London Canal Museum - Exhibitions

Exhibitions

The exhibitions cover the following topics:

• introduction to UK waterways
• canal life (social history)
• canal art
• lifting and handling cargo
• the ice trade
• canal craft
• working horses on the canals and the streets
• the Regent's Canal
• large scale historical map of London's canals
• water and locks
• the museum's Bantam Tug
• Water and Locks, an exhibition about canal engineering and water supply, opened by H.R.H. The Princess Royal in October 2010

The museum has regular temporary exhibitions that change about twice a year. Oral history from the museum's own collection is used to complement the exhibitions with "listening posts" covering several topics being situated around the building. These are labelled in Braille as well as having conventional signage.