Museum of Brands

Advance booking only 

Close to Portobello Road in Notting Hill, the Museum explores how brands shape, and are shaped by, people culture and society. The exhibits tell a fascinating story of how everyday lives have changed during the past 150 years. Discover the evolution of travel and transport, entertainment and leisure, toys and games, and the arrival of hundreds of new brands that have made life easier and more convenient.

It is a vibrant social history that is interwoven with royal occasions, two world wars, and events such as man landing on the moon.

On your journey through the chronological Time Tunnel, you will find the arrival of Cadbury’s cocoa, steam railways, mechanical music, cigarettes, colour printing, Fry’s chocolate, Bovril, radio, Shredded Wheat, Oxo, Lyons individual fruit pies, Mickey Mouse, television, Spangles, Tide, Omo, Dan Dare, Angel Delight, Barbie, Action Man, The Beatles, Watney’s Party Seven, Aqua Manda, Punk, Rubiks Cube, ZX Spectrum, and thousands of other products which together create the rich tapestry of British life.

The Museum includes a café to be enjoyed in our garden full of sub-tropical plants. A range of books, merchandise and mementos can be purchased from the Museum’s gift shop.