Welcome to the IanVisits alternative guide to London.
Lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random geeky miscellany.
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Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
This small display celebrates the traditions associated with love, courtship and marriage in Iran and neighbouring regions. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Nov)
Free
World Press Photo
See the best in journalistic photography in this renowned exhibition. (Ending Soon Mon, 21st Nov)
Southbank Centre
Free
Islington Burning
An exhibition from the London Fire Brigade museum in a temporary display while the main museum is closed. (Ending Soon Fri, 25th Nov)
The exhibition showcases the handmade archives, indexes and scrapbooks recorded by cinema obsessives, from World War Two to the present. (Ending Soon Sat, 26th Nov)
The Peltz Gallery
Submerged under the sea, two lost cities of ancient Egypt were recently rediscovered. Their story is told for the first time. (Ending Soon Sun, 27th Nov)
British artist Tom Ellis presents a newly commissioned series of works pairing his figurative paintings with self-made furniture. (Ending Soon Sun, 27th Nov)
View six creative proposals for lighting central London’s celebrated bridges. (Ending Soon Tue, 29th Nov)
Southbank Centre
An exhibition that celebrates the vibrant contemporary art from the territory of Nunavut in Canada’s Arctic. (Ending Soon Wed, 30th Nov)
Canada House Gallery
This exhibition explores the story of this devastation through Guildhall Library’s collections. (Ending Soon Wed, 30th Nov)
See a number of short films in a derelict building. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Dec)
180 Studios
Free
Money and Power
An eclectic exhibition of recent photos on the theme of 'Money and Power' offering a fresh contemporary perspective within the City. (Ending Soon Tue, 6th Dec)
A selection of curious, unseen works picked from the collections of The Cinema Museum. (Ending Soon Mon, 12th Dec)
Peltz Gallery
An exhibition of five short films, each one shot in a different city over the past six years. (Ending Soon Mon, 12th Dec)
Canada House Gallery
Discover the story of the razing and rebuilding of the Royal College of Physicians in the heart of the city after the firestorm engulfed it. (Ending Soon Fri, 16th Dec)
A celebratory exhibition of a unique institution of higher education which presents the history of the School from a human perspective, (Ending Soon Sat, 17th Dec)
Brunei Gallery
The exhibition focuses on the local area and on display is one of the original, hand-coloured ‘poverty maps’ of Holborn. (Ending Soon Sat, 17th Dec)
LSE Library
Creating a new pop-up working space in the heart of Bloomsbury, this exhibition discusses the issues facing London workers, (Ending Soon Sat, 17th Dec)
Free
The Ulm Model
This is the first exhibition in the UK to represent the achievements of the school, including designs famously commissioned from the school by corporate clients such as Braun and Lufthansa. (Ending Soon Sun, 18th Dec)
Raven Row
An exhibition including first editions, art, photos and memorabilia from the estates of Eleanor Farjeon and MacDonald Gill. (Ending Soon Fri, 23rd Dec)
A photography exhibition at City Hall showing off images from the Fire Brigade's archives. (Ending Soon Fri, 30th Dec)
City Hall
An exhibition of historic fans which depict the built environment. (Ending Soon Sat, 31st Dec)
Fan Museum
Very odd art display in the Barbican's curve space. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Jan)
Barbican Centre
This exhibition considers a fundamental yet little-examined aspect of life at the Foundling Hospital – food. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Jan)
A wide selection of Heath Robinson’s humorous drawings from both World Wars. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Jan)
Heath Robinson Museum
Go behind the scenes of some of the most iconic war films which have captured the imagination of cinema-going audiences for generations. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Jan)
Am exhibition of some of the souvenirs people could buy from the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. (Ending Soon Thu, 12th Jan)
The original diary of one of the 17th century's leading scientists is on display for the first time. (Ending Soon Thu, 12th Jan)
A glittering display of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion from 1919 to 1929. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Jan)
An exhibition that looks at a century of posters agitating for political change. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Jan)
The first ever exhibition devoted to the Dutch painter and draughtsman Adriaen van de Velde. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Jan)
Follow the rise and fall of the mental asylum and explore how it has shaped the complex landscape of mental health today. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Jan)
Explore the influence of one of art’s most infamous and revolutionary figures. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Jan)
National Gallery
Free
Gonks
Can you find the Gonks hiding around Southbank Centre? (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Jan)
Southbank Centre
Free
Punks
Punks tells the story of one of music's most explosive genres from the people who were there. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Jan)
Explore the impact of telegraphy on the artistic imagination and wider social consciousness in the 19th century. (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd Jan)
A hypnotic light display based on Islamic geometry in the main foyer of the Barbican. (Ending Soon Wed, 25th Jan)
Barbican Centre
Two outstanding masterpieces by Spanish painter Maíno, on display in the UK for the first time (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Jan)
National Gallery
An exhibition that focuses on the wild variety of graphic art that emanated from an era of anti-establishment sentiment. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Jan)
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
The artwork used for the print elements in the Harry Potter movies displayed by the original artists. (Ending Soon Sat, 4th Feb)
House of Minalima
Free
How do we look?
An exhibition, in which we consider the what, why and how of scientific imaging through the eyes and words of researchers. (Ending Soon Sat, 4th Feb)
The Francis Crick Institute
This exhibition is a rare opportunity to see an outstanding range of surviving examples in one place. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Feb)
The Vulgar is the first exhibition to explore the inherently challenging but utterly compelling territory of taste in fashion, (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Feb)
Barbican Centre
Free
Mise-en-abyme
An art and light installation made from materials recycled from a 2015 sculpture. (Ending Soon Fri, 10th Feb)
gallery@oxo
Celebrate some of the most popular entertainments of Victorian times (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Feb)
The British Library
This exhibition raises important questions about historical examples of forced migration and Britain’s response in the past. (Ending Soon Fri, 17th Feb)
Wiener Library
An opportunity to discover the work of 13 ceramicists in an exhibition spanning over 80 years of ceramic art. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Feb)
Jewish Museum London
See Quentin Blake's original drawings for Beatrix Potter's newly re-discovered story The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Feb)
House of Illustration
How have the finished and unfinished revolutions of the late 1960s changed the way we live today and think about the future? (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Feb)
This exhibition will look at the Bank of England's past, and explore the history of a medium that has come to dominate the world around us. (Ending Soon Tue, 28th Feb)
Bank of England Museum
This exhibition highlights the development of public health nursing and the roles nurses have played in improving public health. (Ending Soon Tue, 28th Feb)
Royal College of Nursing Library and Heritage Cent
This display steps inside the homes of 26 London teenagers to explore the meaning and significance of contemporary teenage bedrooms. (Ending Soon Tue, 28th Feb)
An exhibition showing how maps changed how we look at the world, from Beck's tube map to spy maps. (Ending Soon Wed, 1st Mar)
Rembrant's Self-Portrait, Wearing a Feathered Bonnet is on display in London for the first time. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Mar)
The exhibition contains theatre posters, handwritten scripts, and film stills. (Ending Soon Sat, 11th Mar)
Bourne Hall Museum
Discover the evolution of underwear design from the 18th-century to the present day. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Mar)
A display of the best of the political cartoons published in the newspapers during 2016 (Ending Soon Wed, 29th Mar)
The Political Cartoon Gallery
Free
Londinium AD 43
Photographer Eugenio Grosso takes you on a photographic journey through time from the foundation of London to the present. (Ending Soon Fri, 31st Mar)
Guildhall Library
See the world's longest Lego bridge, and a display about other bridges (Ending Soon Fri, 31st Mar)
Institution of Civil Engineers
The Library and Museum’s latest exhibition marks the centenary of the opening of the Royal Masonic Hospital. (Ending Soon Fri, 7th Apr)
The Library and Museum of Freemasonry
An exhibition about the woman in Admiral Horatio Nelson's life - Emma Hamilton. (Ending Soon Mon, 17th Apr)
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Fire! Fire!
An exhibition marking the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of 1666. (Ending Soon Mon, 17th Apr)
The first exhibition to focus on images of artists from within the Royal Collection. (Ending Soon Mon, 17th Apr)
An exhibition of board games from modern classics to 18th century historical games. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)
V&A Museum of Childhood
Explore Chamberlin, Powell and Bon's endeavour to combine spaciousness with high density development. (Ending Soon Wed, 26th Apr)
Barbican Centre
The biggest international competition of its kind, annually showcasing spectacular images shot by astrophotographers worldwide. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Jun)
Free
The Price of a Mile
A display about the work of doctors who gave anaesthesia and pain relief to the wounded during the Battle of the Somme (Ending Soon Fri, 30th Jun)
Anaesthesia Heritage Centre
Free
Our Lives in Data
This exhibition investigates the rapidly evolving role of big data in all our lives and how it is being used to transform the world around us. (Ending Soon Fri, 1st Sep)
A substantial exhibition featuring around 200 original costumes, props, models, and pieces of artwork. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)
O2 Arena / Millennium Dome
An exhibition that commemorates the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. (Ending Soon Mon, 15th Jan)
