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, 12th March 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
Free
Czechia Now!
A fashion and photography exhibition resulting from an unconventional research trip around the Czech Republic. (Ending Soon Sun, 18th Mar)
Czech Centre London
Free
Daily Rites
Daily Rites examines modern humans and the ritualistic heart of our most apparently civilised behaviour. (Ending Soon Sun, 18th Mar)
Deptford Does Art
Free
The People's Forest
A major new contemporary visual art project which explores the history, politics, and people of London’s ancient woodland, Epping Forest. (Ending Soon Sun, 18th Mar)
Barbican Centre
This display looks at the changing roles of currency and exchange in communist states in the century since the 1917 Russian Revolution. (Ending Soon Sun, 18th Mar)
The British Museum
Explore the history behind the creation of the open spaces, gardens, and conservatory that are found across the Barbican Estate and Arts Centre. (Ending Soon Tue, 20th Mar)
Barbican Centre
The office of 2035: what will it look like and how will it support the way we will work? (Ending Soon Wed, 21st Mar)
Foyles
An exhibition of architecture from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Mar)
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
This exhibition features rare Soviet scores, texts and vinyl, and tells stories of Soviet composers’ complex negotiations with political power (Ending Soon Tue, 27th Mar)
Barbican Music Library
Creating sculptures and installations from caul fat and other animal organs, artist Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva draws attention to parts of the body we would sometimes rather forget. (Ending Soon Wed, 28th Mar)
Grant Museum of Zoology
This exhibition explores the past, present and future of transport and streets in The City. (Ending Soon Fri, 30th Mar)
The City Centre
Take a journey through the remarkable history of Indian innovation and discovery. (Ending Soon Sat, 31st Mar)
Science Museum
An ambitious survey of the technological and artistic development of photography in India. (Ending Soon Sat, 31st Mar)
Science Museum
£8
Nature Morte
Explore the transience of time and the problem of mortality as the 16th-century tradition of still life meets modern art. (Ending Soon Mon, 2nd Apr)
Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
Discover how van Eyck’s 'Arnolfini Portrait' was one of the beacons by which the Pre-Raphaelites forged a radical new style of painting (Ending Soon Mon, 2nd Apr)
The National Gallery
This exhibition includes objects of belief from societies around the world and through time. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Apr)
The British Museum
Original drawings of Winnie-the-Pooh have gone on display for the first time in nearly 40 years. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Apr)
Victoria and Albert Museum
An exhibition marking the 75th anniversary of the Beveridge report, which laid the foundation for the modern welfare state. (Ending Soon Fri, 13th Apr)
LSE Library
£8.50
Designs On Britain
Discover how much of the most iconic British design was produced by immigrants to this country. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Apr)
Jewish Museum London
A major exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of Ferrari, celebrating one of the great adventures of the industrial age.A major exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of Ferrari, celebrating one of the great adventures of the industrial age. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Apr)
The Design Museum
A new exhibition surveying the variety of postcards from all periods relating to Fulham Palace and exploring what they reveal about its history. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Apr)
Fulham Palace
Free
Imagined Futures
Consider speculative London futures as depicted in fiction past and present. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Apr)
Museum of London
Free
London Visions
Fantastical realities seen through the eyes of artists, architects and designers. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Apr)
Museum of London
Fathoming flow in the body, the sewer, the river and the city – a new work by Somerset House Studios artist Eloise Hawser. (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd Apr)
Somerset House
An exhibition that explores the impact that jazz had on Britons from 1918. (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd Apr)
Two Temple Place
The exhibition explores the ideas and skills that go into great underground structures and looks to a future where smart subterranean construction can contribute ever greater benefits. (Ending Soon Sat, 28th Apr)
The Building Centre
A large exhibition devoted to the music sensation. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Apr)
Southbank Centre
Free
Harmonics in Space
A room full of coloured shapes and sounds. It's art. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Apr)
Now Gallery
Painter of London life Ed Gray exhibits his paintings of everyday London life. (Ending Soon Mon, 30th Apr)
St Martin in the Fields
A rare opportunity to see stunning paintings, pastels, and drawings by leading French Impressionist Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas. (Ending Soon Mon, 7th May)
The National Gallery
£19.70
Impressionists in London
This exhibition presents captivating works by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro and their compatriots. (Ending Soon Mon, 7th May)
Tate Britain
This exhibition shows the rich material world of Charles II's court and the role of the arts in the re-establishment of the Stuart monarchy. (Ending Soon Fri, 11th May)
The Queen's Gallery
This display examines the background to the first soldier of African descent to be awarded the Victoria Cross. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th May)
Museum of London Docklands
Enter the realm of venomous creatures in this eye-opening exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th May)
Natural History Museum
This exhibition brings together, for the first time, the works of four of the most celebrated figures in art photography. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th May)
National Portrait Gallery
The only known self-portraits by Spanish master Murillo, reunited for the first time in over three hundred years. (Ending Soon Mon, 21st May)
The National Gallery
Touching on themes of countercultures, subcultures and minorities of all kinds, the show features the work of 20 photographers from the 1950s to the present day. (Ending Soon Sun, 27th May)
Barbican Centre
The UK’s first major exhibition of artists’ responses to war and conflict since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001. (Ending Soon Mon, 28th May)
Imperial War Museum
Learn about global efforts made after the Holocaust to find Zuzana Knobloch and millions of others like her. (Ending Soon Wed, 30th May)
Wiener Library
This exhibition commemorates the centenary of this momentous battle and the huge medical and human impact of wounding during and beyond the First World War. (Ending Soon Thu, 31st May)
Science Museum
Free
Fatberg!
A display of the last remaining parts of the Whitechapel fatberg. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Jul)
The Museum of London
This exhibition places William Harvey where he truly belongs: at the heart of the history of medicine, science and our modern understanding of the human body and life itself. (Ending Soon Thu, 26th Jul)
Royal College Of Physicians
Discover the history of Bridge House Estates, the organisation that oversaw the entire construction of Tower Bridge over a century ago and continues to maintain it to this day. (Ending Soon Sat, 1st Sep)
Tower Bridge Exhibition
An award-winning exhibition exploring the endless ways in which colour shapes our world. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Oct)
Horniman Museum
A display of more than 200 original illustrations of the nature of the British Isles. (Ending Soon Fri, 2nd Nov)
Natural History Museum
Free
Votes for Women
A display featuring iconic objects from the museum’s vast Suffragette collection, including Emmeline Pankhurst’s hunger strike medal. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Jan)
The Museum of London
Free
Dream On
An exhibition which explores dreams, the unconscious and an imaginary world between sleep and wakefulness. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Jan)
V&A Museum of Childhood