The Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum was a museum in southeast London

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, England

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. It was the world's first museum completely devoted to the history of tea

Tea

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 and coffee

Coffee

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. It covered 400 years of commercial and social history of two important commodities in the world, since their arrival in Europe

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 from Africa

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 and the Far East

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The museum was opened by Edward Bramah in 1992, 40 years after he had first had the idea. It was formerly at Butler's Wharf

Butler's Wharf

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. It is now located at 40 Southwark Street

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 in SE1

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, very close to London Bridge station

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 and Borough Market

Borough Market

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. The museum is open daily and the facilities include a tearoom serving coffee and tea.

Edward Bramah died aged 76 at Christchurch, Dorset

Christchurch, Dorset

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on 15 January 2008. Despite his illness, Bramah had been working on a book which was to be called "Britain's Tea Heritage".

The museum closed, according to its website for redevelopment and/or possible relocation until 2009. However, it was still closed as of April 2011, occupied by a builders merchant high street shop.