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: Sunday, 4th August 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
Display of photographs by legendary John Hedgecoe, and includes the most reproduced photo in history. (Ending Soon Tue, 5th Aug)
Royal College of Art
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)
A display of over fifty key objects featuring the quirky, colourful and often charming design style that emerged from the 1950s in the Soviet Union. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Aug)
GRAD: Gallery for Russian Arts and Design
Free
Garibaldi in London
This exhibition explores Garibaldi’s extraordinary impact on mid Victorian society. (Ending Soon Fri, 29th Aug)
The Library and Museum of Freemasonry
An exhibition of photographs looking at interactions between British soldiers and the Italian civilian population. (Ending Soon Fri, 29th Aug)
Museum of the Order of St John
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
The roof of John Lewis on Oxford Street has been converted into a public garden. (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Aug)
John Lewis
Free
The Cornershop
A derelict shop has been filled with over 4,000 handmade felt versions of familiar grocery items (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Aug)
Lucy Sparrow
Fossils, skeletons and huge models tower above you in a mighty display of tusks and trunks. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Sep)
Drawings by 10 artists on the topic of the changing landscapes of cities. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Sep)
Photography exhibition showing life in the far north of the planet. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Sep)
Photographic display of works by the artist where he has covered people in confectionery and deserts. (Ending Soon Thu, 11th Sep)
Gazelli Art House
An immersive exhibition of art, design, film, music and videogames (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 exhibition about the 100,000 Jews who fought for Germany during WW1. (Ending Soon Wed, 8th Oct)
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)
Am exhibition of rarely seen contemporary and historical artworks featuring London's bridges. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Nov)
Museum of London Docklands
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)
