Museum of Brands: Evolution of Packaging and Design

Explore the fascinating history of consumer culture at the Museum of Brands. Discover the evolution of packaging, advertising, and design from the Victorian era to present day. Get your entrance ticket now!

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Museum of Brands - Entry to the Museum
What's Included
  • Museum Entry
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
Additional Information

Positioned a stone’s throw from the renowned Portobello Road, this emporium of consumer culture displays the progression of domestic packaging, advertising, and design from the Victorian period to the modern day, boasting more than 12,000 items. Explore the transformation of food packaging, toys, magazines, technology, travel, and fashion from some of the globe’s most cherished brands over the last 150 years.

Location
Museum of Brands
111-117 Lancaster Road, Notting Hill
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Alison_f
Jan 31, 2025
Brilliant! - Fantastic place. So much interesting stuff to see. It took us down a really good trip to memory lane.
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Roger_g835
Nov 28, 2024
Remember this? - Great nostalgic 90 minutes, I'd put good money on the word "remember" being the most-used word in our many conversations. PS Even the coffee in the cafe was good.
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Acampbell18
Nov 2, 2024
lovely look back over many years of toys food etc - what a great little find it was so well set out and coffee shop was lovely all so clean and fresh we had mixed age group of adults and we all loved it
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Resort06715871424
Oct 28, 2024
super nice - Excellent museum. You will be immersed in the universe of brands throughout history since Victorian times for 1h30 for us. Good family activity that ends in a nice little garden. A cafeteria is available and the staff is very nice. If you do not pass there, do not hesitate!
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839franciscob
Oct 3, 2024
Excellent & unusual experience in London - A group of our summer school in London to visit the museum as a part of their business lessons in the summer. Students enjoyed their afternoon and took away useful and expanded knowledge of branding and marketing.
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Culture18283775527
Oct 3, 2024
Fun museum, great for a morning or afternoon activity - What a fun museum! As a visitor from the USA, I was unsure how many brands I would recognize, but was pleasantly surprised! The exhibits were well curated and fun to follow. Staff were helpful and knowledgable. Definitely recommend when visiting Notting Hill!
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Troy
Aug 13, 2024
Iconic and eye opening tour down memory lane. - Of all the museums in London this one was the best. It starts with the oldest memories of consumerism and then keeps building and gets better and more comprehensive as you progress. We were there for over an hour and a half marveling at the sheer volume of artifacts that this museum has collected. It was considerably greater than what I had expected and definitely well worth the small fee to enter. A great tour down memory lane and I even learnt a few things along the way. Be sure to note the plaques on the iconic building that houses the museum. Highly recommended.
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Meganrn6661dc
Jul 27, 2024
MAGICAL EXPERIENCE - IT WAS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE, FULL OF GOOD TIMES EXCELLENT PHOTOS I COULD CAPTURE, THAT CERTAINLY REMAINED IN MY MEMORY FOREVER
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282luciw
Mar 13, 2025
Excellent museum, customer service let it down though - We have wanted to visit this museum for years now and eventually got the chance last week. What an amazing museum and it is probably one of the best ones we have been too for a while. The time tunnel was amazing, sooooo many things to look at lots of reminiscing on the walk through. It starts at Victorian times right through to present day, and the collection of items was just out of this world, Robert Opie honestly has some of the best collection you can ever hope to see. Especially liked the 40s collection and the 50s, our 15 year old daughter loved the 60s display and the radios and was really impressed with everything to look at The only thing which probably did let the visit down was the staff on the front desk, upon arrival they were just stood talking and wasn't very friendly or helpful. Once we paid we just got pointed to the tunnel and got told to start there, and then they carried on talking to each other. The girl did point to where toilets were and there was "another exhibition that way", but there was no knowledge given to what exhibition it was or anything like that, just simple pointing and not looking like they wanted to be there! The cafe was good but again the customer service was abit iffy and the girl looked a bit stressed out as she was the only one working there that day. Once we finished the museum we visited the shop at the entrance and again the staff were just huddled around the desk talking and didnt really seem interested in people being there. They weren't talking in English either which made things even more abit not very friendly, I'm sure it was Spanish. We spent quite a bit in the museum shop but there wasnt really any questions like did we enjoy our visit or anything, infact looked more of an inconvenience that we were even buying anything and interrupting the conversation. I do think that customer service needs to be worked on big time as I can imagine that some people will also probably feel the same as we did, a museum needs atmosphere and unfortunately this one although having an amazing collection , it just lacked that atmosphere.
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Mkd_travelmania
Feb 14, 2025
Fell short. Not worth it. - Well curated throughout history. However it should not be called “museum of brands” as is rather a hodgepodge collection” down memory lane of memorabilia. Not particularly of brands per se but just seems like stuff. As a graphic designer, I thought the emphasis would be more on branding, or logos, or even design… but it seemed like a mausoleum of well curated categories and just stuff. Not brands. just stuff. Maybe they should have a special section about design and pick a few very recognizable British brands that still exist today, and do a study about their evolution through the ages. It just fell flat for me. Sorry. Not worth your time or visit. Plus it’s far
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