with the residents of Hackney as the characters and their changing environment as the sets.
Hackney Museum's Olympic Corner
Mapping the Change
29 May to 1 October 2012
Keep up to date with the latest 2012 Olympic and Paralympic news.
Mapping the Change Exhibition
Mapping the Change
15 May 2012 to 22 September 2012
Recording the changes in Hackney in the lead up to 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Page updated: 24 Feb 2012
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