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, 30th August 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
A display of the art work used to design the stage sets for the famous play. (Ending Soon Sat, 30th Aug)
An exhibition about the history of the long-lost Merton Prior, the remains of which now lie under a main road. (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Aug)
The Museum of Wimbledon
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
The official residence of TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall is open to the public for the summer. (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Aug)
Clarence House
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
During the Summer of 2014 an additional exhibition will commemorate 100 years of local film and TV. (Ending Soon Sat, 13th Sep)
Elstree and Borehamwood Museum
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)
This new display features brand new material including photographs and film recently collected on a series of expeditions to Afghanistan. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st Sep)
Exhibition of work by one of Germany's most important modernist graphic artists. (Ending Soon Sat, 27th Sep)
Kemistry Gallery
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 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)
Celebrating the fifty year career of Ray Davies as a songwriter, from The Kinks to his extensive work as a solo artist. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Sep)
Enduring War examines how people coped with life during the war: from moments of patriotic fervour to periods of anxious inactivity, shock and despair (Ending Soon Sun, 12th 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
An open-air exhibition which captures the eerie peace and beauty of First World War battlefields as they appear today. (Ending Soon Tue, 11th Nov)
St James's Park
Guildhall Library examines the personal accounts and experiences of individuals, including 'Boy', who served on the first submarines (Ending Soon Wed, 12th Nov)
An exhibition that explores the impact that hand crafted Victorian Shop signs had on the writings of Charles Dickens. (Ending Soon Sat, 15th 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)
