ABSTRACT
The Museum of London Docklands in Canary Wharf, East London, is housed in a beautiful Grade-I-listed Georgian warehouse which was used to store goods from all over the world such as tea, rum and sugar. The museum opened in 2003 and was then called Museum in Docklands, but it is fully integrated with the Museum of London and the two museums operate as one. The museum’s Mudlarks children’s gallery has become part of many families’ regular routine. In 2016, 53% of visitors made repeat visits to the gallery and one family visited 36 times during one year! In 2016 the museum began a “family interventions” project – the creation of a series of gallery displays for families placed within the museum’s permanent galleries in order to make the museum’s collection and stories more accessible to this audience, some of which are specifically aimed at under-5s.
