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, 13th September 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
The Wiener Library’s exhibition tells the story of the Third Reich’s campaign against ‘degenerate’ art and its international response. (Ending Soon Fri, 14th Sep)
Wiener Library
Free
Immortalised
From statues and street names, to shrines and temporary artworks, Immortalised explores the variety of ways people and events have been commemorated in England, past and present. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Sep)
The Workshop
£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
A large number of film collectables including from Star Wars and the Raiders of the Lost Ark will be on display for two weeks ahead of an auction. (Ending Soon Thu, 20th Sep)
BFI Imax
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
This exhibition uncovers the intricacies of the NT’s architecture, exploring its complex composition and the layers of history that Denys Lasdun buried within it. (Ending Soon Sat, 29th Sep)
The National Theatre
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
An exhibition about 4 formative years in the 1980s music scene. (Ending Soon Wed, 3rd Oct)
Barbican Centre
Free
Disappear Here
A new commission which leads the visitor through deceptive murals, cunning architectural structures and a newly commissioned film to trace the lineage of perspective across centuries and technologies. (Ending Soon Sat, 6th Oct)
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
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
Holloway Prison has been an important landmark in Islington for over 150 years. Thousands of women passed through its doors until it closed in 2016. This exhibition explores their stories. (Ending Soon Mon, 8th Oct)
Islington Museum
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
An exhibition of radical self-portraiture from the 1960s to the present day. (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Oct)
Hayward Gallery
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
Free
Digital Turn
Digital Turn is a platform for those who dare to dream about how we can better imagine, create and build the spaces we live in. (Ending Soon Fri, 19th Oct)
The Building Centre
This exhibition explores the East London Federation of the Suffragettes (ELFS) campaign for the vote. (Ending Soon Fri, 19th Oct)
Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives
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
The exhibition presents an illustration of how craftsmanship and small industry are embedded in tradition, embrace the new, and adapt in a changing society. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Oct)
Japan House
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
Free
Forgotten London
London's lost buildings – from coaching inns and horse markets to riverside mansions and gin palaces – are the focus of a this exhibition. (Ending Soon Wed, 31st Oct)
London Metropolitan Archives
A display of more than 200 original illustrations of the nature of the British Isles. (Ending Soon Fri, 2nd Nov)
Natural History Museum
Explore an exclusive range of journals, logs and records that date back to the 1700s. (Ending Soon Sat, 3rd Nov)
The Royal Society of Medicine
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
This exhibition features two very talented Edwardian female illustrators whose work has been largely forgotten. (Ending Soon Sun, 18th Nov)
Heath Robinson Museum
Discover this year’s top picks across fashion, architecture, digital, transport, product and graphic design. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Jan)
The Design Museum
£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
History, as somebody wise once said, is just one damned thing after another. But is it really? Who decides what is ‘history’? (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Jan)
The British Museum
This exhibition presents fifty original magazine covers from Time Out’s archive and explores the stories behind them. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Mar)
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
An exhibition of dog photographs by Thomas Fall. (Ending Soon Fri, 29th Mar)
The Kennel Club