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welcome to the Somali Museum

Exploring history and heritage through creativity.

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EXPRESSION

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REPRESENTATION 

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NURTURE

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INCLUSIVE

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JOYFUL

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    Opening times

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  • Where You Visit
    Where You Visit

    65 Crutched Friars
    City of London

Welcome to the
Somali Museum

Exploring history and heritage through creativity.

Welcome to the Somali Museum

Holding space for ideas of the past, present and future can be in dynamic conversation.

Welcome to the Somali Museum

Culture is like a scent but to be fully appreciated it needs a container. The Somali Museum is such a container.

Upcoming Events
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Upcoming Events

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50% off exhibitions

Somali Written Language – 50 years on

15 August – 31 October 2020

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50% off exhibitions

Introducing Musse Xaji ibrahiim Galaal

15 August – 31 October 2020

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51% off exhibitions

Living with Somali Art

15 August – 31 October 2020

Culture Corner

Culture Corner

Somali Museum is a new virtual and physical container that tells the many varied stories of Somalia and Somali people in the UK and beyond. The Somali Museum radically reimagines what a ‘museum’ is and what it can do. Combining an art gallery, library, archive, museum, dance studio and cultural center into one space, the Somali Museum collapses traditional museum models and their colonial conception – becoming a home where stories of past, present and futures can grow and flourish. 

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Our team and Volunteers

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Art Collection

History of Barnes

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Venus
de Milo

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Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon

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Mona
Lisa

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L'Arlesienne:
Madame Ginoux

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Cuckoo
Clocks

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Support the Somali Museum

When the last remaining Somali café on Cable Street, a significant cultural landmark for our community, was converted into the now infamous Jack the Ripper Museum in 2015, Somali voices across London joined the roars of protest.

Now, five years later, the building has returned to the market. We are in discussions with the current owners and have been presented with a once-in-a-generation chance for the Somali community to reclaim a building central to our heritage and claim a significant cultural landmark for London’s Black history. We seek to convert the site into a physical hub for Numbi Arts’ long-awaited Somali Museum.

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