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.
All the news from London’s museums
Tickets Alert: Open weekend at the London Transport Museum’s overflow depot
Like most museums, the London Transport Museum can't put everything it owns on display, so keeps a lot in storage, and a few times a year, that store is opened to the public.
David Bowie’s archive donated to the V&A Museum
David Bowie's archive of more than 80,000 items has been donated to the V&A Museum so that it can be conserved and go on display to the public.
A new museum for the City of London
A property development is offering a new permanent home for the Migration Museum, currently based in Lewisham, with three floors including exhibition and event space, a cafe and shop.
Tickets Alert: Tours of the British Museum’s round reading room
Sitting in the centre of the British Museum is a huge Round Reading Room, with a massive dome, and although long closed to the public, the museum has started offering tours.
Campaign seeks to return Florence Nightingale’s customised wheelchair to the UK
Florence Nightingale's specially customised wheelchair, which has been in a US university for over a century, could go on display in London's Florence Nightingale Museum, if the museum can raise the money to acquire it.
Tate Modern loses privacy court case from neighbouring flat owners
Flat owners in the Neo Bankside development next to Tate Modern have won an appeal that could see the gallery having to close or redesign a public walkway around its extension building.
More tours of disused and hidden parts of the London Underground
More tickets have been released for the London Transport Museum’s tours of the private and disused parts of the London Underground.
Museum of London asks the public to donate their London fashions
The Museum of London Docklands is planning an exhibition later this year on London's Jewish fashion designers and is looking for people to contribute items for display.
Visit the curious Amersham Fair Organ Museum
If you wander into a small industrial estate on the right day, you'll hear the distinctive sound of the funfair coming out of a building -- this is the Amersham Fair Organ museum and it's open just once a month.
Handel & Hendrix museum confirms its reopening date
The Handel & Hendrix museum in central London, which has been closed since September 2021 for refurbishment, has confirmed that it will reopen on Thursday 18th May 2023.
Pollock’s Toy Museum forced to close
Central London's wonderfully quirky toy museum has been forced to close after it was unable to secure a new lease with the landlords.
London’s Hunterian Museum is to reopen in March
Good news, as London's Hunterian Museum, named after the 18th-century surgeon and anatomist, John Hunter, has confirmed that it will reopen in March 2023 following a five-year redevelopment.
See the British Museum’s own Crystal Skull
Prompted by the annual Indiana Jones movie repeats on Channel 4 the other day, I was reminded that the British Museum owns a Crystal Skull, and it's on display.
V&A Museum doubling the size of its Photography Galleries
The V&A Museum is doubling the size of its Photography Centre and has confirmed that the new galleries will open on 25th May 2023.
National Portrait Gallery confirms it will reopen in June 2023
After three years of closure for rebuilding works, the National Portrait Gallery has confirmed that it will reopen its doors on 22 June 2023, following the most significant redevelopment in its history.
London’s museum & galleries Christmas 2022 opening dates
Lots of museums are open over the Christmas period, but often with opening hours as erratic as Aunt Norra on her 3rd sherry of the day – so here is a list of known opening hours.
One week left to visit the Museum of London
In just 7 days time, the Museum of London will close the doors of its current home for the final time as it prepares to move to its new home in Smithfield.
Charles Dickens Museum gets dressed for Christmas
The home of the writer often described as the man who invented the modern Christmas has been given a Christmas makeover for the festive season.
Tickets Alert: The Fan Museum lit by candles
The Fan Museum, a museum that you've probably not visited is having a series of festive evenings where the whole museum will be lit by candlelight.
Give the gift of Museum Membership this Christmas
If you want to give something this Christmas that your recipient can use all year round, rather than socks and fragrances… give them membership of a museum they love.
More tours of disused parts of the London Underground
London Transport Museum’s new season of Hidden London tours is now on sale, offering access to parts of the Underground usually off limits to the public.
Just one month left until the Museum of London closes
You have just one month left to visit the Museum of London before it closes for a few years as part of its planned move to a new building.
Central London’s free museum mile
In central London is a cluster of free museums all within a short walk of each other that offer an eclectic day out, and leaves you wondering how you never visited them before.
A special tube map is on display in the V&A Museum
A specially modified tube map that was released last year has been added to the V&A Museum's collection and is on display at the moment in the museum's rapid acquisition gallery.
