Highgate’s West Cemetery is the famous half of the cemetery and normally it’s open for guided tours only, but at the moment, weekends are open to freely wander around.
Kew Garden’s winter nighttime decorations are reopening again, with a sparkling trail of over one million twinkling lights, illuminating heritage trees and buildings.
A side-effect of the lockdown is that Kew Gardens is cheaper to visit at the moment.
January is David Bowe month at the BFI Southbank, with a large number of the man’s movies being shown through the month.
The courtyard of Somerset House, normally an ice-rink at this time of year, is to become a fairground dodgems ride instead.
There’s a chance to virtually visit the excellent electronic music exhibition at the Design Museum this coming Thursday (17th Dec).
More dates have been announced for a chance to walk through the tunnels deep under Clerkenwell once used by the Post Office’s private Mail Rail trains.
Over three nights, a performance of A Christmas Carol will take place inside Charles Dickens home, and it will be done live and by candlelight.
With the lockdown ending, the National Trust has confirmed how bookings to visit properties over Christmas will work.
This coming Saturday (12th Dec), there will be a rather strange dining event – dinner on a Jumbo Jet.
Highgate’s West Cemetery is the famous half of the cemetery and normally it’s open for guided tours only, but they are now allowing people in to wander around freely.
Built just over 300 years ago, a church hall in north London is, for the first time ever, to regularly open it’s doors to the public for tours.
The View from the Shard – the viewing floors at the top of the skyscraper are offering a half-price deal on their annual ticket passes.
Christmas seems somewhat synonymous with Charles Dickens, and the Charles Dickens Museum is hosting a series of appropriate talks over the next few weeks.
When it reopens after the lockdown, the Royal Albert Hall is hosting a trial event to test its reopening processes, with a cheap tickets organ recital.
The London Transport Museum is offering a “Black Friday” discount of 50 percent off their disused station tours which take visitors on a digital tour of subterranean London from the comfort of their sofas.
The UK’s largest reflector telescope can be found, surprisingly, in North London, and while the lockdown carries on, they’re starting a series of virtual tours of the observatory.
The annual tradition of filling a street in Rotherhithe with Nordic delights later this month won’t be happening, but the Finnish Church will still be opening its Christmas food shop.
The festivities are starting to feel like the warning from the Ghost of Christmas Future, but the Old Vic theatre will still perform A Christmas Carol this year.
A subterranean exploration of sound and light opens in January – an exhibition by Ryoji Ikeda that fills labyrinth-like spaces in a large office block on Strand.
If you fancy a good lunch in one of the City of London’s ancient livery halls – it’s possible.
It’s not opening until September, but tickets to a revamped Chelsea Flower Show are now on sale.
In an unusual year, and unusual occurrence – the National Theatre is having a panto show this Christmas.
A novel solution to the problem of putting on plays at the moment, as the Globe theatre turns into a cinema with a series of Shakespeare film screenings.
