Coventry’s Transport Museums – The Electric Railway Museum
It’s not easy to find, not easy to get to, and about to close down, so you should hurry to one of the best collections of electric railway trains in the UK.
It’s not easy to find, not easy to get to, and about to close down, so you should hurry to one of the best collections of electric railway trains in the UK.
In an era of ever more flashy museum displays, step back into an older world, of wooden cases and typewritten signs, to a place where misshapen lumps of stone are the glories to admire.
After hurtling through the atmosphere, its outer skin burnt and charred by superheated plasma, a spacecraft has arrived at the Science Museum.
A new exhibition will be opening this autumn focusing on that rather curious ability of animals to kill – using poison.
As an example of how TfL uses data analysis to plan future tube station upgrades, a 3D scale model of Bond Street tube station has been loaned to the Science Museum.
There a small, but interesting exhibition at the moment that puts on display a range of Tudor era paintings, books and royal documents.
For around 500 years, a worshipful company controlled the printing industry within the City of London, and an exhibition has opened showing off some of their heritage.
A vast display of science fiction memorabilia is filling an inky black space within the brutalist heart of the Barbican at the moment.
Much like the early days of travelling players, there’s a traveling exhibition about the history of the theatre, and its currently in London.
The Museum of London has opened a new exhibition looking less at historic object than at a period of human migration – the rise of the city and how the information age is changing the cities of the future.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality between men, and the British Library is taking a look at the literary side of gay love.
You’ve probably seen the black and white photo of a woman in futuristic hair-curlers promoting the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition about electricity, but its more than hair tongs and kettles that’s on display.
A curiously powerful and moving collection of art created by school children, but inspired by memories of WW1, with a Flanders trench like pathway to navigate.
A display of rather offbeat ideas to help improve the public realm in the eastern side of the City of London has opened near the Guildhall.
A cluster of mirrors and chain mail has arrived in the garden outside the Dulwich Picture Gallery, in the venue’s first ever events pavilion.
The annual exhibition of new posters by today’s illustrators has opened and you’ll be seeing three of them in tube stations shortly.
A short walk from Big Ben is a large exhibition about the tunnels under London, and — much more importantly — a working tunnel boring machine, made from Lego.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian revolution of 1917, and the British Library has taken the opportunity to look at how it affected people far from the palaces and centres of power.