Welcome to the IanVisits alternative guide to London.
Lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random geeky miscellany.

 

 

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Displayed in date order by how soon they close.

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
EC2Y 8DS
2018-03-26
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
WC1E 6DE
2018-03-26
This exhibition explores the past, present and future of transport and streets in The City. (Ending Soon Fri, 30th Mar)

The City Centre
EC2V 5AR
2018-03-26
Take a journey through the remarkable history of Indian innovation and discovery. (Ending Soon Sat, 31st Mar)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2018-03-26
An ambitious survey of the technological and artistic development of photography in India. (Ending Soon Sat, 31st Mar)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2018-03-26
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
EC2V 5AE
2018-03-26
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
WC2N 5DN
2018-03-26
This exhibition includes objects of belief from societies around the world and through time. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Apr)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2018-03-26
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
SW7 2RL
2018-03-26
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
WC2A 2HD
2018-03-26
Discover how much of the most iconic British design was produced by immigrants to this country. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Apr)

Jewish Museum London
NW1 7NB
2018-03-26
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
W8 6AG
2018-03-26
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
SW6 6EA
2018-03-26
Consider speculative London futures as depicted in fiction past and present. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Apr)

Museum of London
EC2Y 5HN
2018-03-26
Fantastical realities seen through the eyes of artists, architects and designers. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Apr)

Museum of London
EC2Y 5HN
2018-03-26
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
WC2R 1LA
2018-03-26
An exhibition that explores the impact that jazz had on Britons from 1918. (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd Apr)

Two Temple Place
WC2R 3BD
2018-03-26
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
WC1E 7BT
2018-03-26
A large exhibition devoted to the music sensation. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Apr)

Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX
2018-03-26
A room full of coloured shapes and sounds. It's art. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Apr)

Now Gallery
SE10 0SQ
2018-03-26
Painter of London life Ed Gray exhibits his paintings of everyday London life. (Ending Soon Mon, 30th Apr)

St Martin in the Fields
WC2N 4JH
2018-03-26
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
WC2N 5DN
2018-03-26
This exhibition presents captivating works by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro and their compatriots. (Ending Soon Mon, 7th May)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2018-03-26
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
SW1A 1AA
2018-03-26
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
E14 4AL
2018-03-26
Enter the realm of venomous creatures in this eye-opening exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th May)

Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD
2018-03-26
See a unique series of watercolours of the interior and precincts of the Abbey church by the artist Alexander Cresswell. (Ending Soon Wed, 16th May)

Westminster Abbey
SW1P 3PA
2018-03-26
This exhibition and art installation brings together a variety of media and archival material, from biological slides and scientific papers to photogr (Ending Soon Wed, 16th May)

Guildhall Library
EC2V 7HH
2018-03-26
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
WC2H 0HE
2018-03-26
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
WC2N 5DN
2018-03-26
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
EC2Y 8DS
2018-03-26
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
SE1 6HZ
2018-03-26
Explore still life through the lens of Tacita Dean, one of the genre's leading contemporary practitioners  (Ending Soon Mon, 28th May)

The National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2018-03-26
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
WC1B 5DP
2018-03-26
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
SW7 2DD
2018-03-26
Free  
A display of the last remaining parts of the Whitechapel fatberg. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Jul)

The Museum of London
EC2Y 5HN
2018-03-26
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
NW1 4LE
2018-03-26
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
SE1 2UP
2018-03-26
The Great British Seaside celebrates six decades of our love affair with the beach.  (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Sep)

National Maritime Museum
SE10 9NF
2018-03-26
An award-winning exhibition exploring the endless ways in which colour shapes our world. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Oct)

Horniman Museum
SE23 3PQ
2018-03-26
A display of more than 200 original illustrations of the nature of the British Isles. (Ending Soon Fri, 2nd Nov)

Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD
2018-03-26
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
EC2Y 5HN
2018-03-26
Free  
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
E2 9PA
2018-03-26