London Museum's new Smithfield Market home to open on 28 November

The London Museum's new Smithfield Market home will open on 28 November, with Banksy's piranhas, the UK's oldest hand-written document and part of the infamous Whitechapel fatberg all set to go on permanent display. The museum shut its previous London Wall site in December 2022 as part of a £437m project to move into the vast disused Victorian market building. As well as its displays, the museum will become a social space featuring day and night time activities like dinner clubs, storytelling events and club nights, while Thameslink trains will even travel through its basement galleries. The museum's director Sharon Ament said she hoped to "make Londoners proud". The venue, which claims to be the world's largest city museum, said it wanted "to honour the past and present of this major global capital". Smithfield's General Market building will be split into three different sections. First there will be a covered street which will act as the museum's entrance called Real Time, where data will be displayed capturing London in the moment. Visitors will then head beneath the domed market roof to Our Time where events and activities run with organisations like nightclub fabric and immers

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