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The Geffrye Museum in Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, east London, England, E2 is named after Sir Robert Geffrye, former Lord Mayor of London and Master of the Ironmongers' Company.
   The museum is devoted to British furniture, textiles, paintings and decorative arts. It shows the changing style of the English domestic interior in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day. The emphasis is on middle class interiors and furniture, rather than the royal and aristocratic commissions often seen in museums of the decorative arts.
   As well as the period rooms, the Museum is notable for its comprehensive reference library and furniture trade archive. Anyone with a personal or professional interest in furniture can apply to see these records.
   The museum and its period gardens including a walled herb garden are brought to life regularly through innovative programmes including seminars, workshops, drama and music. Exhibitions are mounted throughout the year, showing a wide variety of themes relating to the museum's displays. A traditional favourite is the "Christmas Past" exhibition, where period rooms are festively decorated to reflect 400 years of Christmas Traditions in English homes.
   Highlights of the collection:

Oriental and English porcelain, including dinner and tea services, figurines and vases
Tin-glazed wares, including decorative chargers, punch bowls, plates drug jars and other forms
Glass bottles, drinking glasses and other forms
Transfer-printed wares
Twentieth-century tablewares

The museum is set in the Grade I listed almshouses of the Ironmongers' Company, built in 1714 at the bequest of Geffrye. It also has a modern extension opened in 1998, including a restaurant, which is popular at lunchtime.
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