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"Hopefully they can look at a new design that incorporates the pub. Some displays on the evolution og pub interiors might be good, especially if you could actually buy a pint there."

Firstly the rejection means the building money is lost (it was time limited) so there is unlikely to be any development now.

Secondly if you want a museum of pub interiors then set one up, but the Geffrye is not that it is a museum of DOMESTIC interiors. You might as well ask why the Natural History Museum doesn't have a display of London Buses.

As for the former Lansdowne pub it does not have any surviving interior features anyway, they were ripped out years ago, and architecturally it is a nonentity.

A chance for a great new museum building has been lost largely due to the uninformed rantings of outsiders, not locals. This is a deprived part of London where the Geffrye serves a local community that (despite the pup protestors, many of whom have never even been near Hoxton) tends to love the museum and its wonderful work. Just ask them.