Outsites

Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) staff work with Museum of London curators to provide permanent ‘outsites’ – specially commissioned small displays of archaeological findings – at our clients’ properties. These may be display panels and/or exhibits such as fragments of Roman mosaics, Saxon cooking pots, Tudor pewter spoons or Victorian clay pipes in enclosed glass display cases.

Recent examples include an outsite for the new headquarters of Cazenove and Company Ltd at Northgate House near Moorgate in the City, where MoLAS excavations discovered important evidence of Roman London’s early pottery industry.

Archaeological discoveries at the new Merrill Lynch Financial Centre, Giltspur Street, EC1 (Merrill Lynch Europe PLC), including evidence of early Roman buildings and the defences of Roman and medieval London, are now described in a series of explanatory panels near the preserved remains of the Roman city wall and a medieval bastion.

MoLAS has also produced displays for the Jubilee Line Extension Project (London Underground Limited), the Royal Opera House, the Spitalfields Development Group, and many other projects and clients.

Past outsite projects

Use the links on the left to see examples of past outsite projects the Museum of London was involved with.