Brent Museum and Archives
Museums & Science Centres · Willesden Green, Outer London
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Closed — opens Tuesday at 10.30am
🏠 Indoor🆓 Free entryEducational
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
No parking at the library. Nearest council car park on Salusbury Road; pay and display on Grange Road.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Brent Museum and Archives is the borough's local history museum, run by Brent Council and housed on the upper floor of the library at Willesden Green. The museum side holds more than 10,000 objects, from old toys and household items to oral history recordings and photographs, covering working and domestic life in Brent from about 1850 to the present day. Free temporary exhibitions show newly acquired objects alongside loans from other museums, so there is usually something new to look at on each visit. The archive side has old photographs, postcards, maps, street directories and local newspapers dating back to 1870, which older children studying local history or family trees may find fascinating. Visits are quiet and relaxed, and the venue suits families looking for a free, indoor outing close to Willesden Green tube station.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Tissues
- Plasters
- Lunch boxes
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Rucksack
- Painkillers for grown-ups
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