Qualla: London Museum https://qualla.com/london-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/london-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: London Museum https://qualla.com/london-museum London Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/london-museum/ Photo credit Lord Belbury, CC BY-SA 4.0. On display in the museum, until recently, was a glass case containing a dried, blackish slab roughly the size of a paperback book. It was a piece of the Whitechapel fatberg — a solid 130-ton mass of cooking grease, wet wipes, and sanitary products that Thames Water engineers spent three weeks removing from a sewer in September 2017. After the public exhibition ended, the chunk was placed in a freezer, where fans could watch it through a live webcam around the clock. The institution that displayed it — known from 1976 to 2024 as the Museum of London, and as the London Museum from July 2024 onwards — is the world's largest urban history museum. It collects what London actually is. The fatberg fits.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/london-museum-wp/gcpv-london-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full London Museum: Two Museums That Became One https://qualla.com/london-museum/ Photo credit Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Guildhall Museum was founded by the City of London Corporation in 1826 when someone gave it a Roman mosaic dug up on Tower Street. The London Museum was founded in 1911 by Viscount Esher and the politician Lewis Harcourt, opening to the public on 8 April 1912 in the State Apa...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/london-museum-wp/gcpv-london-museum-two-museums-that-became-one.mp3 0:06 2 full London Museum: What's in the Storerooms https://qualla.com/london-museum/ Photo credit Steve Cadman from London, U.K., CC BY-SA 2.0. The collection includes around 7 million objects covering ten thousand years of London life. Flint handaxes from the prehistoric Thames Valley. The Havering Hoard — the largest Bronze Age hoard ever found in London, 453 bronze objects from between 900 and 800 BCE, broken or damag...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/london-museum-wp/gcpv-london-museum-whats-in-the-storerooms.mp3 0:06 3 full London Museum: The Roman Temple That Became a Tourist Attraction https://qualla.com/london-museum/ Photo credit AlanFord, Public domain. In September 1954, workers excavating a bombed-out site in the City of London hit something that wasn't supposed to be there. It turned out to be a Roman temple to Mithras, the bull-slaying mystery god worshipped across the Roman Empire, particularly by soldiers. The discovery ca...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/london-museum-wp/gcpv-london-museum-the-roman-temple-that-became-a-tourist-attraction.mp3 0:06 4 full London Museum: Contemporary Collecting https://qualla.com/london-museum/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. The museum doesn't stop at history; it actively collects the present. During the 2012 London Olympics, it gathered tweets using the hashtag #citizencurators. In 2016 it tried to buy one of Boris Johnson's controversial water-cannon trucks (he had bought three for £218,000 from th...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/london-museum-wp/gcpv-london-museum-contemporary-collecting.mp3 0:06 5 full London Museum: The Move to Smithfield https://qualla.com/london-museum/ Photo credit Eluveitie, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 4 December 2022, the museum closed its London Wall site permanently after 46 years. The Powell and Moya building had problems — director Sharon Ament called it 'a failing building with problematic entrances and a location which is difficult to find.' The new site, opening in 2...

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