Castle Learning Center. Period Rooms & Gardens. A living room in 1935 - photography Chris Ridley Visitors to the Geffrye can view our permanent display of eleven period rooms which span approximately 400 years from around 1600 to the present day.
There is also a walled herb garden and a series of four period gardens, chronologically arranged to reflect the museum's period rooms, which can be visited between 1 April and 31 October. To the front of the museum there is a large garden facing onto Kingsland Road, which has recently been refurbished. Additionally, there is a restored 18th-century almshouse, open to visitors on selected days, which has been taken back to its original condition and provides a glimpse into the lives of London's poor and elderly in the 1780s and 1880s.