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, 9th March 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
Free
Robert Adam's London
An exhibition of some of Sir John Soane’s Museum’s most beautiful and influential designs for Adam’s projects in London. (Ending Soon Sat, 11th Mar)
Sir John Soane's Museum
The exhibition contains theatre posters, handwritten scripts, and film stills. (Ending Soon Sat, 11th Mar)
Bourne Hall Museum
A major exhibition celebrating the master hairstylist’s remarkable 40 year career, from the late 1970s to the current day. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Mar)
Somerset House
Discover the evolution of underwear design from the 18th-century to the present day. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Mar)
Isabelle Émilie de Tessier was a London actress, cartoonist and illustrator who worked under the pseudonym 'Marie Duval'. This exhibition at Guildhall Library is the first one dedicated solely to Duval's work as a nineteenth century pioneer of the art of comics. (Ending Soon Fri, 17th Mar)
Guildhall Library
An exhibition of rarely seen works documenting the role of British forces in Italy during the First World War. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Mar)
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
An exhibition of traditional embroidered textiles from the lands of the Indus, Afghanistan, the Near East and Central Asia. (Ending Soon Sat, 25th Mar)
Brunei Gallery
This exhibition explores Impressionism in an Australian context – closely related to yet entirely distinct from its European counterparts. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Mar)
National Gallery
See the shortlisted proposals for Trafalgar Square's 2018 and 2020 Fourth Plinth commissions (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Mar)
National Gallery
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
Photos of the derelict site of the 1933 German Olympic village homes. (Ending Soon Sat, 1st Apr)
Canal
Free
Camellia Show 2017
A display of rare and historic Camellias in a Grade 1 listed Conservatory, a gorgeous array of blooms; pink, red, white and striped. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Apr)
Chiswick House and Gardens
This exhibition sees Leighton’s most famous and celebrated work, Flaming June, return to the artist's house from Puerto Rico. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Apr)
Leighton House Museum
A series of paintings based on language collected from the Facebook posts of her grandmother’s travels in the Arctic Circle. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Apr)
The Stone Space
From ceramics and sculpture, find out more about Ovid’s magical stories and their influence in the display and gallery trail. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Apr)
Wallace Collection
An exhibition that marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act which legalised homosexuality in the UK. (Ending Soon Fri, 7th Apr)
LSE Library
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
Munks, a keen angler and artist, has made a series of photographs in which he has caught various coarse fish, dressed them in tiny hats and home-made wigs and photographed them underwater using a scuba camera. (Ending Soon Sun, 9th Apr)
Zabludowicz Collection
Free
Motherhood
At the centre of Susanne du Toit’s latest series of portraits, Motherhood, are three generations of the same family. (Ending Soon Wed, 12th Apr)
Felix & Spear
Free
Unknown Knowns
In two monumental triptychs, contemporary political narratives hijack traditional Chinese landscapes. (Ending Soon Fri, 14th Apr)
Edel Assanti
Free
Sacred Geometries
An exhibition of photography based on themes found in the sacred geometries. (Ending Soon Sat, 15th Apr)
Anise Gallery
A special exhibition of original illustrations by John Kenney for the 1965 Ladybird life of Dickens. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Apr)
Charles Dickens Museum
An exhibition about the woman in Admiral Horatio Nelson's life - Emma Hamilton. (Ending Soon Mon, 17th Apr)
£0
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)
This exhibition explores one of the most momentous periods in modern world history through the lens of its groundbreaking art. (Ending Soon Mon, 17th Apr)
Royal Academy of Arts
This exhibition brings together a body of works by 33 artists to show of architecture as art. (Ending Soon Fri, 21st Apr)
Griffin Gallery
£16.75
Adventures in Moominland
Explore the Moomins through the life of its author Tove Jansson (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)
Southbank Centre
This exhibition explores the world of driverless vehicles as part of Greenwich's GATEway project. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)
London Transport Museum
A display of eighty pages of original artwork from each decade of ‘the galaxy’s greatest comic’. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)
Cartoon Museum
An exhibition of board games from modern classics to 18th century historical games. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)
V&A Museum of Childhood
An immersive multi-channel video installation, created by conceptual documentary photographer and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)
Barbican Centre
This exhibition examines why radical artists and writers were drawn to the hills, seaside and villages of Sussex in the first half of the 20th century. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)
Two Temple Place
Explore Chamberlin, Powell and Bon's endeavour to combine spaciousness with high density development. (Ending Soon Wed, 26th Apr)
Barbican Centre
The Poster Parade looks at some of the classic designs that have gone on to provide inspiration for a new generation of artists. (Ending Soon Thu, 27th Apr)
London Transport Museum
Free
The William Charter
A chance to see the tiny charter document given by William the Conqueror to the City. (Ending Soon Thu, 27th Apr)
Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
An exhibition that celebrates 250 years of the jigsaw puzzle, the largest of its kind ever shown. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Apr)
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
Free
Larkinworld
Discover new perspectives in the poetry of Philip Larkin. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Apr)
Southbank Centre
The appeal of mutton chops, goatees and the most flamboyant of moustaches with a photographic exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Apr)
Florence Nightingale Museum
Ethical taxidermist Jazmine Miles-Long challenges ideas and perceptions of this art and craft. (Ending Soon Mon, 1st May)
Horniman Museum
This exhibition takes us on a journey through a selection of Arup’s conservation and heritage projects. (Ending Soon Fri, 5th May)
Arup Phase 2 gallery
This exhibition shows off coins and other objects that were defaced, usually to condemn the memory of deceased Roman Emperors. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th May)
The British Museum
Explore the work of designer and artist Josef Frank (1885-1967) in the first-ever UK exhibition of his textiles. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th May)
Fashion and Textile Museum
This exhibition explores the way artists and photographers responded to the bombing of London during WW2. (Ending Soon Mon, 8th May)
Museum of London
£13.50
Eduardo Paolozzi
This major Eduardo Paolozzi retrospective spans five decades and features over 250 works. (Ending Soon Sun, 14th May)
Whitechapel Gallery
A sumptuous display of over 70 fans decorated with biblical subjects. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st May)
Fan Museum
See Cagnacci’s masterpiece, on view in the UK for the first time in over thirty years (Ending Soon Sun, 21st May)
National Gallery
This exhibition examines what we think, feel and value about other species and the consequences this has for the world around us. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st May)
Wellcome Collection
Sir Quentin Blake has drawn special portraits of some of the most celebrated characters from Dahl’s stories. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st May)
British Library
£19.50
David Hockney
One of the most popular and influential British artists of the twentieth century returns to Tate Britain for his most comprehensive exhibition yet. (Ending Soon Mon, 29th May)
Tate Britain
A 13-minute robotic performance based on the last supper, where the robots discuss their views on sin, forgiveness, guilt and judgement (Ending Soon Mon, 29th May)
Science Museum
This is the first photography display that combines work by the British modern artist, Vanessa Bell and the American musician, writer and artist, Patti Smith. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Jun)
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Widely acclaimed as a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, Bell also stands on her own as a pivotal player in 20th century British art. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Jun)
Trace 60 years of a superpower in this major new exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 18th Jun)
The British Museum
This exhibition contemplates the contradictory life-giving and death-dealing extremes generated by electricity. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Jun)
Wellcome Collection
The biggest international competition of its kind, annually showcasing spectacular images shot by astrophotographers worldwide. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Jun)
This exhibition presents a renewed examination of two iconic architectural schemes proposed for the same site in the City of London. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Jun)
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
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
Collector of rarities, debunker of myths, inspiration to writers and doctors alike, conjuror of words, owner of a live ostrich and expert witness at a witch trial. (Ending Soon Thu, 27th Jul)
Royal College of Physicians Museum
Discover the remarkable 500- year story of humanoid robots (Ending Soon Sat, 19th Aug)
Science Museum
The most complete range of archaeological objects unearthed by Crossrail has gone on display. (Ending Soon Mon, 21st Aug)
Museum of London Docklands
This exhibition brings together several series of work by artist-photographer Edmund Clark to explore the hidden experiences of state control during the 'Global War on Terror'. (Ending Soon Wed, 23rd Aug)
Imperial War Museum
This is the first exhibition devoted to landscape drawings and watercolours by British artists in the Victorian and modern eras. (Ending Soon Sun, 27th Aug)
The British Museum
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
The world's largest LEGO exhibition inspired by DC Characters. (Ending Soon Mon, 4th Sep)
Doon Street Car Park
An exhibition of animals that have been recreated using a variety of familiar machine parts and gadgets to reveal how their real life counterparts see, eat, hunt and hide. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Oct)
Horniman Museum
This exhibition remembers the centenary of this battle and the massive medical and human impact of the wounds sustained during and beyond WW1. (Ending Soon Mon, 15th Jan)
Science Museum
