The London Museum where you can see inside a narrowboat cabin, learn about the history of London's canals, about the cargoes carried, the people who lived and worked on the waterways, and the horses that pulled their boats. Peer down into the unique heritage of a huge Victorian ice well used to store ice imported from Norway and brought by ship and canal boat to be stored. This unique waterways museum is housed in a former ice warehouse built in about 1862-3 for Carlo Gatti, the famous ice cream maker, and features the history of the ice trade and ice cream as well as the canals.

There are two themes at London Canal Museum. London's canals have a fascinating past and you will learn not only how they came to be built but about the lives of the workers, the cargoes, horses and how canals work. We are a waterways museum first and foremost, but also an industrial museum telling the story of the ice industry in London. It is the only London museum of inland waterways and is situated at King's Cross, an accessible central location. 

Our visit includes introductory talk to the Canal Museum whose exhibitions cover the following themes: 

• Background to canals in England 
• Life on the canals 
• Canal painting and decorative pottery
• Lifting and handling
• Carlo Gatti, the Ice Trade, and Ice Cream
• Tractor Power
• Horse Power
• Water and Locks
• London's Living Waterways (including archive film)
• Boats and Cargoes
• London Waterways Map

We then have a  guided walk to the Society of Genealogists along the canal. 

Contact events@sog.org.uk if you have any questions.