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Museum of London

  • 18 trustees
  • Income £129m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£129m£27m
  • 2024£100m£72m
  • 2023£61m£58m
Earlier years
  • 2022£49m£47m
  • 2021£36m£39m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 86%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

GENERAL FUNCTIONS OF THE BOARD(1) SO FAR AS PRACTICABLE AND SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT, IT SHALL BE THE DUTY OF THE BOARD:(A) TO CARE FOR, PRESERVE AND ADD TO THE OBJECTS IN THEIR COLLECTIONS;(B) TO SECURE THAT THOSE OBJECTS ARE EXHIBITED TO THE PUBLIC AND MADE AVAILABLE TO PERSONS SEEKING TO INSPECT THEM IN CONNECTION WITH STUDY OR RESEARCH; AND(C) GENERALLY TO PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF HISTORIC AND CONTEMPORARY LONDON AND OF ITS SOCIETY AND CULTURE, BOTH BY MEANS OF THEIR COLLECTIONS AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THEY CONSIDER APPROPRIATE.(2) THE BOARD MAY, SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT, DO ALL SUCH THINGS AS THEY THINK NECESSARY OR EXPEDIENT FOR THOSE PURPOSES AND THEIR FUNCTIONS UNDER THIS ACT.(3) WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF SUBSECTION (2) ABOVE, FOR THE PURPOSES MENTIONED IN SUBSECTION (1) ABOVE THE BOARD MAY:(A) PROVIDE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES AND UNDERTAKE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AND RESEARCH IN CONNECTION WITH LAND IN LONDON, PUBLISH INFORMATION CONCERNING SUCH INVESTIGATIONS AND RESEARCH AND PROMOTE THE PROVISION OF SUCH SERVICES AND THE UNDERTAKING OF SUCH INVESTIGATIONS AND RESEARCH AND THE PUBLISHING OF SUCH INFORMATION;(B) SUBJECT TO SUBSECTION (4) BELOW, ACQUIRE OR DISPOSE OF ANY LAND OR ANY ESTATE OR INTEREST IN LAND.(4) THE BOARD SHALL NOT ACQUIRE OR DISPOSE OF ANY LAND OR ANY ESTATE OR INTEREST IN LAND WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE CORPORATION AND SUCH CONSENT MAY BE GIVEN SUBJECT TO SUCH CONDITIONS AS THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE CORPORATION CONSIDER APPROPRIATE.(5) IN THIS SECTION ("LONDON") INCLUDES ALL GREATER LONDON AND THE SURROUNDING REGION.

Grants received

23 grants · £45,220,080 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £3,000,0002026-03-23
  • LUND TRUST £1,400,0002025-11-03
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £5,000,0002022-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £1,120,2402021-12-13
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £249,3252021-12-08

Contracts awarded

1 contract

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender (Open Government Licence v3.0), where this organisation is recorded as the buyer. Suppliers are matched to a Governance Register company or charity page at confidence 0.7 or higher; below that they are shown by name only.

Top suppliers

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

18 trustees on the board

4.5y median 4y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (15)

Portfolio (3)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 18Education/training 18Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 1Business services 1Education 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£128.5m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

267 from 260 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1139250
Status
Registered
Governing document
MUSEUM OF LONDON ACT 1965
Contact on the register
02070019844 · info@museumoflondon.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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