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: Saturday, 14th September 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
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)
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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)
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
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)
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
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)
This exhibition will explore his immigrant roots, his Jewish background and his contribution to British design. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Jan)
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)
