Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities
A small Hackney museum and bar packed into a former call centre, displaying a cabinet-of-curiosities mix of taxidermy, shrunken heads, occult ephemera and outsider art.
- Hidden gem
- Price: £ · Budget
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Did you know
The museum was crowdfunded via Kickstarter in 2015 by its founder Viktor Wynd, and its collection sits alongside a functioning cocktail bar, so the same room doubles as an exhibit space and a place to have a drink among the oddities.
Local tip
It's a compact space best paired with a drink at the attached bar rather than treated as a standalone museum visit, and it's a short walk from Cambridge Heath Overground station rather than a Tube stop.
Finding it
- Address
- The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11, Mare Street, Hackney, London Borough of Hackney, Greater London, England, E8 4RP
- Nearest station
- Cambridge Heath (London) (Overground), 226 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
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