_{Mudlark Monika Buttling-Smith examines a green glass poison bottle. © Monika Buttling-Smith / London Museum}

Tickets are now on sale for the Museum of London Docklands’ highly anticipated exhibition Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s Lost Treasures, which opens in just over a month’s time.

Twice a day, the River Thames dramatically recedes to expose a landscape unknown to most Londoners. Among the mud and the stones, the tides reveal remarkable objects from every era of London’s rich past.

_{Neck of a stoneware Bartmann bottle, 1500s – 1600s, half-buried on the foreshore. © Alessio Checconi / London Museum}

The exhibition features over 350 mudlarked objects, from intimate personal items to historical relics, with many on display for the first time. Step into the shoes of a mudlark and explore the foreshore, uncover artefacts and learn how they identify and curate their personal collections.

The journey ends with a space for reflection on the mysteries of the moon and the tides that make mudlarking possible, leaving visitors with a powerful, contemplative memory of their time uncovering the secrets of the Thames.

Blending archaeology with contemporary art and digital experiences, Secrets of the Thames offers fresh perspectives on London and all its people – past and present.

_{Top: Viking-era iron dagger known as a scramasax, c.1000. Bottom: Late Medieval spectacle frames, c.1600. Both © London Museum.}

More information / tickets available here. Secrets of the Thames is open from 4 Apr 2025 – 1 Mar 2026.