Common questions about Museum of London's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Museum of London a good charity? +
Museum of London scores 80 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 50% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Museum of London a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Museum of London as a registered charity (charity number 1139250). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1139250&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Museum of London's charity number? +
Museum of London's charity number is 1139250. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Museum of London's charity rating? +
Museum of London scores 80 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Museum of London have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Museum of London. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Museum of London? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 50% of Museum of London's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Museum of London's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 5% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 5% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Museum of London. Museum of London's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 27 employees paid more than £60,000, including 7 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (2 employees). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Museum of London receive? +
Museum of London reported £129m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Museum of London's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-30). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Museum of London based? +
Museum of London's registered contact address is in London (EC2Y 5HN). It tells the regulator it operates in London, with a focus on heritage.
How much is Museum of London's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Museum of London's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 27 employees paid more than £60,000, including 7 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (2 employees). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Museum of London's money come from? +
Museum of London reported £129m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were other income £107m (83%), donations and legacies £17m (13%), investments £2.5m (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £175k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Museum of London? +
The register records Museum of London as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Museum of London's trustees paid? +
Museum of London's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Museum of London previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Museum of London: Mol.
When was Museum of London registered as a charity? +
Museum of London was entered on the register on 2 December 2010.
How does CharityCompare score Museum of London? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Museum of London's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Museum of London's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.