Urban treasures: Museum of London unveils its new look

This magnificent 1928 lift from London's Selfridges department store, is a luxurious example of Art Deco design. It is on display at the Museum of London.
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A woman admires a collection of 18th-century dresses and Philip Treacy hats at the Museum of London's new wing, Galleries of Modern London.
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The Lord Mayor's coach in 1757, on show in the new gallery wing.
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A room is papered in sections of the Victorian social campaigner Charles Booth's Maps Descriptive of London Poverty. First completed in 1889, they were coloured street by street to indicate poverty and wealth.
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This display is dedicated to the revolution in design and printing during the 18th century.
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More of the museum's gallery displays showing key figures from evolution of the 18th-century printing press.
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An illuminated interactive map filling one room shows the history of the Thames.
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A range of guides to London.
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The three-dimensional model was made by artists Tom Hunter and James McKinnon in 1994 as a replica of a row of houses in Ellingfort Road in Hackney. Nicknamed The Ghetto, the street was squatted by a community of artists who faced regular threats of eviction from the local council.
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This 2009 artwork, EnTWINed, by Amrit and Rabindra Singh, was created in response to two paintings by Henry Nelson O’Neil, dating from 1857 and 1858, of British soldiers leaving London for the first Indian war of independence, and returning home again.
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A model of the London Eye forms part of an interactive display at the Museum of London.
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An interactive exhibit based in a distinctive British red telephone box.
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'Protein Man' placard by Stanley Green. From 1968 until his death in 1993, Londoner Green could often be seen on Oxford Street campaigning against the dangers of eating protein.
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