“Travel Things Museum is an innovative, experimental, and interactive cultural arts
project open to all. We’re light and fluffy! Everybody is welcome to join the exchange
of ideas to learn about different societies in a fun, friendly, and safe environment.”
About Travel Things Museum
The Travel Things Museum is a London-based non-profit organization dedicated to global travel, culture, and discovery. Our mission is to educate and inspire by exploring not just the diversity of places, peoples, and cultures, but also the connections that unite them. Through carefully curated exhibits of unique objects encountered on journeys around the world, we bring these stories to life.
We utilise both analogue and digital media to produce regular publications and host in-person exhibits, seminars, and talks—both in London and internationally—offering immersive experiences that foster understanding and curiosity.
our Philosophy
Our love for art, design, and cultural exchange shapes our philosophy just as much as our passion for travel. We believe that through exploration, both physical and intellectual, we gain deeper insights into the world and ourselves.
As we journey forward, we acknowledge that— to paraphrase Sir Isaac Newton—we stand on the shoulders of giants. Our philosophical influences are as diverse as our community. One such influence is Thomas Fuller, the 17th-century English clergyman and historian, who wisely observed, “Travel far, know much.” Another is Mark Twain, the father of American literature, who famously noted that travel broadens the mind and is “fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
We also draw inspiration from Thomas Merton, the 20th-century Trappist monk, who said, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” These words resonate deeply with us, as we believe that art and travel together open new perspectives, foster self-discovery, and encourage meaningful connections across cultures.
What We Do
Travel Things collections
Document travel experiences
Showcases and exhibitions
Talks and seminars, in-person and online
Annual publication
Travel Things Museum concept store
Exhibitions
Travel Things Museum – Special Showcase
Beyond Borders × Urban Harvest
Clifton House, Shoreditch 13-21 Sept. 2025 | 11-9 pm
Join us for our London Design Festival 2025 special showcase—a journey into the weird, wonderful, and unexpectedly meaningful objects discovered through travel.
This year’s exhibition, Beyond Borders, celebrates how everyday items can tell extraordinary stories of culture, identity, and shared human experience. With Curator Jill as your guide, you’ll cross borders and uncover new ways of seeing the world.
Concept Store
Travel Things Museum offers a range of affordable, attractive, and quirky items from around the world for purchase at our online Travel Things Museum concept store as well as in-person at our exhibitions and other events.
We are a non-profit and all shop proceeds are ploughed back into Travel Things Museum to fund our operations.
OUR youtube CHANNEL
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Your Help & Support
As a community interest company, Travel Things Museum relies on public donations to fund its operations. With this in mind, we invite you to become a patron of Travel Things Museum.
If you are interested in supporting the museum’s work and development, becoming a catalyst for our future growth and helping us to develop a community-based cultural arts project, please click on the link below:
