Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
Reviews of the many exhibitions that take place across London.
Alice in Wonderland exhibition opens at the British Library
One hundred and fifty years ago, a book was published which was to become part of the cultural consciousness. A book that few of us can recall the details, but all know the overall story.
Exhibition about the Occultist Dr John Dee opening soon
Mathematician, magician, astronomer, astrologer, explorer, occultist, imperialist, alchemist and spy, John Dee continues to fascinate centuries after he first stepped foot in the court of Elizabeth I.
The Soviet space race arrives in London
It can scarce have escaped your notice that the Soviets have invaded London. Less keeping calm and carrying on though, than get excited and rush over to the Science Museum.
See the Baltic Exchange Memorial Glass
Sitting in a bit of a corner in the Maritime Museum can be found something that ideally shouldn't be there.
New exhibition explore animals in books
Animal Tales, a new exhibition in the British Library, asks why animals have come to play such an important role in literature for adults and children alike.
Huge geological map of Britain goes on display
200 years ago a map was published. A radical map, that was so radical that the man who created it was shunned for many years.
Apsley House puts on the Waterloo Banquet
To mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington's London home, Apsley House has re-presented Waterloo Gallery where Wellington held annual banquets to commemorate the great victory.
The science underneath Joshua Reynolds paintings
The Wallace Collection has decided to take a deeper look at some of its paintings and has now put the results of its science on display in a small exhibition.
Gold display opens at the Bank of England’s museum
The Bank of England's museum has had a bit of a refurb recently, with a new small permanent gallery added devoted to that most iconic of banking stores -- gold.
Heavy Metal art in a church crypt
Gothic art and heavy metal music fans might want to head over to Euston next weekend, as a two-day only exhibition of art work is being held, appropriately enough, in an underground church crypt.
The man who designed modern British posters
Abram Games was a Jew, born to immigrant parents from Eastern Europe, who was to go on and define an era in poster design and artwork.
As we approach Halloween, the British Museum has put on an exhibition of witches and wicked bodies as shown throughout history.
Modern shabtis in ancient settings – for one day only
Dotted around a museum filled with ancient Egyptian relics can be found a very modern take on an ancient religious art form. Ancient Egyptian shabtis were figures placed in tombs, to work for the deceased in the afterlife, but the…
Food as art on display in photo exhibition
Soylent Green is people, but are people dessert or the main course? An artist with an agenda has turned people into deserts, but wants to do so to sell a message about over consumption of food.
Lego exhibition comes to London
They seem to be announcing it rather early, but later this year will be a chance to see an awful lot of plastic bricks on Brick Lane in East London.
New art on display inside old museums
Two of the UCL museums in central London have both launched art exhibitions where the art is scattered amongst their more formal exhibits.
Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight at the British Library
If you like graphics or science, or graphics combined with science, then get along to the British Library as they have combined the two into an exhibition.
See the other King George’s in the Queen’s Gallery
We all know old mad King George III, but who were the other two monarchs? That is a question that a new exhibition at the Queen's Gallery seeks to answer.
Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story
What would a timeline through a million years of the history of Britain look like? Well, mostly ice, and mostly not Britain, thanks to the vagaries of climate change over the aeon.
War! What is it Good for? Exhibitions! That’s What!
Such is the theme of a display at the Museum of Childhood that asks in that hang-wringing angst way that this particular museum is particularly skilled at -- should children play at war?
Quirky Posters depicting London’s Mysteries
A rather fun exhibition has opened inside London's Transport Museum where artists have taken curiosities of London as their theme for a possible future poster design
Charles Darwin’s head to be eaten by a colony of ants
A series of sculptures created using robotics, live insects and crochet are being put on display in a new exhibition based around Charles Darwin's face.
Wildlife Photography at the Natural History Museum
As someone who takes a fair amount of photos for this blog, I have a tendency to wander around places snapping away like mad at anything and everything that looks vaguely interesting, then getting home and working out which of the 600 photos are any good.
Dr Who and the Daleks invade the Museum of London
A new exhibition to mark the 90th anniversary of the Radio Times has opened at the Museum of London, and as with anything BBC related, has a lot of Dr Who included.
