Welcome to the IanVisits guide to free and cheap lectures, talks, heritage, walks and miscellany happening around London.
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Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon
This exhibition brings together works from the 17th century to the present day to illustrate how London’s ever-changing cityscape has inspired visiting and resident artists over four centuries.
10am to 5pm
City of London
Ends on Sun, 1st Dec
This exhibition traces the history of the Thameslink route from 1866 through to the recent £7bn modernisation programme which has transformed the route and untangled the tracks.
10am to 6pm Covent Garden Ends on Mon, 2nd Dec
Highlights include self-driving cars, autonomous flying drones and smart underwater vehicles like the Autosub Long Range Boaty McBoatface.
10am to 6pm South Kensington Ends on Sat, 21st Dec
This winter, more twinkling and fantastical than ever before, Christmas at Kew returns.
Starts at 12am Richmond Ends on Sun, 5th Jan 2020
Created in close collaboration with the artist, Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels, explores the development of Peyton’s unique art from the 1990s to the present day.
10am to 9pm Soho Ends on Sun, 5th Jan 2020
All of the paintings and engravings in Hogarth's series have been united for the first time to examine his complex views on morality, the society and the city.
10am to 5pm Holborn Ends on Sun, 5th Jan 2020
A huge floating "Moon" will fill a darkened room and it's oddly exciting to see
10am to 5:50pm South Kensington Ends on Sun, 5th Jan 2020
Discover artists who have risked their lives in times of conflict for the music they love.
10am to 6pm Southwark Ends on Sun, 5th Jan 2020
A series of striking photographs of science in action will soon go on display at the Science Museum as part of the Royal Photographic Society’s inaugural Science Photographer of the Year competition.
10am to 6pm South Kensington Ends on Sun, 5th Jan 2020
To celebrate 50 years since NASA’s Apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on the Moon, the UK’s biggest exhibition dedicated to Earth’s nearest celestial neighbour.
10am to 5pm Greenwich Ends on Sun, 5th Jan 2020
Walking tours of London on Friday 29th November 2019
Are you ready to learn about London’s grim and gruesome past? Then join us on a tour that tells the tale of crime and punishment, executions and excess.
11am to 12:45pm City of London
Discover more about this much-loved London hospital, whose history dates back nearly 900 years!
2pm to 3:30pm Barbican
Tower Bridge opening times
Tower Bridge is not due to open today. The next scheduled opening is on Sat 7th Dec at 07:30am
