Visitors will be able to follow the story of the city after the Second World War through film and photographs, showing how the city became home to a diverse population.
Named Londoners, the new area will be part of the museum’s current £18m redevelopment and should open with the rest of the planned improvements in 2009. The £70,000 grant for the Londoners project has come from the government administered DCMS/Wolfson fund.
The new gallery will highlight the rise of youth culture and multiculturalism from the 1950s onwards, with displays of street festivals like the Notting Hill Carnival, Chinese New Year celebrations and Gay Pride.
