The history of executing people to open in the autumn
Just in time for Halloween, an exhibition will be opening later this year all about how people were killed by the state.
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Museum Meals: London Transport Museum
Covent Garden isn’t short of places to eat, but a new one has arrived in the revamped Transport Museum cafe/bar, Canteen.
Museum Meals – Charles Dickens Museum
At the back of a row of posh terraced houses in Bloomsbury is a small comfortable cafe – inside the Charles Dickens Museum.
V&A exhibition looks at the Theatre Stage
As much as the play itself and the actors, one of the dominant features of a play or musical is the stage design, and an exhibition is currently looking at that aspect of the stage performance.
Museum of London submits application to move to Smithfield
The Museum of London has filed the formal planning application that will see it move from its London Wall site to the derelict market buildings at Smithfield.
New medicine gallery opens at the Science Museum
A huge new exhibition – taking over two-thirds of an entire floor at the Science Museum has opened, all about the history of medicine.
Last chance to see the Raphael cartoons for a long time
This year marks the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, and oddly, the V&A has decided to close it’s Raphael Court for most of the year.
The Science Museum’s “tube map” of the Solar System
Spotted this in the Science Museum the other day – a range of goods for sale with a map of the Solar System which will look very familiar to London Underground fans.
Exhibition – Beatrix Potter’s Art: ‘drawn with design’
A corridor in the V&A Museum is lined with small pencil drawings, showing a young Beatrix Potter experimenting with the ideas which would form her later books.
A turbulent priest appears at the British Museum
To mark the 850th anniversary of the assassination of the Thomas Becket, the British Museum has announced a major exhibition about the man, the Archbishop, the saint.
Early porcelain head goes on display at the V&A
An exceptionally rare porcelain sculpture, made in London in the 1740s, and rediscovered in a French flea market has gone on display in the V&A.
Syd’s century old coffee stall is saved
For three generations, Syd’s coffee stall has been serving up hot drinks and food in Shoreditch, but tomorrow it closes for the last time.
See fist-fighting mice on the London Underground
A photo of two mice in a fist-fight on the London Underground has been put forward for a Natural History photography award.
Transport Museum offer for ianVisits readers
Tis the season to wear Christmas jumpers, and of course, the best one to wear this year will be covered in transport icons.
The first Christmas card goes on show in London
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.
The Clash: Museum of London Calling
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.
Tickets Alert: Photography at Sir John Soane’s Museum
The old house packed full of curiosities is one of those museums that normally bans photography – but not in the evenings.
Go behind the scenes of Piccadilly Circus tube station
A hidden series of tunnels and lift shafts lie out of sight under Piccadilly Circus, and now tours are offered of these hidden spaces.
See a Mercury mission spacecraft in the Science Museum
Sitting near the back of the Science Museum is a full-size model of a spacecraft that’s currently on a journey to Mercury.
Tickets Alert: Tours of the hidden parts of Moorgate tube station
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.
Exhibition Review: Notgeld and the farting coppersmith
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.
See inside the Museum of London’s new Farringdon home
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.
London’s Science City at the Science Museum
There’s a new gallery at the Science Museum that shows off an awful lot of wood, brass and books.
The British Empire and animal collecting
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.
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