City Wall at Vine Street — Attraction in London

Great to see an ancient space in a modern building that has been done properly instead as an afterthought for required planning permission.

The section of wall and the museum around it are small and compact, but the way in which the first section is combined with the building from 1901 around it and the jacks and steel supports that have installed for the latest construction are a great way to display the context of the buildings.

The museum exhibits are well presented, especially the final cabinets that show artefacts from two individual homes and give a real sense of the families that lived there.

A video presentation also provides an introduction to the timeline of the buildings and city in the last eighteen hundred years.

It’s simple and small and probably only takes an hour to look at and read everything, but it’s modern, stylish, well designed and presented.

There’s a coffee shop at the back, that at the moment has to be accessed, by going back out the entrance and round the block, but looks like later should be available by a rear...

I had no idea when I visited London this weekend that I would get to stand beside the original Roman City Wall. Indeed I had no idea it was there.

The wall and the artifacts that were discovered below this modern Student Accommodation building in Vine Street have been carefully curated to form an engaging and interesting museum. The gentle pace of the visit and the highly informative video telling the story of the Wall, and of London, from Roman times to today were very worthwhile. How delightful to find such attention to detail in a free exhibition like this. I'll recommend the site to any of my friends who travel to London...

Absolutely loved this!! For a FREE site to see in London, it's been done incredibly well. Copious finds from several eras are neatly displayed and described in a long glass cabinet, and there is a neat video on the story of this section of the ancient City Wall, from construction through to disuse and reuse, then finally to rediscovery and rebirth as a new visitor attraction. Friendly staff and an excellent cafe round it off. All that was missing was somewhere to buy a souvenir, guidebook, or other memento...