Pop-Up Gallery & Shop
95 Berwick St, Soho, W1F 0DW
Monday - Sunday: 12 - 6pm
Celebrating the scenes, styles and sounds forged by young people over the last 100 years, the Museum of Youth Culture launches a pop-up shop and gallery at 95 Berwick Street, Carnaby.
A nod to the iconic record shop history of Carnaby and Soho, Berwick Street has been a hotspot for music and subculture since the 1940s. Museum of Youth Culture will include a vintage vinyl record shop selling eclectic rare vinyl from throughout the decades, across a breadth of genres from punk to garage to new wave, to house. Visitors will also be greeted with an Analogue Photo Booth as a youth culture throwback to yesteryear. Have your four moments of glory with this original Photo Booth, which uses photographic paper and chemical development processes while you wait.
current exhibition
Who's Culture?
Confused Culture x Dance Policy
Exhibition on until May 3rd
In collaboration with Blue, from confusedcu1ture, Dance Policy has curated an exhibition on youth culture across the UK and beyond. Each photographer bring their own perspective upon what ‘youth culture’ is.
Whether you are, literally, young or embody the attitudes of youth at an older age, this exhibition celebrated the culture of youth that influences our fashion, music and personas.
Previous Events
Broken In
Dr Martens x Original Shift
Exhibition on until Sunday April 16th
Dr. Martens have banded together with Original Shift for an anthology of stories, culture and community. A narration of Dr. Martens' heritage, the zine “Broken in” is a tribute to the subcultures and communities that have evolved alongside each other – with originals at their feet.
To celebrate the release of the zine, Dr. Martens and Original Shift have taken over the Museum of Youth Culture gallery at 95 Berwick Street with an exhibition celebrating the community.
The Batcave
40th Anniversary Exhibition
Exhibition on until Tuesday April 4th
Legendary club The Batcave will be returning to Soho for an exhibition celebrating the club that was seminal to the Goth scene. Featuring photographs by Derek Ridgers and Mick Mercer, influential photographers of youth culture, The Batcave exhibition recounts the birth of the London Goth scene in the early 80s.
With original props and excerpts from Young Limbs, a new book charting the club’s impact on post-punk, music and fashion, the exhibition is a celebration of this most enduring of youth subcultures. The opening night, harking back to The Batcave’s original Wednesday slot, includes talks by the clubs co-founder Jon Klein and resident DJ Hamish MacDonald.
Club Cowgirls Chats
Panel Discussion on Working Class Creatives
Wednesday March 29th, 2-9pm
Taking over the gallery for one night only, party collective Club Cowgirl will be hosting their first ever Club Cowgirl Chats delving into the experiences of working class voices in the music and creative industries. Bringing together an incredible panel featuring Michael Lawson (Resident Advisor), Shola Aleje (Lauren Laverns 6Music producer) and Ruby London (Daughters of Frank, producer and youth worker), led by Club Cowgirl founder Scarlett O’Malley. They will be asking what it means to be working class in the music and audio industries today and how the sector can be more inclusive.
Dance Your Way Home
Scanning Social and Talk
w/ Emma Warren & Brian Belle-Fortune
Saturday March 18th, 4-7pm
Calling all Junglists for the launch of Emma Warren's new book Dance Your Way Home as we host an afternoon Jungle and Drum n Bass. Bring along their photographs, flyers, ephemera and objects to be digitised for the museum’s collection and help us preserve history.
Following this, Emma Warren will be in conversation with Brian Belle-Fortune (author of All Crews) about her new book. You will be able to grab your copy to be signed!
Dance Floor Etiquette
with works from RAVE TO THE GRAVE
Solo exhibition by Yushy
February 6th - February 26th
The first solo exhibition from photographer Aiyush Pachnanda. Featuring work from the past 5 years, his early days capturing the Cardiff Drum’n’Bass scene to more recent work capturing the emergence of nightlife post lockdown.
Yushy’s photographs immerse you in the darkness, from sweaty basements to crammed warehouses vibrating from stacked speakers, we all change in the shadows of night. We let loose and let go, give in to desire and let temptation guide us back towards the flashing lights.
The exhibition will show images selected by Yushy himself as well as his own previously unseen video footage and ephemera from the days and nights documented.
Where Are The Young People?
Exhibition ft Mouth That Roars, Future Hackney, RISE.365
Opening Saturday January 21st, 12-7pm
On until February 5th
In our cultural narrative, young voices are often missing or spoken for. There is a feeling of not being heard, yet being seen in a specific way.
This exhibition explores the lives of young people in Hackney today, co-produced with them and giving back the mic. The photographs and short films provide a platform to voice their experiences as young Londoners. They speak to community and belonging, of discovering new and exciting things, of being their own unique selves.
Where Are The Youth? opens on Saturday January 21st, premiering new work created by Mouth That Roars and Future Hackney & RISE.365. The exhibition runs until Sunday February 5th.
This exhibition was made possible with funding from the New Stories New Audience grant from Association of Independent Museums, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.
At Home With The Furries
Talk by Tom Broadbent
Wednesday January 18th, 6.30pm
The screaming fans, angry protesters, hysteria in the papers - going to these gigs brought with it the teen kudos of causing outrage and panic amongst adults. The Noughties had barely begun and two American rockstars were courting controversy to win the top spot as the ultimate anti-hero.
In 2001 Marilyn Manson and Eminem took to the stage at London Docklands Arena a month apart. In the queue their teenage fans burn bibles, and brandish their middle finger, whilst their parents wonder what happened to their sweet children.
Join us for the launch of Neil Massey's latest zine Disposable Teens // The Way I Am, delving into the fandoms of Y2K's most controversial artists. Neil will speak to museum staffer and former nu-metal teen Lisa about the series and 00s subcultures.
‘At Home With The Furries’ and ‘At Home With Xavier Fox’, are two beautifully created journals about the furry community by photographer, picture editor and curator Tom Broadbent.
Tom has spent over 14 years getting to know the Furry fandom - who are ordinary individuals who identify and like to dress as a dog, a cat, a dragon or as animal characters that they’ve created. Tom will be talking about this subculture with special guests.
Disposable Teens // The Way I Am
Zine Launch & Talk with Neil Massey
Tuesday January 24th, 7 - 9pm