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Bramah Tea And Coffee Museum, London

(Please note, this museum is currently closed however there are plans to relocate the collection to a site off Borough High Street. We will update this page as information becomes available.)

Taking shelter from a rainstorm during a visit to London in 2005, I went into the Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum in Southwark, London, and had a cup of Broken Orange Pekoe. The menu described the "British tea ceremony," boiling the water, milk in afterwards, preferably from a little jug. Pouring milk from my little china jug it was clear that there was still an element of ceremony about British tea drinking.

The British tea ceremony is not as formal as some, but remains more formal than others. In Britain there is nothing like the Japanese tea ceremony, but then you don't naturally think of Americans, or Australians drinking their tea from china tea sets. Between Japan on the one hand, and somewhere like the United States on the other, tea drinking in Britain sits halfway along the spectrum of ritual. Tea drinking is very revealing in that sense.

At the Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum there is a tea shop where you can try many different types of tea or coffee, and a small museum with a range of items relating to the history of tea and coffee drinking.

 

 

 

Opening Times: currently closed. We contacted the museum in 2010, and at that time there were plans to re-open. But that has not happened yet. Currently there are plans to relocate to a site off Borough High Street.

Address: Bramah Museum of Tea and Coffee, 40 Southwark Street, London SE1 1UN

Directions: The museum is at the junction at Southwark Street and Thrale Street. Click here for an interactive map centred on the Bramah Museum of Tea and Coffee.

Access: there is level access to the shop and the museum.

Contact:

telephone: 020 7403 5650

fax: 020 7407 5388

e-mail: bramah@teaandcoffeemuseum.com

web site: www.bramahmuseum.co.uk