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: Friday, 26th April 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
The wilds of the southernmost tip of South America are explored in a new exhibition from seven international professional travel and nature photographers. (Ending Soon Fri, 27th Apr)
Coningsby Gallery
The exhibition explores the ideas and skills that go into great underground structures and looks to a future where smart subterranean construction can contribute ever greater benefits. (Ending Soon Sat, 28th Apr)
The Building Centre
A large exhibition devoted to the music sensation. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Apr)
Southbank Centre
This exhibition of new and recent work by artist Louise Weir, takes visitors on an investigative journey of memory, identity and loss informed by Charles Dickens’s classic novel, Great Expectations. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Apr)
Charles Dickens Museum
Free
Harmonics in Space
A room full of coloured shapes and sounds. It's art. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Apr)
Now Gallery
Painter of London life Ed Gray exhibits his paintings of everyday London life. (Ending Soon Mon, 30th Apr)
St Martin in the Fields
Free
Concrete Dreams
A journey behind the scenes encountering collections, installations, audiovisual content and live performances that reveal the stories of Southbank Centre's 1960s buildings. (Ending Soon Tue, 1st May)
Southbank Centre
This is a selection from the photographic project tracing the route of the new Elizabeth Line across central London, recording people and places encountered along the way. (Ending Soon Fri, 4th May)
Heritage Gallery
Five multi-award-winning photographers – Poulomi Basu, Sam Faulkner, Adam Ferguson, Ashley Gilbertson and Andrew Quilty – have documented the lives of people around the world who have been affected by blindness that could, and should, have been avoided. (Ending Soon Fri, 4th May)
London Bridge City Pier
A display of Crossrail artworks, material such as maquettes, sketches and prototypes. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th May)
Whitechapel Gallery
£15.50
David Milne: Modern Painting
This exhibition brings together more than ninety works in oil and watercolour, never-before-exhibited photographs and drawings by the artist. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th May)
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Early Printed Fans brings together a diverse array of fans from The Fan Museum’s collections. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th May)
The Fan Museum
Explore the T-shirt in the 20th Century through this exhibition; charting the history, culture and subversion of the most affordable and popular item of clothing on the planet. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th May)
Fashion and Textile Museum
Free
TYPE
A collection of rare and sought after artworks from some of the most exciting British artists in the contemporary art world. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th May)
Hang-Up Gallery
£11
The Lost Words
The relationship between language and the living world is celebrated in this exhibition of poetry and illustration (Ending Soon Sun, 6th May)
Foundling Museum
A rare opportunity to see stunning paintings, pastels, and drawings by leading French Impressionist Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas. (Ending Soon Mon, 7th May)
The National Gallery
£19.70
Impressionists in London
This exhibition presents captivating works by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro and their compatriots. (Ending Soon Mon, 7th May)
Tate Britain
This exhibition shows the rich material world of Charles II's court and the role of the arts in the re-establishment of the Stuart monarchy. (Ending Soon Fri, 11th May)
The Queen's Gallery
American-born artist Nancy Fouts is best known for her distinctive sculptural works, which reconfigure commonplace objects and materials with a characteristically playful and provocative humour. (Ending Soon Sat, 12th May)
Flowers Gallery
This display examines the background to the first soldier of African descent to be awarded the Victoria Cross. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th May)
Museum of London Docklands
Enter the realm of venomous creatures in this eye-opening exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th May)
Natural History Museum
See a unique series of watercolours of the interior and precincts of the Abbey church by the artist Alexander Cresswell. (Ending Soon Wed, 16th May)
Westminster Abbey
Free
Under the Microscope
This exhibition and art installation brings together a variety of media and archival material, from biological slides and scientific papers to photogr (Ending Soon Wed, 16th May)
Guildhall Library
This exhibition is about the Neo-Romantic period in illustration after World War II. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th May)
Heath Robinson Museum
This exhibition brings together, for the first time, the works of four of the most celebrated figures in art photography. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th May)
National Portrait Gallery
The only known self-portraits by Spanish master Murillo, reunited for the first time in over three hundred years. (Ending Soon Mon, 21st May)
The National Gallery
Touching on themes of countercultures, subcultures and minorities of all kinds, the show features the work of 20 photographers from the 1950s to the present day. (Ending Soon Sun, 27th May)
Barbican Centre
The UK’s first major exhibition of artists’ responses to war and conflict since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001. (Ending Soon Mon, 28th May)
Imperial War Museum
Explore still life through the lens of Tacita Dean, one of the genre's leading contemporary practitioners (Ending Soon Mon, 28th May)
The National Gallery
Learn about global efforts made after the Holocaust to find Zuzana Knobloch and millions of others like her. (Ending Soon Wed, 30th May)
Wiener Library
This exhibition commemorates the centenary of this momentous battle and the huge medical and human impact of wounding during and beyond the First World War. (Ending Soon Thu, 31st May)
Science Museum
Photographs have been selected to illustrate the impact, diversity and quality of work by AOP members since 1968. (Ending Soon Fri, 1st Jun)
One Canada Square
Free
Just Type
A typography based exhibition featuring new works from 6 artists who have a long connection with letters in various forms and colours. (Ending Soon Sat, 9th Jun)
Hanbury Hall
Free
Fatberg!
A display of the last remaining parts of the Whitechapel fatberg. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Jul)
The Museum of London
This exhibition places William Harvey where he truly belongs: at the heart of the history of medicine, science and our modern understanding of the human body and life itself. (Ending Soon Thu, 26th Jul)
Royal College Of Physicians
One exhibition featuring Monet’s paintings and nothing else? That’s a rare thing. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Jul)
The National Gallery
£25.50
Dinosaurs In The Wild
Animatronic dinosaurs come to North Greenwich (Ending Soon Tue, 31st Jul)
The O2
Discover how graphic design has played a pivotal role in dictating and reacting to the major political moments of our times. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Aug)
The Design Museum
Free
Somewhere in Between
This exhibition considers how artists can give shape to the human experience, provoking ideas about our senses, our sexual health, our bodies’ limitations and reflections on our food chain. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Aug)
Wellcome Collection
This exhibition concentrates on the last (and often bitter) years of the long campaign of the struggle for women's right to vote from 1908 - 1914. (Ending Soon Fri, 31st Aug)
LSE Library
This exhibition explores Pell’s art, life, identity and search for sanctuary. (Ending Soon Fri, 31st Aug)
Bethlem Museum of the Mind
Discover the history of Bridge House Estates, the organisation that oversaw the entire construction of Tower Bridge over a century ago and continues to maintain it to this day. (Ending Soon Sat, 1st Sep)
Tower Bridge Exhibition
The 20th century’s most iconic and influential Nordic designs for children, from BRIO to LEGO, Marimekko and the Moomins have been brought together for the first time in this new exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Sep)
V&A Museum of Childhood
£10.35
The Great British Seaside
The Great British Seaside celebrates six decades of our love affair with the beach. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Sep)
National Maritime Museum
An award-winning exhibition exploring the endless ways in which colour shapes our world. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Oct)
Horniman Museum
A display of more than 200 original illustrations of the nature of the British Isles. (Ending Soon Fri, 2nd Nov)
Natural History Museum
Free
Votes for Women
A display featuring iconic objects from the museum’s vast Suffragette collection, including Emmeline Pankhurst’s hunger strike medal. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Jan)
The Museum of London
An exhibition that reveals sunken, forgotten letters recently recovered from a shipwreck. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Jan)
The Postal Museum
Free
Dream On
An exhibition which explores dreams, the unconscious and an imaginary world between sleep and wakefulness. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Jan)
V&A Museum of Childhood
