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: Monday, 12th August 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
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
The visual artist and Royal Academician explores “landscape” in its broadest sense (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Aug)
Royal Academy of Arts
Free
Exoskeleton East
Through this exhibition, biomimetic design elements as well as the multilayering of fluid identities and dress are explored. (Ending Soon Wed, 15th Aug)
The Old Bank Vault
The 250th annual exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Aug)
Royal Academy of Arts
A display of automata from the leading makers of the last 40 years, ranging from the humorous to the macabre and from the playful to the satirical. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Aug)
Heath Robinson Museum
£14.50
Lee Bul
This mid-career survey of the work of acclaimed South Korean artist Lee Bul – the first in London – explores the artist’s extensive investigation into the body and its relationship to architectural space. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Aug)
Hayward Gallery
Mark 100 years since the iconic leader’s birth, in this exhibition about his fight for equality. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Aug)
Southbank Centre
The Great Spectacle tells the story of 250 years of the Summer Exhibition, the world’s longest running annual display of contemporary art. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Aug)
Royal Academy of Arts
Hundreds of genuine Spice Girls stage costumes on display beside thousands of items of memorabilia and merchandise. (Ending Soon Mon, 20th Aug)
Business Design Centre
Free
Inside North Korea
This collection of photographs taken in 2015 by architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright offers the opportunity to step into one of the most restricted and enigmatic places on the planet Inside North Korea. (Ending Soon Tue, 21st Aug)
Foyles
Free
Print! Tearing It Up
This exhibition charts the evolution of polemic and progressive print publications and celebrates the current diverse industry of innovative independent magazines. (Ending Soon Wed, 22nd Aug)
Somerset House
A striking presentation of three works by the internationally-renowned artist, Emily Allchurch. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Aug)
Sir John Soane's 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
The exhibition focuses on the early, 'radical moment' of Postmodernism, which it reveals to be one of the most inventive periods in British architectural history (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Aug)
Sir John Soane's Museum
This exhibition tells the story of Captain James Cook’s three world-changing voyages through original documents, many of which were produced by the artists, scientists and sailors on board the ships. (Ending Soon Tue, 28th Aug)
The British Library
£19.99
Sea Creatures
Using a plastination process that keeps the specimens perfectly preserved, the exhibition reveals not only what lies beneath the waves, but also beneath fur, skin and scales. (Ending Soon Thu, 30th Aug)
The Royal Horticultural Halls
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 features photos drawn from a collection of around 9000 B&W photos taken in the 1960s. (Ending Soon Sat, 1st Sep)
Southwark Cathedral
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
This mini exhibition aims to narrate the stories of the children who populated Hamstead. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Sep)
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum
British artist Jodie Carey creates three new site-responsive installations. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Sep)
Foundling Museum
Fifty years since the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia quashed the Prague Spring we look at how cartoonists in the Czech and British press interpreted the politics of the time through humour. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Sep)
Vitrínka - Czech Centre Gallery
£16.50
Edward Bawden
A major retrospective of work by the celebrated British artist and designer, Edward Bawden RA CBE (1903-89). (Ending Soon Sun, 9th Sep)
Dulwich Picture Gallery
This display explores the changing image of the West India Regiments from their creation at the end of the 18th century up to the First World War. (Ending Soon Sun, 9th Sep)
Museum of London Docklands
This is the first ever solo Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Modern. (Ending Soon Sun, 9th Sep)
Tate Modern
£5.85
Sensational Butterflies
See hundreds of live butterflies and moths up-close in a tropical butterfly house. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Sep)
Natural History Museum
Free
Teeth
From folk remedies and tooth fairies to barber-surgeons and professional dentists, Teeth tells the tale of our pursuit of a pain-free mouth and the perfect smile. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Sep)
Wellcome Collection
Exploring the impact of World War One on British, German and French art (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Sep)
Tate Britain
An exhibition of feather fans from around the world. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Sep)
The Fan Museum
Free
Empire of the Sikhs
Over 100 dazzling artworks and objects tells the story of a cosmopolitan empire that almost ended British rule in India (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Sep)
Brunei Gallery
René Goscinny’s story is brought to life through rare original scripts, storyboards, photographs, films, sketches, dressing up stations, games, and more than a little wild boar. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Sep)
Jewish Museum London
This display explains the project, and showcases highlights of its work across the country so far. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Sep)
The British Museum
The summer opening of Buckingham Palace, with an art display curated by the Prince of Wales. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Sep)
Buckingham Palace
A celebratory show that will explore the past, present and future of ice cream. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Sep)
British Museum of Food
£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
This exhibition delves into the history behind the School’s creation, its iconic uniform, historic practices, and charitable benefactors. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Oct)
Museum of London
See Ed Ruscha's modern take on the cyclical nature of civilisation, evocative of Thomas Cole's series of the same name (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Oct)
The National Gallery
An open air exhibition featuring works by 25 contemporary and modern artists presented by world-leading galleries. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Oct)
The Regents Park
Discover one of America’s leading painters of the mid-19th century. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Oct)
The National Gallery
An exhibition exploring the first 30 years of the Building Centre through its archive collection.From material libraries and the Blitz, to seminal exhibitions of women architects, Spanish modernism and le Corbusier. (Ending Soon Fri, 12th Oct)
The Building Centre
For the first time, Tate Modern tells the intertwined stories of photography and abstract art (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Oct)
Tate Modern
The works of art on display span a geographical expanse from Kashmir to Kerala and a period of more than 400 years. (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Oct)
The Queen's Gallery
This exhibition explores the influence of Michael Jackson on some of the leading names in contemporary art, (Ending Soon Sun, 21st Oct)
National Portrait Gallery
Revisit 1948 and explore how the Windrush story is much more than the dawn of British multiculturalism it has come to represent. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st Oct)
The British Library
An award-winning exhibition exploring the endless ways in which colour shapes our world. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Oct)
Horniman Museum
Free
Roman Dead
A major exhibition about the burial and funeral rites of Roman London. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Oct)
Museum of London Docklands
Extreme training. Secret missions. Total dedication. Explore the hidden world of the Special Forces. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Oct)
National Army Museum
Free
Sublime Symmetry
Uncover the mathematics behind De Morgan’s exquisite work. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Oct)
Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
Explore the remarkable story of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) from the opposition and immense challenges faced by early pioneers to the latest research today. (Ending Soon Wed, 31st Oct)
Science Museum
A display of more than 200 original illustrations of the nature of the British Isles. (Ending Soon Fri, 2nd Nov)
Natural History Museum
This exhibition investigates and reveals Dickens’s deep and influential interest in medicine, chemistry, geology, the energy of the Earth and the ability of science to drive change. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Nov)
Charles Dickens Museum
£12.50
London Nights
Discover the city at night through the eyes of photographers from the late 19th century to the present day. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Nov)
Museum of London
£11.50
Life in the Dark
Leave daylight behind and put your senses to the test in this illuminating exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Jan)
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
