Visiting London Canal Museum

When visiting the London Canal Museum it will helps you get to know London's waterways and also particularly the Regent's Canal which it backs on to. The London Canal Museum building had a previous life as an ice warehouse for ice imports from Norway before mechanical ice production. In this Museum you will also find interesting displays about ice and ice-cream as well as the chance to see the only surviving ice well in London.

London Canal Museum

At the London Canal Museum you can see inside a narrowboat cabin, you can learn about the history of London’s canals, about the cargoes carried, the people who lived and worked on the waterways and the horses that pulled their boats. This is an unique waterways museum is housed in a former ice warehouse built in about 1862-3 for Carlo Gatti, the famous ice cream maker and features the history of the ice trade and ice cream as well as the canals.

Visiting London Canal Museum

There are two themes in this unusual London museum. London's canals have a fascinating past and you will learn not only how they came to be built but about the lives of the workers, the cargoes, horses and how canals work. The London Canal Museum is first waterways museum and foremost, but also an industrial museum telling the story of the ice industry in London. It is the only London museum of inland waterways and is situated at King's Cross, an accessible central location.

London Canal Museum Front Door