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New Gallery To Tell The Story Of Post War Londoners
By Graham Spicer
31/08/2007
Image: black and white photo of a large crowd of people at a street party
The first Notting Hill Carnival photographed by Charlie Phillips 1968. © Charlie Phillips
The story of modern London is to be examined in a major new exhibit at the Museum of London.
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.
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