Welcome to the IanVisits alternative guide to London.
Lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random geeky miscellany.
This is quite an old listings page, did you want: Wednesday, 4th September 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
Free
Blooming Marvellous
This life-sized knitted garden was created in 2011 by over 2,500 knitters and crocheters in Dorset. (Ending Soon Thu, 4th Sep)
Artsdepot
Fossils, skeletons and huge models tower above you in a mighty display of tusks and trunks. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Sep)
An exhibition of photographs documenting life by the River Thames from the source to the sea. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Sep)
Embassy Tea Gallery
Drawings by 10 artists on the topic of the changing landscapes of cities. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Sep)
Photography exhibition showing life in the far north of the planet. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Sep)
Photographic display of works by the artist where he has covered people in confectionery and deserts. (Ending Soon Thu, 11th Sep)
Gazelli Art House
An immersive exhibition of art, design, film, music and videogames (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Sep)
Free
Dream, Draw, Work
This exhibition explores the materials, draughtsmanship and design practices of Shaw and his small but brilliant staff. (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Sep)
Free
Mapping London
An exhibition of rare maps of London from 1572 to 2013. Discover 450 years of dramatic transformations of the Thames landscape. (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Sep)
gallery@oxo
Celebrate the arrival of spring with wriggly caterpillars, beautiful butterflies and majestic moths in the return of this outdoor butterfly hou (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Sep)
This new display features brand new material including photographs and film recently collected on a series of expeditions to Afghanistan. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st Sep)
Exhibition looking at the impact of the First World War on local life and on Bromley's role in caring for casualties. (Ending Soon Fri, 26th Sep)
Bromley Museum
Exhibition of work by one of Germany's most important modernist graphic artists. (Ending Soon Sat, 27th Sep)
Kemistry Gallery
This major exhibition showcases more than 200 specimens, objects and life-size models. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Sep)
An exhibition about the often overlooked fact that 1.5 million soldiers fighting in WW1 came from the Indian sub-continent. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Sep)
Celebrating the fifty year career of Ray Davies as a songwriter, from The Kinks to his extensive work as a solo artist. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Sep)
A new work of art by the man responsible for the giant floating yellow duck (Ending Soon Tue, 30th Sep)
Riverside Gardens
An exhibition about the 100,000 Jews who fought for Germany during WW1. (Ending Soon Wed, 8th Oct)
Enduring War examines how people coped with life during the war: from moments of patriotic fervour to periods of anxious inactivity, shock and despair (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Oct)
An art exhibition that explores royal patronage and taste in the reigns of George I and George II. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Oct)
This diverse exhibition of video and photography situates the question of documentary truth within the context of the River Thames. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Oct)
Pump House Gallery
The exhibition will include political and joke cartoons, comic postcards and cigarette cards, trench publications by serving soldiers, books, comics. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Oct)
This exhibition will explore changes to the city and the lives of Londoners as the country went to war. (Ending Soon Thu, 30th Oct)
Am exhibition of rarely seen contemporary and historical artworks featuring London's bridges. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Nov)
Museum of London Docklands
An open-air exhibition which captures the eerie peace and beauty of First World War battlefields as they appear today. (Ending Soon Tue, 11th Nov)
St James's Park
Guildhall Library examines the personal accounts and experiences of individuals, including 'Boy', who served on the first submarines (Ending Soon Wed, 12th Nov)
An exhibition that explores the impact that hand crafted Victorian Shop signs had on the writings of Charles Dickens. (Ending Soon Sat, 15th Nov)
Free
Exhibition: Waste
A series of fine wood-cut prints exploring our local municipal waste heritage by dramatist-turned-visual artist Elisabeth Bond. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st Dec)
The steampunks are taking over the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Jan)
This exhibition will look at how the war affected the residents of Enfield - both in the trenches and on the home front. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Jan)
Enfield Museum
Discover the impact on London life and the surprising role London’s bus drivers and their buses played on the Western Front. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Mar)
On the centenary of the First World War, this exhibition commemorates the professional nurses who worked, served and died between 1914 and 1918. (Ending Soon Tue, 31st Mar)
The Royal College of Nursing
