London Museum of Water & Steam

Who we are

The London Museum of Water & Steam tells the story of London’s water supply, the site, its people and the amazing pumping engines that helped to make London the city it is today.

Today the Museum is at the heart of its community, working in partnership with community groups and welcoming many local residents.

The Museum is governed by The Kew Bridge Engines Trust and Water Supply Museum Limited (the Trust) represented by a board of trustees (the board). The Trust is a charity and we operate as a company limited by guarantee. Our governing document outlines in full the details of how the Trust and its board operate, and the provisions for how we work with the Trust’s members. The board comprises up to 10 trustees, including a designated Chair, Vice-Chair and Finance Director and Company Secretary. Trustees are appointed initially for a four-year term, with the possibility of a second term, subject to member approval in general meeting.

Our charitable objects are:

(1) To operate and maintain the London Museum of Water & Steam, in order to advance education of the public in understanding and appreciating the social, economic and technological history of London's water supply, and the role clean water played in making London the city it is today. 

(2) To preserve and conserve for the public benefit, the site of the Kew Bridge Waterworks, its historic buildings and its collection of engines and other artefacts associated with the history of London's water supply: and

(3) To educate the public in other subjects of industrial archaeological importance.