Museum of Croydon — Attraction in London

Interesting beginnings of a past Croydon from road maps, to see how much is concrete isn't easy due to massive road works. Objects are nice and especially the teddy bunnies, I wanted to take one home so lovely I decided to take pictures and how decent of the museum allowing you to do so. Great attraction as Croydon is in a London Borough but it lost out with the Vestry being kept as a separate chart, it's a slightly bias display but lovely artefacts for a growing town , book a whole day for the visit because there is also a smaller museum downstairs with history of Roman and Anglo Saxon artefacts and of course a display of our inherited Ming China estimates at 2 million , Mayday hospital built on a peak of a actual mountain and division of estate history listed to read.. nice ambience , lovely staff very posh venue , I felt VIP and the best display of customer experience as I received something unexpected as a customer. They have a restroom and a jazz cafe and a...

A small but interesting museum about the history of Croydon. Artefacts have been donated/loaned by current and former occupants of the town and tell the story of Croydon’s recent history and further back.

You should expect to spend approximately an hour to an hour and a half here if you want to look at all of the displays and read the notes, etc.

A few interactive exhibits for kids, but more geared towards the people and the history than a “pushing buttons” museum. Worth a visit to soak up the...

staff are very helpful, and considering that it's free, I would say it's well worth a visit. We spend a good couple of hours in here, mainly watching the short films that were on (sit and watch them all!) but there was a lot of interesting bits and bobs from Croydon's history. Not sure if the labelling is up to par though - lots of random things labelled with LGBT stickers, and for some reason there was some sauces from Wing Yip being exhibited??? Stretching it a...