was run by the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA). Following the abolition of ILEA, the museum became a charitable trust in 1991. In 1992 a herb garden was opened on a formerly derelict site to the north of the building, partly funded again by the MPGA, which then awarded the herb garden its London Spade Award in 1992. The museum expanded in 1998 with the opening of a horseshoe-shaped extension designed by Branson Coates Architecture, providing space to add a 20th Century exhibition, shop and education rooms. In January 2018, the museum closed for an £18m development project, reopening in June 2021. Until this closure, the main permanent displays were a series of room settings furnished and decorated to show the main living spaces and elements of domestic life through the centuries, reflecting changes in society, behaviour, style and taste. The museum's change of name was announced in 2019. Since reopening, the museum has new galleries to "explore the concept of home through people's everyday experiences of making, keeping and being at home over the last 400 years". With the reopening of the refurbished and extended buildings in Summer 2021 the museum has 80 per cent more exhibition space for its collections and 50 per cent more public space, with its entrance now facing Hoxton station. The Financial Times correspondent praised the Museum's refurbishment and exhibits, stating: "There is nothing else quite like the Museum of the Home ... Other museums tend to dwell on the finest artefacts, the most famous chairs, lamps or most beautiful manufactured pieces. This is not that. This is about how even the humblest of homes reveals rich, unique stories, a recognition that culture is not only the domain of museums but of all of our front rooms, bedside tables and the snaps in photo albums (or on phones) of years of family dinners in the room with slightly ropey wallpaper, the stopped clock, those old plates and granny’s dining table." The Times dwelt on Michael McMillan's West Indian front room: "The stand-out set is the new West Indian front room circa 1976 with its glittery cushions, pineapple ice bucket and kitsch souvenirs from St Vincent. A proper home with cheering clutter ... The gardens are heavenly, the gift shop divine. It might be the best present-shopping spot in London." As part of its exhibits the museum also has a mission to rethink the way