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: Wednesday, 14th August 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
A second exhibition by a Shoreditch street artist (the sort who sits on streets, not the sort that paints walls). (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Aug)
Howard Griffin Gallery
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
A display of the art work used to design the stage sets for the famous play. (Ending Soon Sat, 30th 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
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
Free
Blooming Marvellous
This life-sized knitted garden was created in 2011 by over 2,500 knitters and crocheters in Dorset. (Ending Soon Thu, 4th Sep)
Artsdepot
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)
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)
Exhibition looking at the impact of the First World War on local life and on Bromley's role in caring for casualties. (Ending Soon Fri, 26th Sep)
Bromley Museum
This major exhibition showcases more than 200 specimens, objects and life-size models. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Sep)
An exhibition about the often overlooked fact that 1.5 million soldiers fighting in WW1 came from the Indian sub-continent. (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)
This exhibition will explore changes to the city and the lives of Londoners as the country went to war. (Ending Soon Thu, 30th Oct)
Am exhibition of rarely seen contemporary and historical artworks featuring London's bridges. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Nov)
Museum of London Docklands
Guildhall Library examines the personal accounts and experiences of individuals, including 'Boy', who served on the first submarines (Ending Soon Wed, 12th Nov)
The steampunks are taking over the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Jan)
This exhibition will look at how the war affected the residents of Enfield - both in the trenches and on the home front. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Jan)
Enfield Museum
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)
