We’re shortlisted for a Museums Change Lives Awards 2022. Diana Foster is finalist for the Radical Changemaker Award.
NEWS
MAYDAY EVENT
Mick Lynch RMT leader is a local and national hero of the working classes. join us for this event on unions, class and more..
Poet patron
Robert Montgomery, well-known artist of word art installations, is collaboration with the People’s Museum is pure poetry – and he has kindly agreed to be our first patron!
‘Save Our Art!’ Open Day
A review of our ‘Save our Art’ day on April 1st at the People’s Museum – A Space for us: Somers Town
Saturday Open Day – see Somers Town’s stolen art!
Discover the secret history of Somers Town’s lost art on Saturday at our fun Open Day
Untold Stories Grant win for Somers Town!
We win a grant to restore working class heritage to Somers Town -Untold Stories
Stolen art back from the USA!
The People’s Museum has made the front page of the esteemed Camden New Journal with our story of retrieving the ‘missing’ 1930s Gilbert Bayes artwork: Stolen art back from the USA. The Somers Town People’s Museum – known as A Space For Us, and based in Phoenix Road – raised thousands of pounds to bid… Continue reading Stolen art back from the USA!
The 1980s!
The 1980s are back – at our museum this February – the month of strikes, protest and a book launch – Badgeland!
2022 to 2023
A review of our year…
Review 2022
What a year! 2022 was our first year as the People’s Museum in Somers Town at 52 Phoenix Road.
Book Launch: Black radicals
Author Theo Williams is giving a talk at the People’s Museum on the 7th December on how black radicals transformed socialist politics in Britain in the years before decolonisation. His book shows Making the Revolution Global shows how African and Caribbean activist-intellectuals, such as Amy Ashwood Garvey, C.L.R. James, Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah and George Padmore,… Continue reading Book Launch: Black radicals