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Discover the story of London’s largest Victorian Ragged School, opened by Dr Barnardo in 1877. For thirty years the school served some of the poorest children in the Victorian East End.

Find us on the Regent’s Canal by Mile End Park our former warehouses have undergone major refurbishment funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. All floors are accessible by lift and our atmospheric Ragged Café opens onto the Canal towpath.

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Classroom

At the heart of the Ragged School Museum is our unique classroom, where each year some 16,000 children come to experience a glimpse of Victorian life.

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Forgotten Tale

Forgotten Tale is an immersive installation by the artist Clarisse d’Arcimoles who meticulously recreated a life size, three-dimensional black and white photograph of a Spitalfields home in 1902.

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Ragged Café

With a reputation for outstanding food and great service, the renowned team of Limpet Baron and David Hughes are now running the Ragged café, based at The Ragged School Museum.

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School's Programme

Our Schools Programme has been developed to provide children with black board an exciting way of engaging their young minds with history, and to encourage them to use their imaginations and creative thinking.

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