London exhibitions - Archive Articles

Exhibition in a fire station shows off the London Fire Brigade’s new typeface

Shoreditch fire station is the topical location for an exhibition of posters and artwork inspired by the London Fire Brigade's (LFB) new typeface

The delayed Maria Bartuszová exhibition opens at the Tate Modern

A relatively little known Slovakian sculptor, Maria Bartuszová has been given an entire exhibition in the Tate Modern as the art world increasingly recognises her work.

Old Brompton bikes turned into furniture

A group of design students have turned parts of old Brompton bikes that would be scrapped into new products, ranging from a table football game to a coffee table.

Pay a visit to Bloomsbury’s “Museum of Sex Objects”

An open door in a Bloomsbury backstreet leads you down a dark narrow stone-paved passage into a basement to visit The Museum of Sex Objects.

Visiting the derelict New River Head buildings

A 300-year-old former waterworks in Clerkenwell is currently open to the public to visit before conversion works start on turning them into a new museum.

Jurassic World exhibition opens at the ExCeL London

Based on the movie franchise, Jurassic World: The Exhibition is an immersive experience that will bring you face-to-face with life-size dinosaurs, brought to life like never before.

A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain coming to Somerset House

Just in time for Halloween, an exhibition opens exploring how ideas rooted in horror have informed the last 50 years of creative rebellion.

London exhibitions to visit in September 2022

A selection of ten excellent exhibitions to visit in September while you’re avoiding the Christmas and Halloween decorations that are already going up in the shops.

British Museum displays shattered glass from the Beirut explosion

Ancient glass vessels, shattered in Beirut's devastating port explosion have gone on display in London for a few weeks before they are returned to Lebanon.

At the British Museum – Coffee culture in the Islamic world

It seems that many of us would struggle to live without a daily coffee, and an exhibition at the British Museum looks at the history of coffee, as a drink and cultural phenomenon.

Get the Barbican Blues – with a music exhibition

The rise of blues music in the UK, and the "British Blues Explosion" from the 1960s onwards are the topic of an exhibition at the Barbican's music library at the moment.

Maps of historic Lambeth go on display at Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace's newish library building currently has an exhibition of old maps showing how this part of London developed over the centuries.

Exhibition – turning a Japanese island into an art centre

A small Japanese island with a shrinking population that has found a new unexpected life as an island of art is the topic of an exhibition at Japan House in Kensington at the moment.

There’s a “rugby ball” in the Museum of London’s Harry Kane football exhibition 

There's a sizeable exhibition of football memorabilia belonging to the London footballer, Harry Kane in the Museum of London at the moment - and it includes what looks like a rugby ball in the display.

New exhibition reveals Charles Dickens’s hunt for a haunted house

A new exhibition opening in time for Halloween looks at Charles Dickens’s interest in the supernatural and his desire to spend a night in a haunted house so scary he wouldn't be able to sleep.

Reframed: The Woman in the Window at the Dulwich Picture Gallery

After a couple of years where we spent much of our time indoors staring through windows at the world outside, there's an exhibition all based on an iconic motif of the art world - the woman looking out of a window.

Lucian Freud exhibition of his paintings

In what would have been his centenary year, an exhibition of the paintings by Lucian Freud has opened at the Freud Museum in North London.

Three month trial offer on the National Art Pass

The National Art Pass, a card that gets you cheap or free entry to museums and exhibitions has a 3-month trial offer on at the moment.

Hiroshima drawings on show in London

Blackened sketches of contorted bodies fill a grand Georgian mansion house in central London, as the Hiroshima drawings make a short visit to this country.

Pain Relief in the Wellington Arch

The monumental arch at Hyde Park Corner isn't just something to walk past, you can go inside, and there's an art exhibition filling the upper floors at the moment.

London exhibitions to visit in August 2022

A selection of ten excellent exhibitions to visit in August while you're avoiding the heatwaves and hosepipe bans.

Buckingham Palace opens its doors with a show of showy jewels

Each year, the summer opening of Buckingham Palace puts on a new exhibition, and in the Jubilee year, they've filled a room with the Queen's jewels and photographs of her wearing them.

An open-air exhibition of London’s parks and open spaces

An open-air exhibition of photographs and prints showing off the evolution of London's parks since the sixteenth century, including festivals, gardening and promenading; from playgrounds to allotments, bruising Sunday football to grazing flocks of sheep.

Giant paper boats and planes fill a North Greenwich gallery

An art gallery has been filled with the equivalent of giant paper boats, planes and swans sailing in a yellow ocean