A 120 year old electric carriage goes on display at the Science Museum
What looks like an old horse-drawn carriage has appeared in the Science Museum, but looks are deceptive, for this was an exceptionally early electric car.
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A 120 year old electric carriage goes on display at the Science Museum
What looks like an old horse-drawn carriage has appeared in the Science Museum, but looks are deceptive, for this was an exceptionally early electric car.
Enzo Mari – the Marxist materialist at the Design Museum
One of the most important designers of the modern interior world that you've never heard of is headlining the Design Museum this summer with a large exhibition showing off his handiwork.
Ten London exhibitions to visit in April 2024
A selection of ten exhibitions to visit in London while dodging the April showers.
An exhibition about George Seferis has opened inside the Greek Ambassador’s home
Inside the Greek Ambassador's official London residence is a room preserved for nearly 60 years in memory of the man who once worked there and is now open to the public for the first time.
Duke of Wellington’s dress uniforms go on display at Apsley House
The Duke of Wellington is famous for the vast number of portraits of him in his military uniforms, but the actual uniforms themselves were hardly ever seen in public - until now.
Beyond dog food: Unearthing the unexpected roles of dogs in advertising
Advertising has used the image of the faithful canine pretty much since printing made adverts possible—and now an exhibition is looking back at the history of doggy goods.
From Tiny Tradesmen to Lilliputian Locals: Exploring “staffage” in architectural drawings
Most architectural exhibitions are about the buildings, but this one isn't -- it's about the figures added to architectural drawings to show off the scale of the buildings.
Decades of Dissent: Anti-Nuclear movement explored in LSE Library exhibition
A "tube map" in the shape of a fighter jet is on display at the moment, as part of an exhibition looking at the two conflicting sides in the protests about the arms trade.
Photographic exhibition celebrates the women of the RNLI
To mark the bicentenary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), there's an exhibition of people who most certainly wouldn't have been invited to the founding rescue - women.
Tickets Alert: Late opening for Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms
Tate Modern's long-running and very popular art installation of mirrors and lights created by Yayoi Kusama will be open late through April to give people a last chance to visit.
Unleash your inner child at ‘Art of the Brick’ LEGO exhibition
Appropriately for the location, just off Brick Lane can be found an exhibition of bricks -- LEGO bricks in fact, over a million of them.
A feast of fabric at the Barbican
The usually brutalist Barbican is somewhat softer at the moment, as the art gallery has been filled with soft textiles, looking at how fabrics have been used in art rather than fashion.
London Transport Museum exhibition bridges 1940s London and 2020s Kyiv
Modern computers can colourise old WWII photos and make them seem modern, but what if colour photos of people sheltering in underground stations weren't of 1940s London but 2020s Kyiv?
David Bowie photos from a 1992 studio session go on display
A selection of photos taken of David Bowie that haven't been seen for over 30 years have gone on display in the glittering Fitzrovia Chapel.
Ten London exhibitions to visit in March 2024
A selection of ten exhibitions to visit while the shops fill up with Easter eggs and Hot Cross Buns.
Design Museum buys rare ‘Number 1 Barbie’ for its Barbieverse exhibition
The dolls, dresses and dreamhouses, which will be displayed in this summer’s Barbie exhibition at the Design Museum, have been revealed for the first time.
Michelangelo sketch and its painting reunited at the British Museum for the first time in 400 years
Following years of conservation work, one of Michelangelo's largest surviving drawings will be going on display at the British Museum for three months later this spring, alongside the painting it inspired, reunited for the first time in 400 years.
See the new King Charles III banknotes at the Bank of England museum
You can get a preview of the new King Charles III banknotes before they go into general distribution, as a set has gone on display at the Bank of England's museum.
From Foaming Troughs to Flying Jellyfish: Exploring Organic Inspirations at the Hayward Gallery
The brutalist Hayward Gallery on the Southbank is a bit softer at the moment, as it's been filled with artworks that look at how artists have been inspired by movement, flux and organic growth.
From Revisionism to Resonance: Exploring the black figure in contemporary art
A composite gold figure looks almost dismissively as people pass by in this new exhibition about the black figure by black artists at the National Portrait Gallery.
Free exhibition showcasing lost Victorian London opens this spring
Rarely seen photographs of Victorian London will be displayed in a free exhibition this spring, at the City of London's archives building in Clerkenwell.
Yoko Ono’s avant-garde journey: A dive into experimental art at Tate Modern
A vast white space inside Tate Modern has transformed into a hommage to one of modern art's more controversial artists - Yoko Ono, almost as famous for simply being famous as she is for marriage(s) and her art.
Docklands history exhibition in the local library
Canary Wharf's local library -- aka, the Idea Store -- has a small but interesting photography exhibition about the history of Docklands, mostly from the time before colour was invented.
From fields to factories: Burtynsky’s haunting exploration of human industry at the Saatchi Gallery
Austre's white gallery rooms filled with vast colourful photographs of mankind's impact on the world that simultaneously trigger emotions of awe and revulsion in what you see.