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The recreated Victorian street in the Sailortown gallery at London Museum Docklands

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London Museum · Smithfield

Sailortown: 1840–1850

Now showingPermanent collection·Free

A recreated Victorian Wapping street you can walk through, with the sights, sounds and smells of a 19th-century dockside neighbourhood and its pub.

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Image credits

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Sailortown: 1840–1850© Terry Graham / London Museum
Yuko Mohri: In ConcertCourtesy of Barbican Centre
Robert Ryman: The Real ThingCourtesy of Barbican Centre
Michael Landy: Future Ruins© Michael Landy. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Prudence Cuming Fine Art Photography.
London MuseumMatt Brown / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Barbican CentreJulian Herzog / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
Sir John Soane's MuseumSarah Smith / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Tate ModernAcabashi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Courtauld GalleryAnthony O'Neil / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

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