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Contents

This year we are presenting our Annual Review digitally. You can download a printable PDF of the entire report by clicking the link at the top of the page. Page 3 /40

Part 1 Welcome

We are here 2009/10 saw visitor numbers reach 275,434 at the and 95,469 at the Museum Look out for additional highlights through the year of London Docklands on our virtual timeline… Page 4 /40

Part 1 Welcome Chairman’s Introduction Bearing in mind the continued closure of the lower galleries, this is an impressive result. The Museum of London Docklands saw 95,469 visitors; not as many as the record numbers who came to see last year’s Jack the Ripper exhibition, but still a strong result.

Museum of London Archaeology has Michael Cassidy CBE continued to face tough economic Chairman conditions this year, but its focus on consolidation and a scaleable business It has been exciting to watch this ambitious model have stood it in good stead. project reach fruition. Everyone has It achieved a turnover of £7.1m for the been working under pressure, and the year – £1.8m better than planned. Museum of London’s staff have shown great enthusiasm, skill and professionalism I would like to thank all the Governors in completing such an enormous task. for their support to the Board and its Fundraising carried on throughout, committees. My thanks in particular to and we are nearing our target of £20.5m. Lesley Knox, Sir Michael Oliver, Dr Mark The Galleries of Modern London open Patton, Patrick Roney and Geoffrey Wilson to the public in May 2010. for their valuable contributions to the Board, and whose terms have ended. Meanwhile, another major milestone I am delighted to welcome the Rt. Hon. was reached in September 2009 when the Paul Boateng, Blondel Cluff, Rosemary new Clore Learning Centre was officially Ewles, Andrew Macdonald, and Eric opened. The Museum has set new Reynolds to the Board. We are also deeply standards of excellence in the sector with grateful to the Secretary of State for “This has been a memorable and busy year this state-of-the-art facility. Its modern, Culture, Media and Sport, the City of flexible learning spaces, theatre and London, and the for the Museum of London, as it put its e-learning studio were an immediate for their support. hit with learners of all ages, attracting finishing touches to the splendid new 30,000 users in the first six months. On behalf of all the Governors, Over 96,000 pupils took part in on-site I congratulate the Director and all of Galleries of Modern London.” or outreach learning visits over the year the Museum of London’s staff on their (exceeding targets), and 138,829 people impressive achievement this year in of all ages took part in learning delivering the new Galleries of Modern programmes overall. London, and I look forward to another successful year. Visitor numbers have in fact been strong across the board: we welcomed 275,434 people to the Museum of London, which is a 3% increase on the previous year. Page 5 /40

Part 1 Welcome Director’s Introduction

Professor Jack Lohman Director

Looking back on the year under review, the words that best sum it up are ‘total transformation’.

Our flagship project – the Galleries of Modern London – has transformed the Museum of London. It has absorbed about half of our staff for the past four years, and 2009/10 was the year we all threw ourselves into the last leg of that journey. The Galleries of Modern London, which open to the public in May 2010, have physically transformed the Museum with their exciting new spaces and all the objects in them, and they have delivered 1 April 2009 a new narrative for modern London. Living Ancestors display opens at the Museum The process of creating our new Museum of London Docklands has transformed us as an organisation too. It has instigated a cultural change, breaking down barriers between departments. People from all parts of the Museum have come together, working strategically to make this once-in-a-lifetime project a success. That cultural change has improved our performance, and the evidence speaks for itself: 2009/10 saw the first groups of staff complete Certificates and Diplomas in Management, and the completion of a second Investors in People diagnostic highlighted our progress as an institution. Page 6 /40

Part 1 Welcome

Director continued… The London 2012 Olympic Games are only two years away, and the Museum We have worked on the fabric of our of London – as the lead partner in the building too, with structural improvements Renaissance-funded London Museums Hub including new roofs and updated security – will be playing a major part in delivering and fire systems. But none of this has Stories of the World, the youth-focused distracted us from continuing to operate project which is one of the major outputs as a museum, and in spite of the lower of the Cultural Olympiad. galleries being closed, our visitor numbers continued to increase. There have also We already have an important cultural been some fascinating additions to our role as a standalone visitor attraction, collection, including an exquisite Roman but our Renaissance funding is allowing us millefiori dish made up of hundreds to play a much wider cultural role. Through of indented glass petals, found during our delivery of Stories of the World, we are excavations in Prescot Street, . creating links with smaller museums across Museum of London Archaeology has also the capital and increasing Londoners’ had a successful year continually generating access to collections and scholarship. new knowledge and understanding of the These relationships create opportunities capital’s archaeological heritage. to share learning, for the benefit of the whole museum sector. None of our exciting capital works would have been possible without the generous The economic climate is more challenging help of our supporters. We have raised now than it was four years ago but our almost £20m over four years thanks to the process of modernisation carries on; the Heritage Lottery Fund, the , next goal is to deliver a spectacular new the DCMS and great philanthropic help Roman Gallery by 2014. More on that in from the Harcourt Group and other friends the coming years; for now, I would like to and donors. thank our Chairman, Michael Cassidy CBE, the Board of Governors and all our staff, Meanwhile, we have worked hard to volunteers and supporters for their help build up our own entrepreneurial activities during a landmark year for the Museum too. Developing the commercial side of London. of the Museum – through our re-launched Bar & Kitchen restaurant by benugo, for instance – will bring in valuable additional revenue while also improving the visitor experience. New retail products and refurbished corporate hire facilities are all part of this greater commercial drive. Page 7 /40

Part 2 A Modern Museum

We are here The Museum of London entered the final phase of its total transformation in 2009/10 Page 8 /40

Part 2 A Modern Museum

Invested in developing the new Galleries of Modern London and Clore Learning Centre

Expanding Galleries

This was the year in which everyone Meanwhile, conservators were busy came together to work towards a major preparing 7000 items, ranging from milestone: completing the £20.5m costumes to vehicles, paintings and Galleries of Modern London. jewellery. Display texts were written, and cases prepared. Work progressed on the Our new galleries are a major turning point suspended elliptical LED curtain and nine in the Museum’s history, paving the way plasma screens that form the centrepiece for our future work and building a sense of the Sackler Hall, and on LDN24, a film of real excitement about London ahead of specially commissioned for the curtain the 2012 Olympics. Divided into Expanding by multimedia artists The Light Surgeons, City, People’s City and World City, the inspired by the 24-hour cycle of galleries bring to life the story of modern London life. London, from the Great Fire of 1666 right up to the present. Installation began in earnest in 2010, and by March we were into a final push. Media It has been thrilling to see our new interest had been building up throughout galleries gradually take shape over the this time, thanks to a long lead campaign course of the year. After the structural which started back in the autumn of 2009. building work was completed in the spring of 2009, exhibition construction could The new Galleries of Modern London begin. Some key pieces – the ornate Art launched to great acclaim in May, soon Deco lift from , the Lyons Corner after the end of this reporting period. £20 5m House and the Wellclose Prison cell – began It was an intensive but memorable year, to be put into place. In November, the Lord and we are proud to have delivered a Mayor’s Coach was carefully positioned – revitalised, inspirational Museum worthy on its specially designed skates – into its of one of the greatest cities in the world. new home in the City Gallery. Page 9 /40

Part 2 A Modern Museum

Clore Learning Centre

On 15 September 2009, Dame Vivien Duffield – chair of the Clore Duffield Foundation – cut the ribbon for our 13 May 2009 Clore Learning Centre. Flashback commission by Tom Hunter is unveiled This new learning centre (supported by the at the Museum of London Clore Duffield Foundation, the Heritage Lottery Fund, and others) places learning right at the heart of the Museum. Its range of facilities – the 230-seat Weston Theatre, flexible learning spaces, a seminar room and fully equipped e-learning studio – allow learners to engage with the Museum in exciting new ways, and to really get the most out of our collections.

Visits are free for schools, and we have developed sessions to tie in with the evolving National Curriculum. But we are committed to life-long learning, and the Clore Learning Centre is open to everyone, of any age. In its first two weeks alone, the centre had already been used by the full spectrum of visitors – under-5s, school groups, adult learners, community groups and families – with 96.4% of them rating the facility as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’. Page 10 /40

Part 2 A Modern Museum

12 June 2009 Forward to Freedom exhibition on Improved visitor experience the Anti-Apartheid Movement opens The Galleries of Modern London and Clore Learning Centre are our headline news, but the Museum of London has been transformed in other ways too.

In January, we opened the new War, Fire and Plague gallery on the ground floor, tracing the period from the accession of in 1558 up to the Great Fire of 1666, a time when London was expanding rapidly. The new gallery sets the scene of this transformation into a modern, global city and leads visitors up to the new Galleries of Modern London. It includes a redesigned Great Fire audiovisual display, and its displays feature Delftware discovered in Borough High Street only weeks before the gallery opened.

The Central Courtyard, situated alongside the Sackler Hall, has been reinvented as a green outside space, the rotunda area has been ‘green roofed’ and the atrium glazing will be replaced as part of an ongoing project to replace our roofs and improve our overall sustainability.

London Wall Bar & Kitchen is our new fully licensed benugo bar and restaurant, and we have also recruited and trained a new team of front-of-house visitor hosts (dressed in our refreshed brand colours) to give visitors the best possible first impression of the new Museum of London. Page 11 /40

Part 2 A Modern Museum

27 July 2009 Looking ahead Museum becomes We have achieved a great deal this year, official stockist of Olympic but we are already looking to our next pins including limited goals. Now that the Galleries of Modern ‘3 Years To Go’ pin London are ready to launch, major exhibitions will be back on the agenda beginning with ‘Pirates: The Captain Kidd Story’ at the Museum of London Docklands in May 2011, and we look forward to raising our profile further through our involvement with cultural activities around the London Olympic Games in 2012. Work has also begun on planning our next major project: a new Roman Gallery, currently scheduled to open in 2014. Page 12 /40

Part 3 Museum of London Archaeology

We are here Museum of London Archaeology achieved £7.1m turnover during 2009/10 Page 13 /40

Part 3 Museum of London Archaeology

Museum of London Archaeology

Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) continued to face a difficult economic climate this year. Nevertheless, it still achieved a turnover of £7.1m during 2009/10, which is £1.8m more than predicted, and the year was profitable.

MOLA won important contracts on public infrastructure projects such as Thameslink and Crossrail, and business from new leads accounted for nearly £0.4m. The first phase of the Thames Tideway tunnel was an important new contract win.

Confidence in the private sector remains fragile but rising property prices in both the commercial and residential sectors 5 August 2009 have led to a number of projects being Loss and Liberty display tentatively restarted. In the coming year, opens in the London, MOLA will be starting a number of new Sugar & Slavery gallery ventures to expand its market share outside of London. Page 14 /40

Part 3 Museum of London Archaeology

Discoveries Publications

Despite the recession, MOLA undertook MOLA’s specialist research and publishing a number of significant fieldwork projects. teams continued to be busy throughout Work at the new Thameslink project in the the year with the publication of 7 books area uncovered some and more than 25 journal articles. remarkable finds, including a chunk of Roman wall that had fallen face down, preserving The Rose and the Globe – playhouses different layers of plaster decoration. of Shakespeare’s , : excavations 1988–91 was a high-profile The site also unearthed three large publication, detailing the excavation of two decorated ceramic bowls dating from the of the famous playhouses of . 1660s-70s, of the type known as Delftware It was officially launched with an evening but most likely made locally to Borough reception at the , hosted in one of Southwark’s many potteries. jointly by MOLA and . The bowls have since gone on display at the Museum of London. Other notable publications included Great Houses of Medieval and Tudor Work at Cannon Place uncovered more Southwark and , Roman of one of London’s most important Roman Southwark Settlement and Economy, sites, previously (but probably erroneously) and Excavations at Mucking: Volume 3, identified as the Governor’s Palace. The The Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. new work will allow MOLA to revisit and reinterpret works carried out in the 1960s.

In central London’s Marshall Street, MOLA excavated a post-medieval burial ground with more than 2300 burial sites. And at Convoy’s Wharf, trenches were dug across the wharf to find the 16th- to 19th-century victualling yard that formerly lay on the site. This work identified the foundations of some surviving buildings and the site of some very large docks that had been backfilled. Page 15 /40

Part 4 Exhibitions and Programmes

We are here We welcomed visitors to over 150 events ranging from comedy nights to a Great Museum Marathon Page 16 /40

Part 4 Exhibitions and Programmes

Exhibitions

Our exhibitions are enhanced with events Museum of London Docklands and community programmes, encouraging visitors to engage with and shape the way The London, Sugar & Slavery gallery we present London’s stories. continued a programme of collaborative displays this year. In Living Ancestors Museum of London (1 April – 31 July), London-based artist Gabrielle Le Roux’s portraits paid tribute to Photographer Tom Hunter playfully the centenarian women of the Caribbean mismatched people and their times in a island of Dominica, celebrating their series of photographic portraits (Flashback, history and longevity. 13 May 2009 – 23 May 2010), with one portrait featuring an 18th-century lady of This was followed by Loss and Liberty the manor posing on a 1950s Vespa. The (5 August – 11 January) in which offenders photos were commissioned to celebrate at Wandsworth Prison drew on the the new Galleries of Modern London, gallery’s subject matter to create an and were the first in an ongoing series of intensely personal display of ceramics and artists’ commissions in the Entrance Hall. poems. Post Abolition: Commemorative Stamps (18 January – 30 June) displayed Forward to Freedom (12 June – 6 stamp designs from the 1930s onwards, September) marked the 50th anniversary of each marking the end of slavery within the Anti-Apartheid Movement, and looked a tiny work of art. It included new stamps back at some landmark campaigns from created by students from Barnet College as this extraordinarily diverse movement, part of a community project with 15 September 2009 including the high-profile demonstrations the Museum. New state-of-the-art against touring South African sports teams. Clore Learning Centre The year at the Museum of London opens to the public The photographs and films in London Docklands was rounded off with Women Creatives: Polish Roots (1 October – 1 Making the London Olympics (5 March – November) honoured well-known Polish 31 October), a display of 12 striking prints by residents of London, and explored how the photographer Janie Airey recording the their heritage shaped their lives here. Its contribution made by women in delivering subjects included Adam Ficek (musician London’s Olympic site. and drummer with Babyshambles) and Iwona Blazwick (Director of London’s ). Page 17 /40

Part 4 Exhibitions and Programmes

Events

Over the course of the year the Museum delivered a varied events programme, attracting audiences that might not normally come to the Museum. At 10am on Saturday 6 June, the first of a tag-team of curators, external experts and performers stood up and began telling the story of London from the year 1000 to present, in the Great Museum Marathon. Every 15 minutes for the next 10 hours, someone took a turn: the Black Death happened at 1pm, Shakespeare at 3.15pm, and they finally reached the present day at 8pm. More than 1300 people attended the popular event, which was part of the Mayor’s Story of London festival.

The evening talk series, In Conversation With..., continued this year with speakers including Shami Chakrabati, Tom Hunter, and Alan Rusbridger discussing their relationship with the capital.

The Museum continued its programme of ‘Lates’. At the Museum of London Docklands, East Words @ Late was an evening of poetry and spoken word, while the comedy collective laughterinoddplaces lightened the mood at the Museum of London with an evening of stand-up. A Valentine’s Day Late had an amorous theme, featuring a look at Tudor love lives. Page 18 /40

Part 4 Exhibitions and Programmes

Community Engagement

An impressive Phoenix sculpture adorned At the Museum of London Docklands, with coins became a striking addition the displays inspired by the London, Sugar to the Galleries of Modern London displays & Slavery gallery were all created through this year. ‘Beyond the Public Face’ was community-based partnerships. Other designed by the artist Hale Man, working community engagement initiatives with people from the Chinese communities included a project in which young people in London and a group of adult mental recorded oral histories of second- health service users. Participants made generation migrants from the Caribbean. the coins from copper sheeting, engraving These recordings were featured as an each one to express their stories of living interactive display in the gallery. in London. Work also began on Stories of the World, Inspiring London is a new space created in part of the Cultural Olympiad. At the the Museum of London to host changing Museum of London staff are working with displays. In the spring of 2009, members young people to create high-profile of Capital A – a programme delivering art interventions in the Roman Gallery in 2012. workshops in museums and galleries for vulnerable people – spent two weeks at The Volunteer Inclusion Project (VIP) run the museum, with each participant creating by the London Archaeological Archive and a work, inspired by a painting in the Research Centre took place for a fourth Museum’s collections. These paintings time in the autumn, with a new cohort of were displayed alongside the works created 30 people of all ages, including some from in response (28 May – 12 September). a sixth-form college in . Social inclusion and skill building are an important element of this programme, which this time focused on archiving 500 20th century finds from Shoreditch Park. Page 19 /40

Part 5 Learning

We are here 630,025 visits were made to the learning section of our website this year where new features include interactive games Page 20 /40

Part 5 Learning

Learning

The Museum of London has always placed learning at the heart of its activities and the opening of the Clore Learning Centre has raised our profile as a place for learning even further. This year, we welcomed a total of 138,829 people – from babies to post-graduate students – to our learning programmes.

Clore Learning Centre When she officially opened the Clore Learning Centre, Dame Vivien Duffield, who has supported the development of more than 20 learning centres in some of the country’s most prestigious museums, said she felt it had set a new standard in the sector.

With its flexible and welcoming spaces, vibrant colours and graphics, a striking display of children’s costumes and toys, interactive whiteboards, digital technologies and even cartoons in the toilets, the centre 96,605 primary, secondary, special and hospital is designed to appeal to learners of all ages and abilities. Our programmes take full school pupils visited our Museums or took advantage of these facilities and use them part in outreach programmes during 2009/10. to create links to the Galleries of Modern London. The centre attracted more than 30,000 learners in its first six months and was visited by many museum professionals from the UK and abroad who wished to learn from our experience. Page 21 /40

Part 5 Learning

Schools Families

We developed a range of new programmes Thousands of families came to both our this year in preparation for the opening sites for weekend and holiday events of the Galleries of Modern London, this year. At the Museum of London, including Foundation Stage and primary the October half-term programme was our sessions on pleasure gardens, Windrush first opportunity to use the Clore Learning and cultural change, World War II, and Centre and new activity trolleys with 20th-century technology. Secondary families and we attracted almost 3000 sessions explored public health in the people. At the Museum of London 19th century, the impact of empire, and the Docklands we hosted a four-day family question ‘Am I a Londoner?’, in which pupils event for Chinese New Year, with martial consider issues of identity through dance arts displays and calligraphy which was and creative writing. enjoyed by more than 1000 visitors, and budding archaeologists got their hands At the Museum of London Docklands, the dirty at The Big Dig, a reconstructed emphasis was on developing sessions to archaeological excavation. We are developing consolidate the Museum’s focus on slavery, a growing reputation for our work with the regeneration of the local area (including under-5s, especially at the Museum the Olympics site) and finance. We carried of London Docklands, and new babies out a number of projects with special and toddlers groups were established schools, including a five-week project with at the Museum of London. Paddock School in Wandsworth, a school for children with severe and complex learning We continue to reach out to families who disabilities. The project involved storytelling do not tend to visit museums. This year, we and art workshops at the school, followed ran outreach sessions in Sutton, Merton by a visit to the Museum for object and Southwark for adults and children, handling, dance and music-making sessions. along with sessions at a refuge for teenage We also ran another very successful work mothers in Manor Park and at Barkentine placement in the department for a pupil baby group on the . with learning disabilities, in collaboration with the London Borough of . Page 22 /40

Part 5 Learning

Adults

Adult learning is a rapidly growing part of our work: attendance at our courses more than doubled to 3000 this year. We ran eight evening classes in partnership with Birkbeck College, and formed valuable new partnerships with other organisations such as the City of London Adult and Community Service and the London School of Photography.

These relationships have allowed us to deliver new programmes including computer skills courses aimed at local people at risk “The best educational day at a museum of social exclusion, and Hidden Treasures that we have ever experienced.” of the City, offering digital photography tuition to local over-50s. Secondary teacher With support from Renaissance in the Regions, we also launched the Museum’s first ever ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) programme, in partnership with Southwark College. Page 23 /40

Part 6 Developing the Collections

We are here The Museum of London accessioned 893 new items into the collections during 2009/10 Page 24 /40

Part 6 Developing the Collections Acquisitions

An Alexander McQueen pashmina and a large collection of medieval and early modern buttons found along the Thames were just some of the 893 items acquired by the Museum of London in 2009/10.

One notable acquisition this year was EnTWINed, a painting we commissioned from the Singh Twins (Amrit and Rabindra Singh) as a response to two Henry Nelson O’Neil paintings acquired in 2004. The O’Neil works depict British soldiers embarking and disembarking in the First Indian War of Independence, and the Singh Twins’ work responds from an Indian perspective with an extraordinary and eclectic mix of images touching upon the Indian diaspora throughout the British Isles.

We added to our oral history collection with a group of interviews with key people in the women’s liberation and gay liberation movements. They include Peter Tatchell and Sally Alexander, and feature in the new Galleries of Modern London. EnTWINed, the Twins Singh Page 25 /40

Part 6 Developing the Collections Acquisitions

Oscar Leslie Kirk, born in 1904 in Poplar, would never have imagined he would be broadcasting on Twitter one day. Kirk started working for the Port of London Authority at the age of 14, and this year we acquired a collection of his objects and papers, including a diary full of delightful insights into the life of a young man working on the docks. From January to June 2010, the Museum published daily

Smithfield butcher’s glove extracts from his diary on Twitter.

The Museum purchased 118 of its acquisitions this year through its trust funds; these included the sculpture installed in front of the Museum, a Smithfield butcher’s glove, and a collection of photographs by three British Jamaican-born photographers: Charlie Phillips, Neil Kenlock and . Photograph, Neil Kenlock Pashmina, Alexander McQueen Page 26 /40

Part 6 Developing the Collections

29 October 2009 Long lead media launch for the new Galleries of Modern London begins

Collections Online Collections care

The Museum of London is one of the Our conservators spent much of 2009/10 world’s greatest urban history museums, focusing on the preparation and installation and we want to make our collections of the 7000 objects that make up the available to the widest possible audience. Galleries of Modern London.

Collections Online, which began in 2008, A further 329 objects were prepared for is an ongoing project in which we are the new War, Plague and Fire gallery; this digitising our collections database and project also included the removal of some making it available online for audiences large objects from the old Early Stuart around the world. In Phase One, we put gallery, including the clay pipe kiln, lead the technical infrastructure and work coffin and Wandsworth bed. processes in place and digitised a first tranche of material – the objects on display In March 2010, the Museum’s conservation, in the Galleries of Modern London. collections care and curatorial teams relocated a large store of important Phase Two is a three-year content driven archaeological timbers including the remains project which will work through the of the Rose Theatre. The timbers were collections systematically. The key target decanted, inventoried and moved from for Phase Two is to make 90,000 object an ammunition store in Portsmouth to an records accessible online by 2014. aircraft hangar in Wroughton, where they are safer and more accessible for research. Page 27 /40

Part 7 London Museums Hub

We are here Stories of the World: London is one of ten major projects at the heart of the Cultural Olympiad Page 28 /40

Part 7 London Museums Hub

London Museums Hub

As the lead partner in the London Museums Stories of the World Volunteer management Hub, we are supporting the development Stories of the World is one of the ten major Another major part of our work is to of the capital’s museum sector to make it projects at the heart of the Cultural Olympiad encourage volunteering in museums, more vibrant, diverse and sustainable. and the biggest youth engagement project including giving volunteer management ever under taken by UK museums. The advice and support. This year, the Hub’s The London Museums Hub is a partnership Museum of London, with its partners in the Volunteer Management Advisor organised between the Museum of London and the London Museums Hub, is delivering Stories the first ever London Museum Volunteer Geffrye Museum, and of the World: London as one strand of this. of the Year Awards, with a very successful . This partnership event. These awards recognised and – one of nine regional hubs around the Each of the Hub partners is working celebrated the contribution that volunteers country – is responsible for delivering the around a particular theme, which for us make to London’s museums. We also Museums, Libraries and Archives Council’s is ‘Place’. This year, we recruited four new provided free training to over 700 museum (MLA) Renaissance programme of partner museums to work with us on this: volunteers, covering core skills such as first investment in museums for London. the Museum, Enfield Museum, aid, customer care and object handling. Greenwich Heritage Centre and the This year, we prepared to take on and Amphitheatre. Risk assessment responsibility for museum development Each of them, and the Museum of London Working with the West Midlands Hub, services following the re-structuring of the itself, will be delivering youth engagement we are helping to fund and develop an Museum, Libraries and Archives Council’s projects on the theme of the Roman legacy online tool called Risk Assessment Profiling regional offices. Renaissance-funded on London’s sense of place. Tool (RAPT) which will be used by heritage Museum Development Officers, who organisations to assess and mitigate provide advice and support to all 160-plus We have recruited a youth panel – their risks, including economic, social, accredited museums, were transferred Junction – to help us shape the project. political and legal risks. The RAPT will to the Museum of London as part of the Its outputs will be prominent in the Roman be recommended by the Museums, Central Hub Office. gallery and elsewhere in the museum Libraries and Archives Council as part during 2012, while the legacy of the project of its accreditation process and will be This essential service complements other as a whole will be to change how we work linked from commonly used sites such as regional partnership programmes that the with and value the input of young people, Collections Link. This year has also seen the Museum delivers in its role as lead museum and Londoners in general. You can find development of popular emergency planning for the London region, including: out more about the project by visiting training for museums, to help them protect the section on the their collections if disaster strikes. London 2012 website. Page 29 /40

Part 8 Donors and Supporters

We are here £1.4m was generated in 2009/10 in cash receipts and pledges through public and private philanthropy Page 30 /40

Part 8 Donors and Supporters

Donors and Supporters

Our donors and commercial sponsors have As we move towards closing the campaign, continued to help us further the Museum’s a strategy for the future is already under ambitions this year by supporting the discussion, balancing the need to maintain fundraising campaign for the Galleries the Museum’s upward trajectory with of Modern London. They have also helped the reality of an economic downturn and us deliver important programmes such consequent funding constraints. as adult learning, the preservation of our Certainly, the emphasis on private funding oral history and recorded media archive, and philanthropy is likely to increase, and and the enhancement of collections care. we are delighted that the Capital City Campaign has put the Museum is a strong Galleries of Modern London and position in this growth area. the Clore Learning Centre The Development Department helped Membership 17 November 2009 generate £1,404,993 in 2009/10 through We are also delighted that the Harcourt Lord Mayor’s Coach public and private philanthropy in cash Group – our influential patrons who make returns to its new specially receipts and pledges. The major focus has substantial annual gifts to the Museum – built gallery been the £20.5m Capital City Campaign continued to build support for the new for the new Galleries of Modern London Galleries and beyond. Highlights of and Clore Learning Centre. The total raised the year included the Director’s Tour to reached £18,486,748 in cash receipts and Havana and the Family Tour to Athens. pledges by the end of March 2010. The Museum is also extremely grateful to The success of the Timeline ‘Years of all the Friends of the Museum of London London’s History’ has gathered pace. who have remained engaged with the Many corporate donors and individual Museum while work on the new Galleries patrons have secured a year for £5000. has taken place. The Friends went on This is an important step towards a range of successful visits, including a developing new long-term relationships. behind-the-scenes tour at the and a trip to Trident Recording Studios The Development Board, a group of in Soho. influential and well-connected volunteers under the Chairmanship of Michael Hoffman, has continued to play a lead role in bringing in new supporters and maintaining the impetus behind the campaign for the new Galleries. Page 31 /40

Part 8 Donors and Supporters

Development Board Members Basil Samuel Charitable Trust Up to £5000 David and Judy Green Selfridges & Co.* The Golden Bottle Trust Rupert and Robin Hambro Michael Hoffman (Chairman) The Stationers’ and Newspaper MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund The Lady Hamlyn Gillian Day Makers’ Company The Paul Mellon Centre for Andrew Hawkins Katharine Doré OBE (until March 2010) Clara Tucci and Reid Perper* Studies in British Art Max Hebditch Robert Dufton Richard and Susie Thornton* NYSE Euronext Michael and Mercedes Hoffman Mark Elliott Vision Capital LLP* Titus and Maggie Kendall Tony Elliott Carole and David Warren* Harcourt Group Bill and Kristen Kennish James Hickman Offer and Mika Waterman* James and Clare Kirkman Camilla Mash The Whiley Family* Felicity Osborne (Chair) Paul and Sue Kumleben Felicity Osborne Keith and Fiona Lindblom Ashar Qureshi Up to £5000 Adam and Tracy-Jane Afriyie Simon and Sophia Lofthouse Michael Uva The Cordwainers’ Company Nicholas and Tobe Aleksander Mark and Liza Loveday Mark Warham The Gunmakers’ Company Christopher Allen and Katharine Doré OBE John and Tessa Manser Charitable Trust Lord and Lady Ashburton Terry and Helen Mansfield Capital City campaign 2009/10 – The McDowell Family Gary and Dawn Baker Charles and Sarah Martin gifts and new pledges Simon and Midge Palley Simon and Maggie Baynes Julian and Camilla Mash The Spectacle Makers’ Company Robbie Biddulph Matthew McEvoy and Amanda Yi £50,000 and above The Wheelwrights’ Company Tony and Gisela Bloom Hardy and Helle McLain Manny and Brigitta Davidson The World Traders’ Company Charles and Rosamond Brown Pradeep and Beena Menon The Foyle Foundation Farran and Robert Brown Philip and Christine Miles Ashar and Mahreen Qureshi Museum Programmes, Peter and Rosemary Brown OBE Hilali and Samiya Noordeen Renaissance London Acquisitions and London Peter and Ravida Clay Sir Peter and Lady Osborne The Max Sheere Bequest Archaeological Archive and Sir Terence and Lady Conran Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe Research Centre John and Jennifer Crompton David and Susan Peake £5000 – £50,000 Bernard and Georgina David Ashar and Mahreen Qureshi SJ Berwin LLP* £50,000 and above Colin and Helen David David and Debra Reuben Bernard and Georgina David* Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Manny and Brigitta Davidson Sir John and Lady Ritblat Colin and Helen David Rob and Gillian Day Ian Robinson and Darryl Day Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP* £5000 – £50,000 Andre and Natalia De Cort Martin and Nevine Rose The Goldsmiths’ Company The Art Fund Matthew and Kate Dobbs Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Alison and Susan Hahn* Group plc Pat and Doreen Doherty Lord and Lady Sainsbury of The Hearst Corporation * The Clothworkers’ Foundation Dame Vivien Duffield Preston Candover The International Bankers* The Glovers’ Company Gilbert and Victoria Dunlop Coral Samuel CBE Lazard & Co., Limited* James and Clare Kirkman Pascal and Françoise Duval Bruno Schroder Simon and Sophia Lofthouse* The Learning Revolution/The Erik and Libby Engstrom James and Dr Shirley Sherwood Terry and Helen Mansfield* Transformation Fund Kathleen Frenchman Christoph and Pamela Stanger The Mercers’ Company Port of London Authority Anthony and Ann Fry Hugh and Catherine Stevenson Hilali and Samiya Noordeen* State Street Andrew Green and Jennifer Hirschl Sir Mark and Lady Thomson Richard and Susie Thornton Page 32 /40

Part 8 Donors and Supporters

Dr The Bowyers’ Company Pat Painting Richard Tray and Maria Diaz Del Rio Brookfield Europe Anthony G Pilson Clara Tucci and Reid Perper Charles Bullock Clare Reynolds William and Susie Tyne Gerry Bunn Malcolm Robinson Michael and Yvonne Uva Anita Charles Cathy Ross Richard and Susan Walduck The Chartered Surveyors’ Company Kate Rosser Carole and David Warren James Chatfield Ian J Smith The Weston Family Daphne Chinnery Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust George and Patti White Sue Clark Kristina Taylor Daniel and Marianna Wiener The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields UGG Australia Geoffrey and Marilyn Wilson Peggy F Cooper UK Payments Administration The late Lord Wolfson and Lady Wolfson Dazed Group I Wallen 18 December 2009 Faith Sybil Eaton Tom Wareham The 45 metre elliptical Tudor and Saxon Friends The Engineers’ Company Malcolm Watson LED curtain is installed Jennifer Everett Ken Waughman in the Sackler Hall Brian Marsh OBE Peter Fairman Robert Wright Peter and Janet Ferguson-Foote Andrew Wyatt Leo Judge Alison Fraser Carola Zogolovitch Mrs Naomi Jump Michael Green Peter McLean Terry Greenwood Donors of gifts in kind Peter and Maggie Murray-Smith Christabel Gurney Mrs Sally Walton Joan Gye James and Denise Hickman Martin Williams Anthony Halliday Time Out Group Ltd Hanson Quarry Products Europe Michael and Yvonne Uva Donors to the collection I M Harson Philip M Hedley-Prole * Indicates donor to ‘A Year Anonymous donors Joyce Hilsden of London’s History’ Timeline John Absalom Honav The Actuaries’ Company Euphemia Dorothy May Hook David Applegate Ivor Noel Hume Frances Archer Martin Kaufman John Band Jackie Keily Jill Barnard London & Quadrant Housing Trust Beatbullying E M Maitland Halla Beloss Dennis Martin Simon Bendall The Masons’ Company Museum and Art Gallery Joyce Morris Alexander Bloor Judith and Terry Murphy Wendy M Bolt Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service Page 33 /40

Part 9 Finance Publications Governance

We are here There were over 4.5m visits to the Museum of London website in 2009/10 Page 34 /40

Part 9 Finance

Income 2009/10 Museum of London funding Statement from the Chairman

7 From 1 April 2008 the Museum of London The full annual financial statements, from £000 6 1 has been jointly funded by the City of which these summary financial statements 1 Greater London Authority 9,512 5 2 Archaeology & Non-Commercial Actvities 7,317 London and the Greater London Authority are derived and on which the auditors gave 3 City of London Corporation 7,169 4 (GLA), after responsibility was transferred an unqualified opinion, were approved by 4 Commercial Trading 1,585 to the GLA from the Department for the Board on 6 October 2010. For further 5 London Museums Hub 1,569 (ring fenced programmes) Culture, Media and Sport. In 2009/10 these information, the full annual financial 6 Public and Private Philanthropy 1,209 two main funders contributed 59% of the statements, the auditors report on those (Development Department) Museum’s regular voluntary funding; other financial statements and the trustees’ 7 Investment Income 95 funders include the Heritage Lottery Fund annual report should be consulted. Income 2009/10 28,456 and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). Income from archaeological Copies of these can be downloaded from 2 services provided by Museum of London www.museumoflondon.org.uk Archaeology accounts for around 25% 3 of the Museum’s total income. Alongside On behalf of the Board vital support from philanthropic grants Michael Cassidy CBE Expenditure 2009/10 and donations (an increasingly important Chairman source of funding for the Museum), 8 9 additional income is raised through £000 7 1 commercial trading activities such as retail, 1 Archaeology & Non-commercial Activities 6,767 6 2 Collections 5,493 venue hire and catering. 3 Galleries and Exhibitions 5,525 5 4 Programmes and Learning 3,743 5 Commercial Trading 1,749 6 Communications 1,230 7 Development 816 (including membership and fundraising) 8 Governance 98 9 Exceptional Item 68 2 4 Expenditure 2009/10 25,489

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30 January 2010 New War, Plague and Fire gallery opens to the public Page 35 /40

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Total number of visits to the Museum of London: Total number of visits to the Museum of London Docklands:

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14 February 2010 Over 2000 visitors take part in events to celebrate the Chinese New Year at the Museum of London Docklands Page 36 /40

Part 9 Publications

The Museum of London aims to create and share Books, monographs and study series Shepherd, J & Wardle, A, 2009, The glass workers of Roman London. expertise. Our understanding of London is continually Birchenough, A, Dwyer, E, Elsden, N, Museum of London Archaeology shaped by ongoing research and discoveries. We Lewis, H et al, 2009, Tracks through time: Archaeology and history from the East Wright, S M & Ottaway, P, 2009, produce a large number of publications every year London Line Project. Museum of London The Netherlands: Report and proceedings Archaeology of the 154th summer meeting of the ourselves and our staff also contribute to a range of Royal Archaeological Institute in 2008, Blatherwick, S & Bluer, R, 2009, Great Archaeological Journal, 165 (2008) specialist academic journals. The following list houses, moats and mills on the Supplement represents the achievements of the past year. of the Thames: Medieval and Tudor Southwark and Rotherhithe. Museum of Journal papers, articles, reviews and London Archaeology Monograph 47 contributions

Bowsher, J & Miller, P, 2009, The Rose Barnard, J, Ganiaris, H, & Goodman, L, and the Globe – playhouses of Shakespeare’s 2009, ‘London’s Roman amphitheatre: Bankside, Southwark: Excavations 1988-91. Mounting archaeological timbers for Museum of London Archaeology display’, Proceedings of the 10th ICOM group Monograph 48 on wet organic archaeological materials conference, Amsterdam 2007, 465-7 Cowan, C, Seeley, F, Wardle, A, Westman, A & Wheeler, L, 2009, Roman Southwark Bateman, N, 2009, ‘What’s the point of settlement and economy: Excavations London’s amphitheatre? A clue from Diana’, in Southwark 1973-91. Museum of London in T Wilmott (ed), Roman amphitheatres and Archaeology Monograph 42 spectacula: A 21st-century perspective (Papers from an international conference held at Hirst, S & Clark D, 2009, Excavations at Chester, 16th-18th Feb 2007). Oxford: BAR Mucking: Volume 3, The Anglo-Saxon International Series 1946, 157-63 cemeteries. Museum of London Archaeology Bayley J, Croxford, B, Henig, M & Watson, Pitt, K & Taylor, J, 2009, ’s B, 2009, ‘A gilt-bronze arm from London’, moated manor, medieval land use and later Britannia 40, 151-62 development in the Finsbury Square area, Islington. Museum of London Archaeology Behlen, B, 2010, ‘Preface’, in A de la Haye Studies Series 20 & J Clark, 1960/2010. London College of Fashion Page 37 /40

Part 9 Publications

Journal papers, articles, reviews and Davidson, H & Pigozne, I, 2010, Forsyth, H, 2009, ‘ hoard’, Coutts Lohman, J, 2009, ‘Community heritage contributions continued… ‘Archaeological dress and textiles in Latvia London Jewellery Week http://www.coutts. partnerships – a view from London’, from the 7th to 13th centuries: Research, com/woman/2009/june/features/tales-of- in Embedding shared heritage. Greater Bekvalac, Jelena, 2009, ‘Skeletons results and reconstructions’, in G R Owen- jewellery-stones.asp London Authority, 56-8 and disease: Diagnosis from a skeletal Crocker & R Netherton Medieval clothing perspective’, Medical Science History and textiles. Woodbridge: Boydell and Forsyth, H, 2009, ‘’, Lohman, J, 2010, ‘Foreword’, in H-L Journal 25, 1-13 Brewer, 1-32 Jewellery History Today 6 (October 2009), 13 Skartveit & K Goodnow (eds), Changes in museum practice: New media, refugees Blair, I, 2007, ‘The Prittlewell prince: Davis, S, 2009, ‘Water-power in medieval Forsyth, H, 2009, ‘The Cheapside hoard’, and participation. Museum of London/ An Anglo-Saxon royal; burial’, in B M Fagan Greenwich’, Current Archaeology 236, 30-5 The Goldsmith, July 2009, 15-18 Berghahn Books, vii-x (ed), Discovery! Unearthing the new treasures of archaeology. Thames & Hudson, 106-9 Day, A, Harding, J & Mullen, J, ‘Refugee Goodman, L & Hall, J, 2009, ‘A thousand Looseley, R, 2010, ‘21st-century history’, stories: The refugee communities history glass petals’, ICON News 23 (July 2009), Creative Teaching & Learning 1.1, 54-5 Bowsher, D, 2009, ‘The integrated report’, project, partnership and collaboration’, in 12-14 IFA yearbook and directory 2009, 32 H-L Skartveit & K Goodnow (eds), Changes Mackinder, T with Egan, G, 2009, ‘The in museum practice: New media, refugees Grainger, I, 2010, ‘Feeding the Navy’, Thames waterfront revisited’, Medieval Bystron, A, 2009, ‘Matrix i czerwona and participation. Museum of London, 35-47 London Archaeologist 12(7), 197-8 Archaeology 53, 350-55 ksiazeczka’, Archeologia Zywa 6, 47-9 [article on MOLA site manual and Harris Demb, S with Lomas, E & Brown, M, 2009, Halsey, C, J & Scaife, R F with Roberts, Maloney, C, 2009, ‘Fieldwork Round-up Matrix] ‘Continued communication – maximising K, 2010, ‘The Mesolithic landscape in the 2008’, London Archaeologist 12, the potential of organisational Wandle Valley’, London Archaeologist 12(7), Supplement 2, 45-81 Carew, T with Goodburn, D & Jefferies, communications: The research and outputs 191-6 N, 2009, ‘Post-medieval wharfs on the of a co-operative inquiry’, in Olatokun, Morley, M, 2010, ‘The Battersea Channel: Channelsea River: Burford Wharf Calico Ola (ed), Proceedings of the Department of Hedblad, S, 2009, ‘Secrets of London – a A former course of the River Thames?’, Printing Works, Stratford E15’, London Library and Information Studies (DLIS) 2009 course for non-visiting parents’, GEM Case London Archaeologist 12(7), 175-81 Archaeologist 12(6), 163-9 Biennial international conference: Managing Studies, 2, 22-3 Information in the Digital Era, 14-16 October Morris, J, 2010, ‘Commercial Catling, C, 2010, Review: ‘Wardle, 2009. University of Botswana: Gaborone, Jeffries, N, 2009, ‘A biography of a zooarchaeology in the ’, A & Shepherd, J, 2009, The glass workers 1-16. stoneware ginger beer bottle. The Biucchi Environmental Archaeology 15(1), 81-91 of Roman London’, Current Archaeology brothers and the Ticinese community in 241, 20-43 Egan, G, 2010, ‘Report of the Portable 19th-century London’, in C L White (ed) Neaves, S, 2010, ‘Working with fathers’, Antiquities Scheme 2008’, Post-Medieval Materiality of individuality: Archaeological Case Studies 4. Group for Education Cowie, R, 2007, ‘Saxon London, concealed Archaeology 44(1), 223-34 studies of individual lives. Springer Press: in Museums, 3 beneath the city streets’, in B M Fagan (ed), New York, 57-74 Discovery! Unearthing the new treasures of Egan, G & Jackson, S, 2010, ‘Tales from Nicholls, M & Scaife, R, 2008, archaeology. Thames & Hudson, 170-1 the riverbank’, Museum of London Lewis, H, 2009, ‘The elusive vill: In search ‘Palaeoenviromental reconstruction Friendsnews 36, 14-15 of Kingston’s late Saxon manor’, London from sediments at West Quay Road, Archaeologist 12(5), 119-26 Southampton’, Journal of Wetland Archaeology 8, 91-119 Page 38 /40

Part 9 Publications

Journal papers, articles, reviews and Walker, D & Henderson, M, 2010, ‘Smoking contributions continued… and health in London’s East End in the first half of the 19th century’, Post-Medieval Pearce, J, 2010, ‘Pottery assemblage’ in G Archaeology 44(1), 209–222 Stemm & S Kingsley (eds) Oceans Odyssey; Deep-sea shipwrecks in the English Channel, Watson, S & Pearce, J, 2010, ‘Taverns Straits of Gibraltar and Atlantic Ocean. and other entertainments in the City Oxbow Books, 185-6 of London? 17th- and 18th-century finds from excavations at Square’, Redfern, R C, 2009, ‘A regional examination Post-Medieval Archaeology 44(1), 172-208 of surgery and fracture treatment in Iron Age and Roman Britain’, International Werner A, 2009, ‘The Museum of London Journal of Osteoarchaeology, http://www3. and knowledge centres’, in T Dhaese (ed), interscience.wiley.com/journal/122289138/ What’s in a name? Knowledge and research in abstract museums (Proceedings of Symposium MAS _Kenniscentrum. Kenniscentra in Musea). Schofield, J & Pearce, J with Betts, I, Dyson, Antwerp: Museum aan de Stroom, 4-9 T, & Egan, G, 2009, ‘Thomas Soane’s buildings near , London 1640- Westman, A, 2010, ‘Standing buildings: 66’, Post-Medieval Archaeology 43(2), Archaeology… but not as we know it’, 282-341 Museum of London Friendsnews 40, 14-15

Thomas, C, 2007, ‘The Spitalfields lady: Wood, C ‘Les archives de Sainsbury: The finest grave ever found in London’, origines et actualité’, Les Archives: in B M Fagan (ed), Discovery! Unearthing Patrimoine et richesse de l’enterprise’, the new treasures of archaeology. Thames La Gazette Des Archives 213 (Année 2009-1), & Hudson, 84-5 129-37

Vuolteenaho, J with Betts, I, Pipe, Woodhead, R, 2010, ‘Object lessons’, A & Richardson, B, 2010, ‘New evidence Nursery World, 27 January 2010, 16-17 for the London–Colchester Roman road and adjacent settlement at Bow/Old Ford’, London Archaeologist 12(8), 223-7 15 March 2010 Galleries of Modern London Watson, B, 2009, ‘Saxo-Norman are formally handed over Southwark: A review of the archaeological to the Museum for final and historical evidence’, London stages of preparation Archaeologist 12(6), 147-51 Page 39 /40

Part 9 Governance

Governors of the Board Audit Committee of the Museum of London Rev Dr Martin Dudley Michael Cassidy CBE (Chairman) Cllr Maurice Groves (from 11 June 2009) Jennette Arnold Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe Kenneth Ayers (from 11 June 2009 to 16 June 2010) Rt. Hon. Paul Boateng Michael Welbank (from 17 December 2009) (from 17 September 2009) Blondel Cluff (from 12 April 2010) Rev Dr Martin Dudley Building Development Robert Dufton Committee Rosemary Ewles (from 12 April 2010) Cllr Maurice Groves (from 16 April 2009) Geoffrey Wilson OBE Tom Hoffman (Chairman until 19 July 2010) Tom Jackson LLB (until 13 March 2009) Michael Cassidy CBE Lesley Knox (until 2 December 2009) Lesley Knox Andrew Macdonald (from 12 April 2010) (until 2 December 2009) Julian H Malins QC Professor Jack Lohman Camilla Mash Michael Welbank Sir Michael Oliver (until 10 January 2010) Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe Finance and General Dr Mark Patton LLD Purposes Committee (until 20 November 2009) Eric Reynolds (from 12 April 2010) Michael Cassidy CBE (Chairman) Patrick Roney CBE (until 13 March 2009) Kenneth Ayers Eric Sorensen Robert Dufton Michael Welbank QC “We would like to congratulate all Geoffrey Wilson OBE (until 19 July 2010) Mark Patton (until 20 November 2009) of the Museum’s staff for the success Committee Membership of 2009/10 and we look forward Archaeology Committee to an exciting year ahead…” Eric Sorensen (Chairman from 3 December 2009) Lesley Knox (Chairman until 2 December 2009) Jennette Arnold Tom Hoffman Geoffrey Wilson OBE (until 18 November 2009) Page 40 /40

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