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Exciting new galleries to explore! 

Click the links below and to the right to discover some of the wonderful galleries unveiled in 2010. You'll soon want to visit Valence House Museum to see them for yourself!

A collection highlight is the famous 4000 year-old Dagenham Idol, currently here on loan.

Over 130 works from the Valence House art collection can now be viewed on the BBC Your Paintings website.

Visit the Valence House Facebook page, at www.facebook.com/valencehouse

The museum curator leads free gallery tours on certain Saturdays. Check the Heritage events list for dates.

Archaeology and Barking Abbey 

Roman coffin from Ripple Road, Barking 
Earliest settlers and a rich and powerful abbey

People and communities 

Valence House gallery 
Our social history, with lots of fun things to see and do

Fanshawe family portraits 

Fanshawe portrait 
A wonderful collection spanning four centuries

Riverside industries 

Dagenham breach map 
From Barking's fishing fleet to Samuel Williams and Fords

Barking New Town 

Bottles from the R Whites factory, Barking 
Goodbye fishing, hello factories

Village life in times gone by 

Dagenham Village model 
When Dagenham and Chadwell Heath were fields and farms
Valence House and model of the Dagenham Idol

Valence House Museum

 
 

Valence House Museum

Becontree Avenue

Dagenham

RM8 3HT

 

Phone: 020 8227 5222

Fax: 020 8593 6177

Email: valencehousemuseum@lbbd.gov.uk