Victorian themed museums/exhibitions in SE or London

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Looking for something along the lines of the York Castle Museum or Ironbridge Blists hill to take dc(9 and 6) to in South East as ds is studying them at school. Dickens' World is a possibility but anything else around or in London perhaps?

The Geffrye Museum in Dalston and the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood are both good.
For London's industrial heritage try the Museum of London in Docklands and of course the Museum of London itself
Maritime Museum in Greenwich is strong on the tea trade at that period
Costumes - wonderful gallery at the V & A
Also the Horniman Museum, while reinventing itself very successfully for the modern era, has some interesting galleries of stuffed animals and artefacts from other cultures that clearly reflect its Victorian Collector/Colonial origins

ah Museum of London was a definite possibilty anyway, not sure ds will go for costumes at v and a! I loathe stuffed animals tbh there used to be a museum dedicated to them in Brighton near my school, gave me the willies when I used to pass by it for games !

I'd really recommend Docklands too though - has a smell-o-rama Docks lanes thing to walk through which ds loved the last time we were there

dh will be doing a London trip with them so will mention it. Looks like M of L 's more recent galleries are shut but they do have a Great Fire exhibit which dd is about to study . Will have a look at Docklands one website ....

Dickens' World is by all accounts terrifyingly crap. There is the Dickens House Museum in London, although not sure how much that would appeal to children.

Possibly also Carlyle's House? Very Victorian interior.

Victorian sections at National Portrait Gallery?

Oh, and some good stuff on more rural Victorian life in the Museum of Kent Life.

Also Quex House has a special exhibition about Victorian life on the estate on until 30 October, if you can make it in the next few days.