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 exhibition explores changes in gardening trends over the lifetime of the show from the 1960s to the present day. (Ending Soon Fri, 18th Aug)

RHS Lindley Library
SW1P 2PE
2017-08-17
Discover the remarkable 500- year story of humanoid robots  (Ending Soon Sat, 19th Aug)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2017-08-17
The most complete range of archaeological objects unearthed by Crossrail has gone on display. (Ending Soon Mon, 21st Aug)

Museum of London Docklands
E14 4AL
2017-08-17
The exhibition shows - in schematized images - details of completed projects by JSWD Architects. (Ending Soon Tue, 22nd Aug)

Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
W1B 1AD
2017-08-17
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
SE1 6HZ
2017-08-17
Explore the struggle for legitimacy and power during the Wars of the Roses, and the advent of the Tudor dynasty. (Ending Soon Fri, 25th Aug)

Society of Antiquaries of London
W1J 0BE
2017-08-17
A display of life-sized nature prints prior to an auction to raise money for an environmental charity. (Ending Soon Fri, 25th Aug)

The Royal Horticultural Halls
SW1P 2QD
2017-08-17
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
WC1B 3DG
2017-08-17
This exhibition documents the rise of London’s artists through a display of limited edition prints on loan from British Land. (Ending Soon Mon, 28th Aug)

Unknown
2017-08-17
£7  
A unique experience, +/- Human fuses an immersive installation with live dance. (Ending Soon Mon, 28th Aug)

Roundhouse
NW1 8EH
2017-08-17
Turner Prize-winner Chris Ofili unveils a new tapestry, handwoven by Dovecot Tapestry Studio  (Ending Soon Mon, 28th Aug)

The National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2017-08-17
I AM HERE is a Crafts Council touring exhibition of contemporary jewellery. (Ending Soon Mon, 28th Aug)

The Hospital Club
WC2H 9HQ
2017-08-17
Take a journey from the First World War to the present day, exploring how peace movements have influenced perceptions of war and conflict in this major exhibition. (Ending Soon Mon, 28th Aug)

Imperial War Museum
SE1 6HZ
2017-08-17
From the fall of Russia’s last Tsar to the rise of the communist state, this exhibition takes a look at the Russian Revolution 100 years on. (Ending Soon Tue, 29th Aug)

The British Library
NW1 2DB
2017-08-17
See sculpture from a Finnish artist who reimagines modern culture in monumental and mythic terms. (Ending Soon Wed, 30th Aug)

Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX
2017-08-17
This exhibition will take you on a journey through the history of the Stationers' Company, giving you a chance to see some of their most precious objects along the way. (Ending Soon Thu, 31st Aug)

Guildhall Library
EC2V 7HH
2017-08-17
This festival-style exhibition consists of more than 800 works, many of which have never been seen in the UK before.  (Ending Soon Fri, 1st Sep)

Barbican Centre
EC2Y 8DS
2017-08-17
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)

2017-08-17
An exhibition of 'junk' that has been recycled into something else, inspired by some William Robinson drawings. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

Heath Robinson Museum
HA5 1AE
2017-08-17
An exhibition featuring the best 100 entries from The Prize for Illustration 2017 (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

London Transport Museum
WC2E 7BB
2017-08-17
A substantial exhibition featuring around 200 original costumes, props, models, and pieces of artwork. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

O2 Arena / Millennium Dome
SE10 0DX
2017-08-17
A traveling exhibition made up from objects loaned by 6 theatre museums across Europe, showing the history of the theatre. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2017-08-17
The world's largest LEGO exhibition inspired by DC Characters. (Ending Soon Mon, 4th Sep)

Doon Street Car Park
SE1 2PP
2017-08-17
Discover the stories of Jewish immigrants ot the UK from across the Islamic world in this audio-visual exhibition. (Ending Soon Thu, 7th Sep)

Jewish Museum London
NW1 7NB
2017-08-17
If you built a museum of nature in the 21st century, what would it look like? (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)

Wellcome Collection
NW1 2BE
2017-08-17
The UK’s first ever exhibition of handmade background illustrations for classic sci-fi anime films. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)

House of Illustration
N1C 4BH
2017-08-17
To mark the 150th anniversary of Canada’s confederation, a display from the Canadian photographic collection. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)

The British Library
NW1 2DB
2017-08-17
This summer Grayson Perry will present a major exhibition of new work. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)

The Serpentine
W2 2UH
2017-08-17
Come and see the mosaics from the studios of Southbank Mosaics. (Ending Soon Thu, 14th Sep)

St Lawrence Jewry
EC2V 5AA
2017-08-17
This exhibition offers a feast of concept artwork, sketches, and published book illustrations.  (Ending Soon Sat, 16th Sep)

Illustration Cupboard
SW1Y 6AL
2017-08-17
Multi-sensory exhibition featuring ten extraordinary perfumes and their pioneering creators, who have radically changed our perceptions of fragrance over the last 20 years.  (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Sep)

Somerset House
WC2R 1LA
2017-08-17
Go among hundreds of live butterflies and moths in a tropical butterfly house. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Sep)

Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD
2017-08-17
From the trial of Oscar Wilde to the Same Sex Marriage Act, through personal testimony, public protest, art and culture. (Ending Soon Tue, 19th Sep)

The British Library
NW1 2DB
2017-08-17
Photographic exhibition of the architecture of Yemen. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd Sep)

Brunei Gallery
WC1H 0XG
2017-08-17
An exhibition the woman behind the music and beyond the hype. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)

Jewish Museum London
NW1 7NB
2017-08-17
The BP Portrait Award 2017 represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)

National Portrait Gallery
WC2H 0HE
2017-08-17
The summer opening of Buckingham Palace will tell the story of The Queen’s reign through a display of official gifts presented to Her Majesty. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)

Buckingham Palace
SW1A 1AA
2017-08-17
An exhibition about the life of James Brindley, who, together with the Duke of Bridgwater, and his land agent John Gilbert, was responsible for the UK's first modern commercial canal. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)

Canal Museum
N1 9RT
2017-08-17
A display of award winning photography by members of the Royal Air Force, (Ending Soon Mon, 25th Sep)

RAF Museum
NW9 5LL
2017-08-17
The exhibition enables visitors to explore documents, paintings and objects which demonstrate the profound changes in Parliament and democracy that occurred during the war years. (Ending Soon Thu, 28th Sep)

Palace of Westminster
SW1A 0AA
2017-08-17
Through the portraits of victims and perpetrators, the exhibition explores the legacy of medical research under Nazism, and its impact on bioethics today. (Ending Soon Fri, 29th Sep)

Wiener Library
WC1B 5DP
2017-08-17
The exhibition is made up of a series of panels exploring aspects of the war in the Middle East and its legacy, including a timeline of events. (Ending Soon Sat, 30th Sep)

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
WC1E 6BT
2017-08-17
This exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England.  (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Oct)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2017-08-17
The first international retrospective of one of the world's most iconic and influential bands. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Oct)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2017-08-17
Explore why artists and soldiers have painted scenes of conflict. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Oct)

National Army Museum
SW3 4HT
2017-08-17
Learn about a key moment in the history of art, when emphasis on observation and realism was born. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Oct)

The National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2017-08-17
The first major UK exhibition of watercolours by the artist, John Singer Sargent since 1918. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Oct)

Dulwich Picture Gallery
SE21 7AD
2017-08-17
£14  
While California’s mid-century modernism is well documented, this is the first exhibition to examine its current global reach. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Oct)

The Design Museum
W8 6AG
2017-08-17
This exhibition offers glimpses into LGBTQ histories, experiences and lives by examining objects from around the world,  (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Oct)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2017-08-17
This display highlights recent acquisitions of posters, prints, drawings, photographs and artists’ books. (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd Oct)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2017-08-17
The creative encounter between artists and sitters is explored in this exhibition featuring portrait drawings by some of the outstanding masters of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd Oct)

National Portrait Gallery
WC2H 0HE
2017-08-17
The exhibition explores a largely unknown and under-rated body of Dickens’s work that speaks plainly to social justice with energy and relevance—both then and now. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Oct)

Charles Dickens Museum
WC1N 2LX
2017-08-17
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
SE23 3PQ
2017-08-17
Free  
Come face-to-face with a Roman skull uncovered during excavations in the Walbrook Stream. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Oct)

Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
EC2V 5AE
2017-08-17
70 years of Concrete Quarterly explores the social and architectural history of concrete architecture and engineering over the past 70 years, (Ending Soon Mon, 30th Oct)

The Building Centre
WC1E 7BT
2017-08-17
A historical journey that shows you some of the longest, deepest and most advanced tunnels in the world. (Ending Soon Tue, 31st Oct)

Institution of Civil Engineers
SW1P 3AA
2017-08-17
The exhibition features examples of many well-known cartoon strips from newspapers and magazines from the past 100 years. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Nov)

Cartoon Museum
WC1A 2HH
2017-08-17
The exhibition presents a spectacular selection of eighteenth-century Venetian art, with Canaletto's greatest works. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Nov)

The Queen's Gallery
SW1A 1AA
2017-08-17
Free  
More than 120 objects have been brought together in an exploration of how the often-overlooked product has helped create the modern world. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Nov)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2017-08-17
This exhibition examines the British arrival in Helmand province, Afghanistan, and the decisions that shaped the way the conflict escalated and the lessons learnt. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Nov)

Imperial War Museum
SE1 6HZ
2017-08-17
Explore the history of the Wrens in Greenwich. New interviews and research offer a rare female perspective into the fascinating history of the Old Royal Naval College. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Dec)

Old Royal Naval College
SE10 9LW
2017-08-17
This is the exhibition on Balenciaga in the UK and marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of his first fashion house. (Ending Soon Tue, 5th Dec)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2017-08-17
An exhibition that provides a glimpse of the challenges and joys of theatrical life since the days of Elizabeth I. (Ending Soon Thu, 7th Dec)

London Metropolitan Archives
EC1R 0HB
2017-08-17
This exhibition provides snapshots of everyday lives as the metropolis expanded and new communities emerged over the centuries. (Ending Soon Fri, 15th Dec)

UCL Main Library
WC1E 6BTa
2017-08-17
Focussing on London through the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this exhibition traces the impact of the Reformation on culture and society. (Ending Soon Fri, 15th Dec)

Senate House Library
WC1E 7HU
2017-08-17
Falling Shawls is a floating textile installation that artist Outi Pieski describes as a ‘drawing in air’. (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Dec)

Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX
2017-08-17
This display explores the fascinating story of the Hall’s design through a variety of historic models, photographs and casts. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2017-08-17
An exhibition exploring the unsolved mystery of Sir John Franklin's fatal last journey into the Arctic. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)

National Maritime Museum
SE10 9NF
2017-08-17
Celebrate the golden era of toys and games, made in the borough by famous names such as Spears Games and Lesney Matchbox and played with by generations of local children. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)

Enfield Museum
EN2 6DS
2017-08-17
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
SW7 2DD
2017-08-17
This exhibition uses art, archaeology, and modern material culture to explore how seduction, sensuality, and sex have been represented through time. (Ending Soon Tue, 30th Jan)

A.G. Leventis Gallery
WC1H 0PY
2017-08-17
Explore the secrets behind Michael’s storytelling through his original drafts, adaptations, scripts and unpublished manuscripts. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Feb)

V&A Museum of Childhood
E2 9PA
2017-08-17
More than 100 specimens from the Museum's collection will be on display together for the first time, (Ending Soon Wed, 28th Feb)

Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD
2017-08-17
A display of more than 200 original illustrations of the nature of the British Isles. (Ending Soon Fri, 2nd Nov)

Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD
2017-08-17