Dancing to artefacts: London Museum will be ‘democratic’ space for all, says director

A decade in the making, the museum will reopen in November in two restored market halls with displays and late-night DJ sets The new London Museum will be “a social space for the city”, its director has said, hosting afternoon tea events, monthly dinner clubs and late-night DJ sets where visitors can mingle among the artefacts while dancing. Sharon Ament said that when it reopened later this year the museum would be a “democratic” space that engaged with all Londoners rather than merely a repository for its collections, which stretch from the city’s neolithic prehistory to modern acquisitions.

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