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: Saturday, 15th June 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
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
A week long campaign of talks in the medieval St Augustine's Tower (Ending Soon Fri, 20th Jun)
St Augustine's Tower
Swords and axes, coins and jewellery, hoards, amulets and religious images. (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd Jun)
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)
This exhibition presents a variety of unusual items never shown before, carefully selected to illustrate the scope and diversity of the collection. (Ending Soon Fri, 11th Jul)
Bank of England Museum
A showcase of works and archival material from The East London Group of Artists. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Jul)
The Nunnery
An exhibition exploring the Jewish experience of the First World War. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Aug)
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)
An exhibition of art works created for hospitals designed to have a therapeutic effect on their residents. (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Aug)
Hall Place & Gardens
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)
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)
Discover the impact on London life and the surprising role London’s bus drivers and their buses played on the Western Front. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Mar)
