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.

A collection of US tabloid front covers, enlarged to two metres high, featuring a headline that relates to Donald Trump’s business dealings, political aspirations or personal life. (Ending Soon Thu, 7th Feb)

Hayward Gallery
SE1 8XX
2019-02-06
Disrupting the Futurecity explores the way in which international artists are positively disrupting our cities, shaping the way we inhabit and engage with public space. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Feb)

Foyles
WC2H 0DT
2019-02-06
Disrupting the Futurecity
Discover the expressive sensitivity and immediacy of Lorenzo Lotto’s portraits in the first UK exhibition of its kind (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Feb)

The National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2019-02-06
Come face-to-face with the illusion of a living Jeremy Bentham: philosopher, social reformer and inventor of the Panopticon. (Ending Soon Mon, 11th Feb)

South Cloisters
WC1E 6HJ
2019-02-06
Marcus Lyall: Portrait of Jeremy Bentham
A landmark exhibition on the history, art, literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England. (Ending Soon Tue, 19th Feb)

The British Library
NW1 2DB
2019-02-06
Joseph Bazalgette as Captain Sanitation! Thomas Telford as Colossus! Andy Mitchell as Infrastructo! They’re the superheroes who built, and are still building London. (Ending Soon Fri, 22nd Feb)

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
SW1P 3AA
2019-02-06
Invisible Superheroes
One of the last Pre-Raphaelites, Edward Burne-Jones brought imaginary worlds to life in awe-inspiring paintings, stained glass windows and tapestries (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Feb)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2019-02-06
Edward Burne-Jones
An exhibition exploring the connection between Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dalí, starting from their one meeting, to which Dalí brought his recently completed painting The Metamorphosis of Narcissus. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Feb)

Freud Museum
NW3 5SX
2019-02-06
Freud, Dalí and the Metamorphosis of Narcissus
This major exhibition tells the story of Ashurbanipal through the British Museum’s unparalleled collection of Assyrian treasures and rare loans. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Feb)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2019-02-06
This exhibition brings back to Strawberry Hill some of the most important masterpieces in Horace Walpole’s famous and unique collection for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Feb)

Strawberry Hill
TW1 4ST
2019-02-06
Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill: Masterpieces from Horace Walpole's Collection
Explore the design and culture of contemporary videogames  (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Feb)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2019-02-06
Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt
A selection of works that demonstrate the impact of digital technology on design have been brought together in this exhibition. (Ending Soon Fri, 1st Mar)

Arup Phase 2 gallery
W1T 4BQ
2019-02-06
Plug-in-to-the-future: Changing approaches to design
This exhibition features over 40 original paintings from his time with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Mar)

National Army Museum
SW3 4HT
2019-02-06
Alfred Munnings: War Artist, 1918
From flamboyant uniforms to fast horses, this exhibition looks at the shared heritage between the Hungarian and British hussars. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Mar)

National Army Museum
SW3 4HT
2019-02-06
Call in the Cavalry
Snoopy comes to London in this exhibition of Charles M. Schulz original Peanuts cartoons. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Mar)

Somerset House
WC2R 1LA
2019-02-06
Good Grief, Charlie Brown!
This exhibition explores how our built environment contributes to our physical and mental health in both positive and negative ways.  (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Mar)

Wellcome Collection
NW1 2BE
2019-02-06
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
W11 1QT
2019-02-06
This exhibition explores new ways of analysing, reconstructing and contextualising Leonardo’s designs for perpetual motion. (Ending Soon Tue, 12th Mar)

The Peltz Gallery
WC1H 0PD
2019-02-06
Leonardo da Vinci and Perpetual Motion: Visualising Impossible Machines
Using rarely seen books, artworks and objects, the displays examine the themes of illustrating, opening, mapping, knowing and treating the human body. (Ending Soon Fri, 15th Mar)

Royal College Of Physicians
NW1 4LE
2019-02-06
Under the skin: illustrating the human body
Whether raising a smile, solving a crime, wreaking magical havoc or even performing in theatre, cats take centre stage in this free exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Mar)

The British Library
NW1 2DB
2019-02-06
Cats on the Page
This multi-screen installation by artist John Akomfrah remembers the millions of African men and women who participated in the First World War (Ending Soon Thu, 21st Mar)

Imperial War Museum
SE1 6HZ
2019-02-06
This exhibition of over 100 of these extraordinary film posters celebrates the talent of the varied artists who used to produce these posters, that with advances in digital printing are no longer in demand. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd Mar)

Brunei Gallery
WC1H 0XG
2019-02-06
Hollywood; Bollywood and Nollywood film posters from Ghana
Explore today’s home through the prism of yesterday’s imagination. Are we living in the way that pioneering architects and designers throughout the 20th century predicted, or has our idea of home proved resistant to real change? (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Mar)

The Design Museum
W8 6AG
2019-02-06
Explore the extraordinary lives and deaths of Tsar Nicholas II and his family and go behind the scenes to uncover the science behind one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Mar)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2019-02-06
The Last Tsar: Blood and Revolution
The exhibition showcases how humanity has used medicine to extend life and defy death throughout time. (Ending Soon Wed, 27th Mar)

A.G. Leventis Gallery
WC1H 0PY
2019-02-06
Defying Death: A Human Journey Through Medicine
An exhibition of dog photographs by Thomas Fall. (Ending Soon Fri, 29th Mar)

The Kennel Club
W1J 8AB
2019-02-06
Promoting the Pedigree through Photography: Thomas Fall
This exhibition explores the first 30 years of the Building Centre through its archive collection. (Ending Soon Sat, 30th Mar)

The Building Centre
WC1E 7BT
2019-02-06
 A seedbed of ideas: The Building Centre, notes from the archive
In this immersive sound installation, 32 people who fought and lived through the First World War share their personal stories of the Armistice. (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Mar)

Imperial War Museum
SE1 6HZ
2019-02-06
Two artists – born centuries apart – explore the same universal themes with works of transcendent beauty and raw emotional power.  (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Mar)

Royal Academy of Arts
W1J 0BD
2019-02-06
Discover more about Georgian Black Londoners, alongside a collection of rare and unusual portraits of Black Georgians. (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Mar)

Bruce Castle Museum
N17 8NU
2019-02-06
Black Georgian Londoners: Portraits, People and Perceptions
Through a rich collection of photographs, discover the innovation and resourcefulness that shaped the rebuilding and regeneration of the world post-war, revealing resilience and creativity in times of great change. (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Mar)

Imperial War Museum
SE1 6HZ
2019-02-06
The Oscar Wilde Temple is a wholly immersive work of art and secular space honouring one of the earliest forebears of gay liberation. (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Mar)

Studio Voltaire
SW4 7JR
2019-02-06
The Oscar Wilde Temple
Collectively these portraits and stories speak across continents and generations of an extraordinary post-war emigration of women who made a leap of faith for the love of an airman. (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Apr)

RAF Museum
NW9 5LL
2019-02-06
War Brides
An exhibition that looks at how the world has tried (and often failed) to secure peace in the 20th century. (Ending Soon Wed, 17th Apr)

LSE Library
WC2A 2HD
2019-02-06
Giving Peace a Chance: from the League of Nations to Greenham Common
The Charles Dickens Museum explores the pivotal role of food in the author’s life and novels and give new insights into the experience of dining with Dickens. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st Apr)

Charles Dickens Museum
WC1N 2LX
2019-02-06
Food Glorious Food: Dinner with Dickens
This is the V&A Museum of Childhood’s first major exhibition to focus on fictional pirates and their influence in popular culture. (Ending Soon Mon, 22nd Apr)

V&A Museum of Childhood
E2 9PA
2019-02-06
A Pirate’s Life for Me
The exhibition showcases significant objects from Sheffield’s Guild of St George Ruskin Collection whilst also drawing on the collections of museums and galleries. (Ending Soon Mon, 22nd Apr)

Two Temple Place
WC2R 3BD
2019-02-06
John Ruskin - The Power of Seeing
A display of paintings which depict landscapes, river views and street scenes in Tower Hamlets. (Ending Soon Thu, 25th Apr)

Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives
E1 4DQ
2019-02-06
Painting the Hamlets
The exhibition is an exploration of how the proposed causes and cures are represented within the art collection of Bethlem Museum of the Mind. (Ending Soon Fri, 26th Apr)

Bethlem Museum of the Mind
BR3 3BX
2019-02-06
Portraits, sculpture, photographs, archival documents and miniature masterpieces by Fabergé illustrate historic events and family meetings between the rulers of the two nations.  (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Apr)

The Queen's Gallery
SW1A 1AA
2019-02-06
 Russia, Royalty & the Romanovs
From Rossetti, Millais and Burne-Jones to Perry, Latham and Pecchioli, join the dreamers where reality meets imagination. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Apr)

Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
EC2V 5AE
2019-02-06
Visions and Visionaries
The exhibition features ceramic artworks dispensing scents inspired by the Horniman Gardens, and a soundscape based on the chemical processes occurring in plants and trees.  (Ending Soon Tue, 30th Apr)

Horniman Museum
SE23 3PQ
2019-02-06
The Lore of the Land
Explore this surreal lost property office where you will uncover stories in the most unlikely places. (Ending Soon Fri, 3rd May)

Barbican Centre
EC2Y 8DS
2019-02-06
Unclaimed - The Liminal Space
This exhibition is the story of humanity’s ever-changing relationship with our nearest star. (Ending Soon Mon, 6th May)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2019-02-06
This display presents six innovative projects from the collections of the RIBA and the V&A, each demonstrating a unique experiment in social housing design. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th May)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2019-02-06
A Home for All: Six Experiments in Social Housing
This exhibition explores the objects people used to make music, what they sounded like, and how instruments were used in Romano-Egyptian rituals, homes, and childhood. (Ending Soon Sat, 8th Jun)

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
WC1E 6BT
2019-02-06
Sounds of Roman Egypt
An exhibition that covers a long period in the history of magic, from the 16th to the early 20th century. (Ending Soon Sat, 15th Jun)

Senate House Library
WC1E 7HU
2019-02-06
Staging Magic – The Story Behind The Illusion
Women were inspired to serve their country by Florence Nightingale's work. But in 1918, as WW1 approached its end, nothing could have prepared them for what was to come - the deadly Spanish Flu. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Jun)

Florence Nightingale Museum
SE1 7EW
2019-02-06
Free  
Drector and photographer James Morgan set out to capture the lives of the Bajau Laut, the world’s last true marine nomads. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Jun)

Horniman Museum
SE23 3PQ
2019-02-06
Sea Nomads
This exhibition showcases extraordinary animal behaviour and the breathtaking diversity of life on Earth. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Jun)

Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD
2019-02-06
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
From 1947 to the present day, this exhibition traces the history and impact of one of the 20th century’s most influential couturiers, and the six directors who have succeeded him, to explore the enduring influence of the fashion house. (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Jul)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2019-02-06
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams
A selection of Turner’s illustrations for Sir Walter Scott’s poetry and prose, part of the house’s permanent collection. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Jul)

Turners House
TW1 2LR
2019-02-06
Showcasing the most spectacular space photography of its kind, the exhibition celebrates ten years of awe-inspiring images shot by astrophotographers worldwide. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Aug)

Royal Observatory Greenwich
SE10 8XJ
2019-02-06
Astronomy Photographer of the Year Exhibition