Welcome to the IanVisits alternative guide to London.
Lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random geeky miscellany.
This is quite an old listings page, did you want: Friday, 14th June 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
Photo exhibition of city scenes blended to include day and night time images. (Ending Soon Sat, 14th Jun)
Rook and Raven
Showcasing built and unbuilt projects, it looks the many faces of British architecture around the world. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Jun)
The roof of John Lewis on Oxford Street has been converted into a public garden. (Ending Soon Fri, 20th Jun)
John Lewis
Swords and axes, coins and jewellery, hoards, amulets and religious images. (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd Jun)
An exhibition tracing The Architectural Review’s graphic and scholarly evolution under the direction of Hubert de Cronin Hastings, (Ending Soon Sat, 28th Jun)
Work
An exhibition full of the many different ways artists have pictured London's most iconic bridge in its 120 year history. (Ending Soon Mon, 30th Jun)
A special exhibition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. (Ending Soon Mon, 30th Jun)
Valence House
An exhibition that explores the impact of the car on England's landscape and celebrates the buildings of motoring history that today are valued. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Jul)
A showcase of works and archival material from The East London Group of Artists. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Jul)
The Nunnery
Free
Subnature
Subnature is an installation of sculptures and prints set amongst the skeletons and specimens in jars of the Grant Museum. (Ending Soon Sat, 19th Jul)
An exhibition about three 18th and 19th century explorers who lived in Richmond. (Ending Soon Sat, 26th Jul)
Museum of Richmond
This exhibition traces the British comics tradition back through classic 1970s titles including 2000AD, Action and Misty to 19th-century illustrations (Ending Soon Tue, 19th Aug)
Fossils, skeletons and huge models tower above you in a mighty display of tusks and trunks. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Sep)
Photography exhibition showing life in the far north of the planet. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Sep)
Free
Dream, Draw, Work
This exhibition explores the materials, draughtsmanship and design practices of Shaw and his small but brilliant staff. (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Sep)
Celebrate the arrival of spring with wriggly caterpillars, beautiful butterflies and majestic moths in the return of this outdoor butterfly hou (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Sep)
Free
The Prefab Museum
Ahead of the demolition of the estate to replace it with modern buildings, a museum of the history of post-war prefab homes has been set up. (Ending Soon Sat, 27th Sep)
17 Meliot Road
This major exhibition showcases more than 200 specimens, objects and life-size models. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Sep)
An art exhibition that explores royal patronage and taste in the reigns of George I and George II. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Oct)
The exhibition will include political and joke cartoons, comic postcards and cigarette cards, trench publications by serving soldiers, books, comics. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Oct)
The steampunks are taking over the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Jan)
