Going to the Geffrye Museum felt like trespassing. For a few minutes, the gardens were my own secret gardens, with the carpet of fallen leaves making them look even more untouched. The spell was broken when other people came, but it must have looked funny, the way I moved about so carefully when I was alone.
Once almhouses (homes for the elderly poor) founded in 1714 from a bequest from Sir Robert Geffrye, the museum features rooms modelled after the interiors of houses of "the middling sort" from the 17th century onwards. The interactive displays are interesting and the reading rooms are really nice places for reading.
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