1920s and all that jazz

After a two-year break in its exhibition programme, the Museum of London celebrates the opening of its new Linbury Gallery (part of a £33 million revamp) with an exhibition about the influences that shaped the capital during the Jazz Age.

The 400 exhibits are drawn from art, architecture, fashion, politics, film and popular culture, and they include Anna Pavlova's ballet costumes, Selfridges' golden lifts and the gates of the 1929 Firestone Factory.

While we remember the decade as one of flamboyance and excess, political influences were bubbling under the surface, a fact highlighted with letters from Gandhi and a collection from a weird cult alternative to the Boy Scouts called The Kindred Of The Kibbo Kift.

There's also insight into topical debates of the time - Americanisation of Britain and the public v private debate over ownership of London Transport. No change there then.

Museum of London London Wall, EC2 (0870 444 3850). Mon-Sat 10am-5.50pm, Sun noon-5.50pm. Ends Sun 18 Jul, 2004, £5 (unlimited return visits), concs £3. www.museumoflondon.org.uk.