Kilburn, situated in North-West London, is a patch of land spanning three boroughs, Camden, Brent and Westminster. Kilburn has many different identities and voices. Kilburn is a welcoming neighbourhood that has evolved into a multicultural realm, where diverse identities intersect amidst a backdrop of constant change.  

The use of the word Museum is a provocation that challenges traditional notions of institutionalised spaces. The addition of Lab suggests that museums can be participated self-determined entities that prioritize what is valuable and meaningful to their respective communities.

By documenting and celebrating the diverse narratives that shape our community, the Kilburn Museum Lab seeks to engage the community actively, fostering understanding and appreciation for our cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity, and sharing the myriads of hidden stories that contribute to shaping our collective sense of place.

The Kilburn Museum is a cultural space with a strong community focus, dedicated to positively influencing Kilburn’s social fabric. It serves as an agent for change to empower collective ownership of cultural heritage and shape future outcomes.

The museum is a work in progress, devoid of a fixed plan or plot, evolving with the collective vision of its community.


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Caren Owen - K2K






So the Radio was set up as a community engagement platform.


We’re in the K2K Radio formerly Kilburn to
Kensal radio studio here in the heart of Kilburn at Metroland Studios.
We started 11 years ago. As a legacy project for South Kilburn Studios, a similar project to this. I was running South Kilburn Studios and one day Max Graef walked in and said I’d love a studio and I said, what do you do? He said I set up radio stations.
I said I’d love a radio station, so we got him a space and we’ve gotKilburn 2 Kensal Radio.

At that time I was running a lot of projects in the area, the Studios, Kilburn Festival, and community events in Queens Park, and it was always a challenge to market it, to get volunteers, to get people to come to events and to find community and connections.

So the Radio was set up as a community engagement platform, a way for people to come in and build their skills or have a mental health break or find community or have a place to go to express their creativity or to support their careers or personal development. We’re still running 11 years later.

We started at the Albert which was near Queens Transcript from a conversation at K2K in November 2023. Park station, now a block of flats - and then we moved to Southfield Studio, to the Granville and then, earlier this year in May 2023, we moved into Metroland. We’re going through a metamorphosis.

We’ve always allowed anyone to come in and get free training, and access really affordable space, and we’re looking at how we can then as well as being a broadcasting platform, give people space to record podcasts and to amplify voices, to take people’s voices to the next level. And we’ve had so many people come through the doors, it really started as a family, as real people who know each other’s kids, and share Christmas dinner.

We intended it to be a safe place, a sense of belonging, a place where people found connection and family who could express themselves creatively, this will always be a community-owned asset.

Caren Owen
K2K









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