As a museum in the "Olympic Borough" of Hackney, the Geffrye Museum was always going to respond positively to both Stories of the World and the linked Cultural Olympiad project London World City.
Geffrye's work is part of a response from London museums that has focused on the four themes of identity, home, journeys and place. As a museum that specialises in presenting the furniture, textiles, paintings and decorative arts of English middle-class living rooms since 1600, it is well-placed to be the lead partner on the theme of home, working with four partner museums around the capital. Here was an opportunity to get some stuff out of storage and have young people reinterpret it.
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