The Museum

A Hive of Industry – until September 2011

  Quietly over the summer a new exhibition has been installed at the Museum at Gunnersbury. A fantastic array of products made in Hounslow and Ealing the two boroughs the museum serves, has been brought out of the stores and
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A History of the World in a Hundred Objects

With the success of its Radio 4 series, presented by Neil MacGregor of the British Museum, the BBC has encouraged both museums and individuals to submit significant objects for its website – you can see those from Gunnersbury Park Museum
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New Fashion Display at the Museum 2010-11

There is a new display of Victorian dress at Gunnersbury Park Museum which shows the range of clothes which a fashionable Victorian lady might wear in any one day. Nowadays it is fashionable to look casual and to wear the
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Museum activities 2 June 2010

Green Elephants and Mice! A family activity for children of all ages    Q: When is a milk carton not a milk carton? A: When it’s a green elephant, of course! Confused? Join one of these creative workshops and all
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Huge damage from repeated lead thefts

Over the period of the last three weeks, Gunnersbury has suffered four thefts of lead from the roof of the servants’ wing in the Large Mansion, three of them in the last four days. A couple of weekends ago lead
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Peter Crouch donation to the Museum!

England centre forward, Peter Crouch, has recently given one of his signed England shirts to Gunnersbury Park Museum. Peter is a local lad from Ealing and a former pupil of North Ealing and Drayton Manor Schools. At 6ft 7ins he
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Spencer Perceval Exhibition

  Spencer Perceval and All Saints Church New exhibition at Gunnersbury Park Museum,  October 3 2009 – Jan 3 2010 Spencer Perceval was the only Ealing resident to become Prime Minister (in 1809) and the only British Prime Minister to
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More floods in the Large Mansion museum stores

The structure of the Large Mansion is proving unable to cope with the heavy rainstorms that West London experienced in July. One major downpour caused water to flow down the walls of the Victorian Kitchens and the Housekeeper’s Still Room
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Volunteers needed, 20 September 2009

Vanda Foster, Gunnersbury’s curator, writes: We plan to open the Large Mansion, the Bath-house and the Temple at Gunnersbury on the Sunday of London Open House weekend. We are short of volunteers for the Temple. We are hoping some Gunnersbury
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