The London Museum Docklands covers the history of trade along the Thames across three cavernous floors. There was much more to see than I expected so I had to rush through the modern history at the end, don’t make my mistake!
The displays start with the early history and development of the docks, before an extensive
and really quite affecting look at the role of the docks in the slave trade, with
painful looks at sugar plantations juxtaposed with the porcelain teacups of the then-new middle classes.
The final floor covers the modern history of the docks, it felt a bit strange seeing the attempts to stop the LDDC being venerated amidst the resulting skyscrapers but hey ho.
The information available is pitched well, some of it might be a bit dense for small children but
you don’t feel like you’re being talked down to and there are some interactive exhibits.
