1. Access key 1 to the homepage
  2. Access key 2 to What is the City?
  3. Access key 3 to What to see
  4. Access key 4 to Where to stay
  5. Access key 5 to Where to eat and drink
  6. Access key 6 to Where to shop
  7. Access key 7 to Venues for hire
  8. Access key 8 to Getting around
  9. Access key 9 to Practical info
  10. Skip navigation to content

City of London Information Centre
St Paul's Churchyard,
London, EC4M 8BX

> City map
Photo: Exhibit at the Clink Prison Museum
Photo: Exterior view of the Clink Prison Museum (courtesy of Wikipedia) Photo: Blue plaque outside the Clink Prison Museum (courtesy of Wikipedia) Photo: Image of iron bars over windows
CLICK TO ENLARGE

Clink Prison Museum

1 Clink Street

SE1 9DG


See map >>


T: 020 7403 0900

E: museum@clink.co.uk

W: www.clink.co.uk


Visitor Information

Open: 10am-6pm Mon-Fri
10am-9pm Sat-Sun

If you were a Londoner of "incorrect faith" you may once have been banged up in the brutal Clink prison in Southwark – not an appealing prospect. Now standing on the site of the jail which held prisoners from the early Tudor years until it burned down during the Gordon Riots of 1780, is the Clink Prison Museum. Visitors can discover the history of Southwark and view some rather grisly torture devices. Waxworks of debtors, heretics and other undesirables who were incarcerated here, along with interactive displays, help tell the story one of the first British prisons. The museum can be booked for private parties.

Accessibility
Artsline rate the Clink Prison Museum as having "extremely limited access for wheelchair users and some services or facilites for sensory impaired people." Read more.