The Brixton Museum

The Brixton Museum is a portable display space and collecting device to record and share individual memories and the communal heritage of Brixton. Its design recalls the street market traders trolleys and the lost canopies of Electric Avenue. The Museum offers people the opportunity to contribute their own objects and stories, which are represented through traces and recordings. It also offers the opportunity to view these everyday objects and texts, which relate to the ‘heritage’ of brixton, whilst major regeneration projects are changing the face of the area and the council’s ‘Townscape Heritage Initiative’ selects what aspects of the built fabric will be kept.