Museums
All the news from London’s museums
1843 was an important year in the history of Christmas, and a new exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum is bringing them together for the first time.
It’s 40 years since The Clash’s third album ‘London Calling’ was released, and an exhibition has pulled together a host of memorabilia for that iconic album.
The old house packed full of curiosities is one of those museums that normally bans photography – but not in the evenings.
A hidden series of tunnels and lift shafts lie out of sight under Piccadilly Circus, and now tours are offered of these hidden spaces.
Sitting near the back of the Science Museum is a full-size model of a spacecraft that’s currently on a journey to Mercury.
More tours of hidden parts of the London Underground have been announced for next year, and they’re adding Morgate to the list of venues.
In the British Museum at the moment is an exhibition about a period of German history that’s both well known, and hardly known at all – the hyperinflation of the world war periods.
The Museum of London is set to move soon from its current home into a cluster of semi-derelict Victorian iron and 1960s concrete buildings.
There’s a new gallery at the Science Museum that shows off an awful lot of wood, brass and books.
A new exhibition at the Grant Museum takes a look at how the attitudes of the British Empire affected the collections of natural wildlife that were brought back to the UK.
There’s a display in the Transport Museum of roundels used by TfL, but one of them shouldn’t be there.
The largest ever Bronze Age hoard to be discovered in London, and the third largest of its kind in the UK, has been unearthed in Havering. A total of 453 bronze objects dating between c.900 and c.800 BC have been…
The V&A’s Museum of Childhood in East London has secured planning permission for a large revamp of the listed building.
A document that is so rare and fragile that it can only be seen for a few weeks each year has gone on display in the British Museum.
Released to tie in with an exhibition of the same name, this book is a picture rich journey through some of the disused and hidden spaces on the London Underground.
There’s a chance next month to visit a part of the Jubilee line rarely seen – the overrun tunnels that run beyond Charing Cross station towards Aldwych.
As you step through the familiar terracotta frontage of an old tube station it’s difficult to believe you’re two floors above ground, and not deep under it.
This is more significant than it sounds, as it’s one of only three items of silver plate known to have belonged to Pepys as part of his personal collection and is now the only one on display in the UK.
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The first Christmas card goes on show in London
