Explore Gardens
View of the period gardens - photography M Williams
Visitors to the Geffrye can explore the museum's walled herb garden which opened in 1992, and a sequence of period garden rooms highlighting the key styles of middle-class town gardens for the past four centuries, which opened in April 1999. Timed to coincide with the opening of the Geffrye's new extension, these garden spaces are chronologically arranged to reflect the museum's main display of period rooms.
The 'outdoor rooms' are based on research into the design and planting of urban middle-class gardens from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Evidence for these gardens is scarce but has been pieced together from drawings, prints, maps, garden plans, planting lists, diaries and literature from each period. Particular attention has been paid to achieving accuracy in plant histories, planting relationships and the layout within beds. Please note that the gardens are open to visitors between 1 April and 30 October this year.
Follow the left hand menu to find out more about each of the period rooms and gardens or click here to explore the individual 360 views and the Virtual Tour.
