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See Gods Own Junkyard in the Leadenhall Market

Normally based in Walthamstow, the famous home of neon signs, Gods Own Junkyard is currently filling three shops in the Leadenhall Market with their trademark glowing displays.

A free football exhibiton in the City of London

If you head to Aldgate Square at the moment, there's a free public exhibition all about the history of football in London.

See a Parish Boy’s Progress at the Charles Dickens Museum

An exhibition at the Dickens Museum has opened about Charles Dicken's second novel as a full-time writer, which was also probably his second most famous novel, after a Christmas Carol.

Julian Opie at Pitzhanger – bold lines meets ornate architecture

The recently restored Pitzhanger Manor in the heart of Ealing is currently home to one of those artists whose name is less familiar than their art is.

London exhibitions to visit in July 2021

A selection of rather fine exhibitions to visit in London during July 2021.

Science and art at the National Gallery’s Copernicus exhibition

A painting of the Polish astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus is currently on display in the UK for the first time ever.

Gainsborough’s Blue Boy returns to London next year

A century after it was sold to an American railway tycoon, one of Thomas Gainsborough’s most famous paintings will return to London for a short exhibition.

Four free exhibitions to visit at the V&A Museum

There's a number of temporary free exhibitions at the moment within the V&A museum, which are worth a trip to the museum in their own right.

Exhibition of woodwork marks the 450th anniversay of the Joiners and Ceilers

A room inside the Guildhall is currently filled with woodworking tools, as this year marks the 450th anniversary of the granting of a Royal Charter to one of the City of London's livery companies

See brass steam trains in the Science Museum

There's a dark room in the Science Museum that's filled with brass and steel models of early steam engines and locomotives.

The Barbican tells the story of the threatened Yanomami people

Part art exhibition, part awareness campaign, a photographic exhibition about Brazil's threatened indigenous people, the Yanomami has opened at the Barbican.

The real Noël Coward, the man beneath the dressing gown

Noël Coward, so often seen as an upper-class dandy in a dressing gown, but who was actually a middle-class workaholic, charity fundraiser, and even now, some of his work in WW2 remains classified.

See folklore art on display in a church crypt

If you head down a flight of stairs into a dark crypt under a church you will find an exhibition of folklore art keeping the ancient pagan traditions alive.

Somerset House is filled with trees for the London Design Biennale

Somerset House's main courtyard has been filled with trees until the end of the month, breaking a long-held rule that trees should never be seen in the courtyard.

Exhibition – JR’s prolific gigantic street art

A subversive street artist, JR, whose works are known for their monumental scale as well as the social message has a new exhibition filling the Saatchi Gallery

A glowing earth fills the Painted Hall in Greenwich

Luke Jerram’s huge glowing earth has returned to Greenwich’s Painted Hall, filling the baroque space with a slowly rotating orb.

Islamaphobia and the Opium Wars – at the Brunei Gallery

Two seemingly very different exhibitions have reopened, but both tell their own story about Western oppression of cultures they don't understand.

From Tudors to Windsors – a history in portraits

Kings, Queens, mistresses and loverboys - some 500 years of monarchy is on display as part art and part history lesson at the National Maritime Museum.

London exhibitions to visit in June 2021

As we crawl out of the lockdown, the museum and galleries are opening up and putting on their big summer exhibitions at last. Here's a selection of what's open in June to waken up the slumbering cultural brain.

Jean Dubuffet at the Barbican

The first major exhibition of work by the French artist, Jean Dubuffet in over 50 years has opened at the Barbican.

Hackers – a cyberpunk exhibition in a basement

There's a basement in central London that's currently filled with movie costumes from one of the original cyberpunk cult movies

Mythbusting Nero at the British Museum

Almost everything you think you know about Nero is probably wrong. He didn't fiddle while Rome burned, probably didn't kill his wife, might not have killed his mother, and even his suicide is in doubt.

Two Adam Dant exhibitons in London at the same time

A bit like buses, you wait for ages for an Adam Dant exhibition, then two appear at once. The famous maker of arty maps now has displays in Westminster and the City of London.

The Winchcombe meteorite goes on display in London

It fell from outer space and landed in a small Gloucestershire town, and now it's gone on display in the Natural History Museum.