✨️We are really pleased that we have Jack Cornish joining us on our Human Rights Night walk on 20th June! ✨️ Jack is the author of The Lost Paths: Modern journeys along ancient footpaths and a walking legend. To walk with Jack & us on solstice sign up here museumofhomelessness.org/support/huma...

We are doing a lunchtime talk for the National Archives today www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-wi...

First rose of the season is out in the museum garden

Real Londoners know that a good community is bedrock to a decent society. Wonderful day with @jessicaturtle.bsky.social at @ourmoh.bsky.social lunch yesterday. Reconnected with #JakeCudsi editor of #ThePavementMagazine there - great catch up after so long #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

We've had this happen to people who come to MoH this week 😡

📣Tomorrow at 11am 📣 Event with Homeless Link and the UK Health and Security Agency on climate emergency and homelessness

Wednesday 7 May, 12,00 | online Working with records for social justice ▶️Jessica & Matthew Turtle, @ourmoh.bsky.social ▶️Sandra Shakespeare, Museum X ▶️Sean Cunningham, Head of Medieval and Early Modern Records, North America Indigenous Community work Register: shorturl.at/ZMY7A

The tendency to look at shoplifting only through a lense of policing when benefit cuts, wider poverty and cuts to health services play more of a causal role.

Real Londoners know you carry a certificate with you to prove it. Received The Freedom Of The City of London @cityoflondoncorp.bsky.social in #TheGuildhall yesterday. Surrounded by amazing friends. Huge thanks to Paparazzi & friend #ChrisHarvey, for Photo. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Homelessness in Postwar Britain: Do historians have anything useful to say? 22 May, Bloomsbury Speakers include Matt and Jess Turtle from the Museum of Homelessness, and others. Join us for the conversation. Book your place here homelessnessinpostwarbritain.eventbrite.co.uk @ourmoh.bsky.social

Absolutely banging day on the exhibition build for Criminal: an untold history of homelessness, resistance & survival. 2 tonne of hard-core down on the path, main space is being deinstalled and the archive room reordered. And a load of sausages / mac n cheese from our cook crew ❤️ #MoHcriminal

Sometimes you just got to hit the streets to draw attention to the sheer brutality of the crisis in this country. Homeless bloc at the National Housing Demo. Between us we run shelters, streets kitchens, emergency accomodation, community spaces. Our solidarity is our most potent weapon ✨️❤️

❗️NATIONAL HOUSING DEMO Crew meeting point at Bloomsbury Square Gardens 12pm. We will assemble with the trans+ bloc and make our way over to Soho Square together. We are forming the Homeless Bloc with many crews. It maybe a scrum so join us in Bloomsbury Sq if you want to march together

It was very special today to visit this physical & metaphorical oasis created for and by people experiencing #homelessness in #London. Planting, coffee, podiatry, haircuts, art, & a #library and #museum of stories. A place of community and safety. More to follow, I hope! ❤️🌸 @ourmoh.bsky.social

MoH cook crew made 3632 hot nutritious community meals last year what a bunch of legends ✨️ Its a big part of how we build community. Breaking bread together. ✨️

MoH director Matt Turtle will be speaking at this webinar from Homeless Link on 29th April alongside the UK Health Safety Agency SWEP: more than just temperature Its online & free. homeless.org.uk/events/swep-... We will be discussing our findings in our Severe Weather Emergency investigation

Another great #Camden #StreetsKitchen earlier along with the mighty #StreetVet 💚 For almost fourteen years we've been at the same spot every Wednesday & never missed a single shift! 🎊💪🎊 #GiveAshift #SolidarityNotCharity

📣 PSA from your friendly neighbourhood Museum of Homelessness: As a rule, posting pics of people living on the streets or in distress in the streets is not cool. Posting pics like that on socials to increase your reach or engagement is low behaviour. We wish we didn't have to say it. But we do.

🧵 Happy Friday from Hackney Night Shelter! 🌞Some recent news: one guest moved on positively to supported accommodation. He left these kind words "it was amazing staying here. everyone was respectful and welcoming"

Are you an emerging Disabled or Deaf producer trying into break into UK festival production work? Levelling The Field is a groundbreaking trainee programme, born at Glasto Festival and now changing lives at Mighty Hoopla & Brockwell Live. Deadline Sun 19 April ☀️ www.mightyhoopla.com/london/ltf

Museum of Homelessness and @streetskitchen.bsky.social will be forming a homeless bloc at the National Housing Demo next Saturday 18th. If you are homeless, organise or work in homelessness join us to march together

MoH exhibitions crew assembled yesterday to continue with the making of our next exhibition Criminal: an untold history of homelessness, resistance and survival. Workshop by Surfing Sofas and the Raft Up Crew Opens 21st May Stick it in ur diaries now

Walk with us from Brixton to Finsbury Park on the 20th June to raise funds for MoH! 20.06.26 This will be an unforgettable experience following in the footsteps of human rights giants and trace battles lost and won through 400 years of rights history. museumofhomelessness.org/support/huma...

"A museum isn't just a building, its a heartbeat. It's the stories we choose to honour and the people we choose to stand beside in the future we dare to imagine. " Beautiful words about Museum of Homelessness from Leon Eckford in conversation with Jessica Turtle on TooLight TooDark podcast ✨️❤️

Announcing our next exhibition: Criminal An untold story of homelessness, resistance and survival Opening 21st May for 10 weeks only museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-exh...

That’s all folks! 🎥 Another season of Film Club Fridays has come to an end. Over the Winter, we came together to watch the likes of Groundhog Day, The Mummy, Castaway and more! Hot food and snacks provided 🍰 Thank to our crew for curating a fantastic selection of films for our community ❤️

Shoutout to our volunteer cook crew who have kept us going throughout the winter and the start of spring 🌞 Here are some foody highlights from the past month or so. Thank you to our crack team of cooks for always cooking with organic and nutritious food which we can share with our community.

In solidarity with Ed-Kirton-Darling, @ekd.bsky.social , we are sharing his new report, Dying Homeless: Preventing Future Deaths. The report, to be presented to policymakers today, uncovers a huge rise in official reports concerning deaths amongst homeless or precariously housed people.

Thank you community members, volunteers and crew for another smashing Community Tuesday 💫 We planted, dug, ate, laughed, and created. See you next Tuesday!

'Lets be real we all know the drivers of homelessness, we all know what the solutions are. Its about community, safety, adequate resources and housing." Last week we were invited to give evidence at the London Assembly: museumofhomelessness.org/news/moh-giv...

On Friday 20th March we said goodbye to John Poole, a well loved community member. The hearse travelled from the museum through Finsbury Park to take John through the park he loved on his final journey. The service was very well attended and even Isha, John’s dog, joined us in the crematorium.

Read this 👇🏻 shout about it and share it. Homelessness sadly isn't going anywhere, any time soon. So everything must be done to ensure people can be safe in extreme weather . Local Authorities need to do better. Now.

Our latest investigation into homelessness and extreme weather has highlighted continued failings museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-fin...

Thank you for covering it @lgeraghty23.bsky.social 🙏😊

What a legend! @emilymartyn.bsky.social is our first ever marathon runner! Thank you Emily! And Philippa too ❤️🔥❤️🔥

The government are peeping us ahead of our release of our Severe Weather Emergency investigation findings next week. This is the only investigation & data set on how prepared English homelessness systems are for climate emergency. We run it bc we are obsessed with trying to make things better.

Number of people sleeping rough in England has reached another peak 💔 4793 single night snapshot last autumn and highest numbers since records began. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another week begins at our little museum: Community Tuesday 11-3pm with art, gardening, great food and general vibes. Also CLASH with a queer friendly sexual health drop in 1130 to 130 Film club Friday 2-5pm Wishing you all best vibes for the week, well as much as mid Febuary can muster ✨️❤️

Our solidarity fund with Haringey Welcome has provided deposit & rent today for another person experiencing homelessness. That's 25 households in Haringey our little fund has prevented from street homelessness now. Thank you to all who have supported ❤️✨️ Wishing everyone a great weekend.

Friday was our strategic away day. We are grateful to have a compassionate, talented and committed board and crew steering the charity through and making sure everything is a resourced as possible, so that the museum can be a safe harbour for the community. Museum of Homelessness is in good hands.

We are mad busy at the moment. Rough sleeping is at a massive high, its truly scary what's going on In addition its been raining for about 800 years People are really going through it If you are feeling it today here is a pic of Isha, one of the museum dogs as a timeline cleanse 💜

Real Londoners love a mash-up celebration. @adamrhemmings.bsky.social led an excellent #Wassail in orchard of @ourmoh.bsky.social to a large group (behind camera) which coincided with celebrating #BurnsNight yesterday. An enlightening talk before hand too #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Join us for our sober wassail today! Bless our fruit trees and set excellent vibes for 2026! We start with a talk on the history of wassailing by Adam Hemmings and then the wassail itself. If time allows, depending on how rambunctious the wassail is, we will have a pruning workshop too

next year is coming fast and so are our bills

We’re running our second Sober Wassail on the 25th January 1-3pm🌲 Come welcome in the new year and join us for hot toddies and to bless our fruit trees for a bountiful 2026. In the darkness, there can be renewal 🖤

Everything you need to know about Museum of Homelessness community cold weather shelter museumofhomelessness.org/news/everyth...

🗞 "We need a stepchange in how we deal with homelessness." Our codirector Jess Turtle wrote the New Years opinion piece for The Big Issue saying what is needed from politicians in 2026: www.bigissue.com/opinion/home...

And that was a fantastic Christmas Day 2025 at your friendly neighbourhood Museum of Homelessness. Gorgeous day and hectic. It was our best yet, with real heart and amazing vibes. Massive thanks and love to our crew and community what bunch of festive legends. 🥰🎄

On this day 5 years ago MoH crew were out on the deserted streets of the West End in the winter lockdown, checking in with people and organizing supplies. It was eerie with all the decorations left up even though the shops and businesses were shut.