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: Tuesday, 8th October 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden will explore the changing character of the garden in art from the 16th to the early 20th century. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Oct)
A Soho sex shop created entirely from felt. (Ending Soon Sat, 17th Oct)
Scissorhand Barbershop
An outdoor touring exhibition to showcase Historic England's photographic Archive. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Oct)
The Scoop
An exhibition of the music culture that dominated during WW1 (Ending Soon Sat, 31st Oct)
Royal Academy of Music Museum
This display brings twelve of Tate’s Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite works face to face with a rare collection of their three-dimensional doubles. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
Alice in Cartoonland celebrates Alice’s many misadventures at the hands of cartoonists, caricaturists and satirists, animators and graphic artists. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
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Plantastic
Explore the wonderful world of plants on a massive scale. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
This display explores the evidence we have for gladiators, criminals and soldiers in Roman London. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
An exhibition about the UK’s first female press photographer, and her work in the 1910s. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
Museum of London Docklands
Free
The Alice Look
The display shows how Alice in Wonderland has been adopted and adapted across the world in all walks of life, (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
V&A Museum of Childhood
A display of giant animals made from Lego set in among the real animal residents of the wetland centre. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Nov)
Explore contemporary manga’s diverse appeal through works by three of the medium’s leading artists. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Nov)
A temporary exhibition which looks at how the Battle of Waterloo was fought and won. (Ending Soon Sat, 28th Nov)
The Guards Museum
Explore almost three decades of the estate’s construction from the mid-1950s to 1982. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Nov)
A collection of never before seen film stills that will give fans a behind the scenes peek at life on set of the world-renowned film series. (Ending Soon Mon, 30th Nov)
Crossrail Place
Free
This is Nursing
Take a look back at the last 200 years in nursing, from concerned amateur to compassionate expert. (Ending Soon Mon, 30th Nov)
Royal College of Nursing
This special display brings together original weapons and armour dating from the time of the battle, (Ending Soon Tue, 1st Dec)
Explore the development of the artistic technique of metalpoint from the Renaissance to the present, (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Dec)
An exhibition examining the history of postcards in Britain, with particular focus on the depiction of Hampstead and local landmarks (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Dec)
Free
Glass Delusions
The exhibition centres on the use of glass as a material, its cultural significance and a psychological phenomenon of humans believing they are glass. (Ending Soon Sat, 19th Dec)
An exhibition by the Peace Pledge Union with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund Looking at Religion, Politics, Work Camps and Prison. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Dec)
An exhibition of around 40 objects showing Royal power, including the never previously exhibited great seal of King John (Ending Soon Wed, 23rd Dec)
The exhibition traces the evolution of Chinese export fan design from its emergence toward the end of the seventeenth century to its eventual decline. (Ending Soon Thu, 31st Dec)
Iconic Costumes from the worlds of Film, TV and Theatre (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Jan)
Old Truman Brewery
This major exhibition focuses on the myth and reality of the ‘fallen woman’ in Victorian Britain. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Jan)
An exhibition that showcases centuries of work by the Corporation of Trinity House to help sailors navigate safely at sea, (Ending Soon Mon, 4th Jan)
The Great Chronicle of London illustrates how the news of Henry’s campaign was sent back to London. (Ending Soon Thu, 7th Jan)
This exhibition explores how British architects such as Inigo Jones and Lord Burlington turned Palladianism into a national style. (Ending Soon Sat, 9th Jan)
An exhibition of Brangwyn's concern for Belgium, and the powerful propgaganda posters he created to support the war effort. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Jan)
Come on a journey tracing what it means to be Celtic. The more you look, the more you’ll see… (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Jan)
Two generations gave voice to their experience in lengthy written memoirs, in diaries and letters, and most unusually in photographs and drawings. (Ending Soon Thu, 25th Feb)
Exhibition about how Churchill’s fascination with science led to the scientific achievements that helped Britain win the Second World War. (Ending Soon Tue, 1st Mar)
A collection of mesmerising Natural History images by artist Jim Naughten, brought to three-dimensional life through stereoscopic photography. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Mar)
Discover the dramatic story of how Russia turned the dream of space travel into a reality and became the first nation to explore space. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Mar)
Free
Project Tobong
Project Tobong seeks to preserve and reinvigorate the ritual of historic storytelling and performance. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Apr)
A display of winning photographs from an annual astrophotographer competition. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Jun)
An exhibition of early aerial photography by a firm based on Nth London. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Sep)
