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Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon
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
Jide Odukoya’s photographic series shows Nigeria abuzz through the lens of traditional Nigerian weddings.
10am to 5:30pm Forest Hill Ends on Sun, 5th Jan 2020
Discover what it was like to go to a show in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain
10am to 5pm Clerkenwell Ends on Sun, 5th Jan 2020
The exhibition explores why cultural heritage is attacked during war and the ways we save, protect and restore what is targeted.
10am to 6pm Southwark Ends on Sun, 5th Jan 2020
Walking tours of London on Friday 27th December 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 Tue 31st Dec at 11:30pm
