Homeless in the Capital

Thursday, 4 December 2008 - Thursday, 5 February 2009

Museum of London, London Wall, City, EC2Y 5HN

How Much: Free!

There are many marginalised elements in contemporary society, the most obvious and yet, perversely, the most often ignored of which is the homeless: nobody even knows how many there are in London at any one time, and apart from The Big Issue they are barely given a voice at all, or at least not one that people listen to.

A new exhibition at the Museum of London attempts to change all of this by exhibiting 24-hour diaries, videos, artwork and poetry produced by homeless people in London over the past eighteen months.

Thanks to homeless charity The Connection at St Martin's, you can learn the stories of people like Celeste Braithwaite, who is now starring in a production at the Almeida Theatre, or Samson Mel, a former Air Force pilot.

There's obviously great sadness here, but also humour and hope. Homeless in the Capital is a positive move towards the recognition that homeless people exist as much as anybody else. This (and, indeed, they) should not be ignored.

Until 22.02.09.