Museum of Immigration and Diversity explained

Museum of Immigration and Diversity should not be confused with Migration Museum, London.

The Museum of Immigration and Diversity is a museum at 19 Princelet Street in Spitalfields, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England.^{[1] [2]} The Grade II* listed building in which the museum is located was a house built in 1719 for the Huguenot silk merchant Peter Abraham Ogier.

The house went through a number of stages, the building was converted to a synagogue in 1869. The building remained in use until the 1970s, when the congregation had moved out of the area. It has now been passed to a charity, The Spitalfields Centre, set up in 1983 to preserve the building and develop the museum of immigration and diversity.

Due to the fragility of the building, the museum only opens for prebooked group visits.^{[3] [4]} It has been given £30,000 by English Heritage for repairs and is on the Buildings at Risk Register.^[5]

See also

• History of the Jews in England
• List of former synagogues in the United Kingdom
• Rodinsky's Room, book about the occupant of a room above the synagogue

External links

• • 19 Princelet Street website

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Museum Of Immigration And Diversity . www.museumslondon.org . Museums London . 25 November 2023 . en.
2. Web site: Wignall . Katie . Inside 19 Princelet Street - Spitalfields' Unique Museum . Look Up London Tours . 25 November 2023 . 14 September 2017.
3. Web site: Museum of Immigration and Diversity opens to the public for Refugee Week . Museums Association . 25 November 2023 . 21 June 2017.
4. Web site: 19 Princelet Street . www.19princeletstreet.org.uk . https://web.archive.org/web/20231101044019/https://www.19princeletstreet.org.uk/ . 1 November 2023.
5. Web site: East End history. 2007-08-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070810084456/http://www.eastlondonhistory.com/museum%20of%20diversity.htm . 2007-08-10.