Secrets of the Thames exhibition | Opens April 2025 | London Museum …
A major exhibition, opening April 2025, that showcases fascinating finds from the River Thames foreshore and explores the role of mudlarks and mudlarking in uncovering thousands of years of history.
London Museum Docklands announces Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking …
Sep 16, 2024 · London Museum Docklands has today announced its next major exhibition Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s lost treasures (4 April 2025 – 1 March 2026). The first major exhibition on mudlarking, it will explore fascinating finds from the Thames foreshore, an internationally important archaeological site, and the role of mudlarks in ...
Mudlarks: Rescuing relics from the River Thames - London Museum
Sep 17, 2019 · From ancient bones and prehistoric blades to sacred relics and everyday oddities, mudlarks have found historical artefacts on the shores of the Thames.
Mudlarking in London: A Complete Guide for Visitors
Sep 29, 2023 · Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you can find that old stuff on the banks of the river, when the level drops due to the Thames’s natural tides; this is called mudlarking, but there’s more to it than a whimsical name.
'London's lost treasures' in mudlarking exhibition - BBC
Sep 16, 2024 · London Museum Docklands will showcase "London's lost treasures" from April 2025, featuring finds from the Thames foreshore. Other objects on display will include a Medieval gold ring, an...
Guided tours - Thames Explorer Trust
Scheduled walks for January, February and March are now live. In the Footsteps of Mudlarks – guided tours along the Thames foreshore. Book tickets for one of our two hour archaeology guided tours on London’s River Thames foreshore. See availability below and book our …
Secrets Of The Thames: Mudlarking London's Lost Treasures
Sep 16, 2024 · Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London's Lost Treasures will run from 4 April 2025-1 March 2026, sharing incredible finds from the Thames foreshore. Items on display include a Tudor wool...
Tides, tours and treasure: a guide to Thames mudlarking
Sep 7, 2023 · What is mudlarking? In the 18th and 19th centuries, Thames mudlarks were children and older people who scraped a living by finding pieces of wood, metal, coal, rope, canvas and other recyclables on the river’s tidal foreshore and selling them on.
The Most Wonderful Things Found On The Bed Of The Thames
Sep 20, 2022 · Mudlarkers are people who sift through the Thames mud looking for treasure. That might be literal treasure, like old coins, or simply a clay pipe from the Georgian era (a very common find —...
Five... historic things found in the River Thames
4 days ago · This edition’s a handful of treasures sifted from hundreds of millennia of riverine mud, in honour of the upcoming Secrets of the Thames exhibition at London Museum (it opens 4th April 2025). The exhibition’s dedicated to the history of mudlarking and the artefacts the Thames has cast up onto its shores, or sometimes had dredged up from its waters over the years, from the depths of London ...