Discover Redbridge - What are you looking for?

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Redbridge

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The Fan Museum

12 Crooms Hill London, SE10 8ER

Open to the public since 1991, The Fan Museum is the only organisation of its kind devoted entirely to the history, culture and craft of the fan. Our award-winning Museum is small-scale, Independent, and accredited by Arts Council England. Situated within the World Heritage Site of Greenwich, London, a pair of beautifully restored Grade II* Listed early Georgian period townhouses are the perfect setting for our extraordinary collections.

020 8305 1441

Eastbury Manor House

Eastbury Manor House Eastbury Square Barking Essex, IG11 9SN

The impressive Eastbury Manor House, owned by the National Trust, was built by Clement Sysley, a rich Essex merchant, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and completed around 1573. The house, which stands in 1.5 acres of peaceful walled garden, contains early 17th-century wall-paintings depicting fishing scenes and in the former Great Chamber there is a wonderful cityscape. Fascinating features include exposed timbers in the attic, a fine original spiral oak staircase in turret, soaring chimneys and cobbled courtyard. The building has been developed as an arts heritage and community resource where school visits take place.

Islington Museum

245 St John St London, EC1V 4NB

Free-to-visit museum and history centre hosting temporary exhibitions and children's events.

020 7527 2837

Abbey Mills Pumping Station

Abbey Lane Stratford London, E15 2RW

Abbey Mills Pumping Station is also known as "The Cathedral of Sewage", partly because of it's looks, and partly because the building is shaped like a cross. The Pumping Station stands next to the Northern Outfall Sewer, which was built in the 1860's to carry away the increasing amount of sewage produced in London. The building has some great historical and industrial importance.

020 8430 2000

Whitechapel Gallery

Whitechapel Gallery 77-82 Whitechapel High Street London, E1 7QX

The Whitechapel Gallery’s beautiful historic building is a house of adventure, full of great art and ideas from around the corner and around the world. When you walk through our doors you follow the footsteps of modern masters such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Hannah Höch and pioneering contemporaries such as Zarina Bhimji, William Kentridge and Cindy Sherman, all of whom premiered at the Whitechapel Gallery. Driven by a century-long commitment to art education, we create a participatory experience of art for local schools, communities, families and young people. With free exhibitions, collection displays, film screenings, public debates and a world-class bookshop and restaurant, the Whitechapel Gallery is one of the UK’s great cultural hubs.

020 7522 7888

Laura I. Art Gallery

Skippier Court Abbey Road Barking , IG1 1NN

Their programmes are carefully designed to deal with issues of the day by bringing awareness and creating possibilities to make changes for people who are feeling isolated, misunderstood or marginalised by society. The gallery organises events and a space where everyone benefits from an aura of inclusivity thus creating a sense of belonging, which brings with it a strong sense of personal advancement.

Matt's Gallery

92 Webster Road London , SE16 4DF

Matt’s Gallery is one of the UK’s leading contemporary art galleries, supporting the making of new and innovative work since its foundation more than 40 years ago in 1979.

The Approach Gallery

The Approach 1st Floor 47 Approach Road, E2 9LY

The gallery was founded in 1997 by Jake Miller, along with artists Damien Meade, Ana Genoves and others . One of the gallery's original objectives was to offer solo exhibitions to London-based artists at the start of their careers - several of whom have gone on to achieve international success.

020 8983 3878

Royal Observatory

Greenwich Royal Park London, SE10 8XJ

The Royal Observatory in Greenwich was originally founded in 1675 to observe and record the movement of heavenly bodies in an attempt to solve the longitude problem by the lunar distance method. The building was designed by Wren and the work was overseen by Hooke. The Observatory was built on the highest ground in Greenwich Park, and had rooms especially for the appointed astronomer, John Flamsteed and his assistant. Flamsteed worked on the project for over forty years and his star catalogue was published following his death in 1725.

0181 858 4422

The Viktor Wynd Museum

11 Mare St Cambridge Heath Rd London, E8 4RP

Tiny museum showcasing a unique collection of objects, including unusual taxidermy & occult artwork.

02085335297