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.

Step inside to join the rebel celebrations and discover centuries-old traditions that were forced to go underground in the 1600s. (Ending Soon Sat, 4th Jan)

The National Archives
TW9 4DU
2020-01-02
1657: Rebel Christmas
To celebrate the work of Freddy Warren, a selection of photographs are showcased in this exhibition that captures the atmosphere and movement of jazz. (Ending Soon Sat, 4th Jan)

Barbican Centre
EC2Y 8DS
2020-01-02
Ronnie Scott's 1959-69 - Photography by Freddy Warren
This winter, more twinkling and fantastical than ever before, Christmas at Kew returns. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jan)

Kew Gardens
TW9 3AE
2020-01-02
Christmas at Kew 2019
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. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jan)

National Portrait Gallery
WC2H 0HE
2020-01-02
Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels
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. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jan)

Sir John Soane's Museum
WC2A 3BP
2020-01-02
Hogarth: Place and Progress
The Museum of Architecture brings its hugely popular Gingerbread City exhibition to Somerset House. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jan)

Somerset House
WC2R 1LA
2020-01-02
Museum of Architecture's Gingerbread City
A huge floating "Moon" will fill a darkened room and it's oddly exciting to see (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jan)

Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD
2020-01-02
Museum of the Moon
Discover artists who have risked their lives in times of conflict for the music they love. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jan)

Imperial War Museum
SE1 6HZ
2020-01-02
Rebel Sounds
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. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jan)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2020-01-02
Science Photographer of the Year
£9  
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. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jan)

National Maritime Museum
SE10 9NF
2020-01-02
The Moon
Jide Odukoya’s photographic series shows Nigeria abuzz through the lens of traditional Nigerian weddings.  (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jan)

Horniman Museum
SE23 3PQ
2020-01-02
Turn It Up: On Paradoxes
Discover what it was like to go to a show in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jan)

Foundling Museum
WC1N 1AZ
2020-01-02
Two Last Nights! Show Business in Georgian Britain
The exhibition explores why cultural heritage is attacked during war and the ways we save, protect and restore what is targeted. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jan)

Imperial War Museum
SE1 6HZ
2020-01-02
What Remains
This light and sound installation will invite the public to experience and reflect on animated scenes depicting the consequences of climate change as they unfold beneath their feet. (Ending Soon Fri, 10th Jan)

Bloomberg Building
EC4N 4TQ
2020-01-02
Imminence 2019
An Exhibition of original Westwood McLaren couture clothing 1971-1980. (Ending Soon Sat, 11th Jan)

The Horse Hospital
WC1N 1JD
2020-01-02
Vive Le Punk: Redressed
An 18-metre-wide sculpture fills the entire gallery space, with mirrored planes multiplying its dimensions to enable a reimagining of time and space. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Jan)

Pitshanger Park
W5 1LS
2020-01-02
Es Devlin Memory Palace
A striking series of works emphasising the importance of glaciers and our changing global climate. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Jan)

Horniman Museum
SE23 3PQ
2020-01-02
MELTDOWN: Visualizing Climate Change
Currently enjoying a resurgence in practice and teaching, this display is a timely celebration of drawing. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Jan)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2020-01-02
Pushing paper - contemporary drawing from 1970 to now
This exhibition presents the rich variety of objects from Java and Sumatra collected by Sir Stamford Raffles, the British colonial official who founded modern Singapore. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Jan)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2020-01-02
Sir Stamford Raffles - Collecting in Southeast Asia 1811-1824
An exhibition of the life and leadership of a great Australian and one of the most remarkable and highly decorated womens’ leaders of the First World War, Dame Maud McCarthy, Matron-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914-1919. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Jan)

Oxford House
E2 6HG
2020-01-02
The
Discover the remarkable world of codebreaking, ciphers and secret communications in use by British and foreign governments.  (Ending Soon Sat, 18th Jan)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2020-01-02
Top Secret: From ciphers to cyber security
An exhibition of original Cuban propaganda posters and magazines. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Jan)

House of Illustration
N1C 4BH
2020-01-02
Designed in Cuba: Cold War Graphics
A journey into the world’s most iconic cabarets, cafés and clubs in modern art through the lens of pioneering artists. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Jan)

Barbican Centre
EC2Y 8DS
2020-01-02
Into the Night - Cabarets & Clubs in Modern Art
ON EDGE aims to open conversation around the causes of and responses to anxiety today through art, design, psychology and neuroscience. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Jan)

Science Gallery London
SE1 9GU
2020-01-02
ON EDGE: Living in an Age of Anxiety
An exhibition that combines art, design, psychology and neuroscience to highlight positive and creative responses when dealing with anxiety.  (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Jan)

Science Gallery London
SE1 9SU
2020-01-02
ON EDGE: Living in an Age of Anxiety
This exhibition charts IPR’s development over the past 50 years, from its response to welfare reform to its continued endeavour to meet the changing needs of local residents. (Ending Soon Tue, 21st Jan)

Islington Museum
EC1V 4NB
2020-01-02
Fifty years of tackling poverty in Islington
The Art of Innovation explores the relationship between science and art over the past 250 years, and how it has helped to interpret, study and explore the world around us. (Ending Soon Fri, 24th Jan)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2020-01-02
This display of selected clothes, accessories and memorabilia demonstrates Hartnell’s innovation and lasting effect on British design and craftsmanship. (Ending Soon Sat, 25th Jan)

Fashion and Textile Museum
SE1 3XF
2020-01-02
Norman Hartnell – A Tribute
This comprehensive exhibition will explore five decades of the distinguished career of a British design legend. (Ending Soon Sat, 25th Jan)

Fashion and Textile Museum
SE1 3XF
2020-01-02
Zandra Rhodes: 50 Years of Fabulous
Spanning 70 years of Riley’s work, this exhibition offers visitors an unparalleled opportunity to experience powerful and engaging works by one of the most important artists of our time. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Jan)

Hayward Gallery
SE1 8XX
2020-01-02
 Bridget Riley
The first-ever exhibition devoted to the portraits of Paul Gauguin. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Jan)

The National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2020-01-02
Gauguin Portraits
Charting the history of cultural and artistic interactions between East and West, this exhibition explores the impact the Islamic world has had on Western art for centuries. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Jan)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2020-01-02
Inspired by the east how the Islamic world influenced western art
Uncover the secrets of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece 'The Virgin of the Rocks' in this new immersive exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Jan)

National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2020-01-02
Leonardo - Experience a Masterpiece
See more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turns his unflinching eye firmly on himself. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Jan)

Royal Academy of Arts
W1J 0BD
2020-01-02
Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits
The first exhibition in the UK to fully explore the relationship between the English Arts and Crafts movement and the Bauhaus, the ground-breaking German art school. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Jan)

William Morris Gallery
E17 4PP
2020-01-02
Pioneers - William Morris and the Bauhaus
This major exhibition is the first-ever to focus on the untold story of the women of Pre-Raphaelite art. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Jan)

National Portrait Gallery
WC2H 0HE
2020-01-02
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Artists Anna Alcock, Hannah Ford, Miyuki Kasahara, Alke Schmidt and Sandie Sutton respond to this crisis with new work that draws on research into the causes of the decline of pollinators. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Jan)

Vestry House Museum
E17 9NH
2020-01-02
Swarm: artists respond to the pollinator crisis
On the centenary of the Bauhaus school, one of the most famous and influential design schools in modern history, this exhibition looks afresh at the birth of Modernism in Britain.  (Ending Soon Sat, 1st Feb)

Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
W1B 1AD
2020-01-02
Beyond Bauhaus - Modernism in Britain 1933 to 1966
A major exhibition exploring the artist’s mastery of light through 35 of his greatest paintings, etchings and drawings. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Feb)

Dulwich Picture Gallery
SE21 7AD
2020-01-02
Rembrandt's Light
Experience Blake’s visionary art in his largest show in a generation​. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Feb)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2020-01-02
William Blake
Industrial design studio PriestmanGoode explores the issue of waste in travel. (Ending Soon Sun, 9th Feb)

The Design Museum
W8 6AG
2020-01-02
Get Onboard: Reduce. Reuse. Rethink
These photographs, often taken by monks and housed within monasteries, depict day-to-day life for both the monastic and lay communities. (Ending Soon Sun, 9th Feb)

The British Library
NW1 2DB
2020-01-02
Sacred Laos in Photographs: The Monks’ Gaze
In a cold room, specially created for the exhibition, slices taken from Antarctic ice cores appear to float on a solid ice floor. (Ending Soon Fri, 14th Feb)

Arup Phase 2 gallery
W1T 4BQ
2020-01-02
Wayne Binitie: Ice Floor
Explore the underbelly of our digital world in this exhibition revealing the powerful, and often hidden, forces at play in artificial intelligence. (Ending Soon Sat, 15th Feb)

Barbican Centre
EC2Y 8DS
2020-01-02
Trevor Paglen - From 'Apple' to 'Anomaly'
The little known story of one of the capital’s most intriguing cemeteries is revealed for the first time in this exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Feb)

Brent Museum
NW10 2SF
2020-01-02
House of Life Exhibition
£14  
An exhibition exploring the non-stop nature of modern lives.  (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Feb)

Somerset House
WC2R 1LA
2020-01-02
24/7
This small display considers the historical creation of single-use and repurposed objects and presents an artistic response to plastic waste washing up in Pacific islands.  (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Feb)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2020-01-02
Disposable? Rubbish and us
Discover how architects, artists and designers are responding today to some of the most urgent ecological issues of our times. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Feb)

Royal Academy of Arts
W1J 0BD
2020-01-02
Eco-Visionaries - Confronting a planet in a state of emergency
See how fairies and elves have been imagined from the early Victorian period to the 1970s. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Feb)

Heath Robinson Museum
HA5 1AE
2020-01-02
Fairies in Illustration
The exhibition features immersive environments, about 200 objects about a future live on Mars. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Feb)

The Design Museum
W8 6AG
2020-01-02
Moving to Mars
This exhibition showcases often unseen and recently acquired items to tell the history of the Child family of bankers and their rise to fame and fortune. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Feb)

Osterley Park and House
TW7 4RB
2020-01-02
Treasures of Osterley: Rise of Banking Family
£14  
Explore the origins, philosophy and contemporary relevance of Buddhism, from its beginnings in India in the 6th century BC to having 1 billion followers worldwide today (Ending Soon Tue, 25th Feb)

The British Library
NW1 2DB
2020-01-02
Buddhism
A family-friendly exhibition bringing together young rebels from children’s literature (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Mar)

The British Library
NW1 2DB
2020-01-02
 Marvellous and Mischievous: Literature's Young Rebels
The infographics created by sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois in 1900 were a remarkable development in data visualisation and a direct challenge to institutional racism. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Mar)

House of Illustration
N1C 4BH
2020-01-02
W.E.B. Du Bois: Charting Black Lives
From Botticelli to Michelangelo, the exhibition reveals how Bomberg’s rebellious, youthful works drew inspiration from the paintings he most admired in the Gallery. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Mar)

The National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2020-01-02
Young Bomberg and the Old Masters
From Helen of Troy’s abduction to the deception of the Trojan Horse and the fall of the city, tread the line between myth and reality in this exhibition. (Ending Soon Thu, 5th Mar)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2020-01-02
Troy myth and reality
This free exhibition connects the specimens in the Grant Museum to a wider history of science and Empire, by asking one simple question: “How did all these things come to be here in the first place?”  (Ending Soon Sat, 7th Mar)

Grant Museum of Zoology
WC1E 6DE
2020-01-02
Displays of Power: A Natural History of Empire
Free  
Why do we play? How important is it for all of us, young or old? What does it mean to play well? (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Mar)

Wellcome Collection
NW1 2BE
2020-01-02
Play Well
An exhibition telling the story of the Old Lady through items selected from the vast collections amassed since the Bank was founded in 1694. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Bank of England Museum
EC2R 8AH
2020-01-02
An exhibition about the man, the Christmas he created, and how he fell out of love with the season he helped to create. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Charles Dickens Museum
WC1N 2LX
2020-01-02
Beautiful Books: Dickens and the Business of Christmas
As we approach another major turning point in automotive design, this exhibition looks at the role of the car in shaping the world we live in today.  (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2020-01-02
Cars: Accelerating The Modern World
This exhibition visits each stage of the production process; from design to construction, sourcing and alterations, to dressing, repairs and laundering. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

The National Theatre
SE1 9PX
2020-01-02
Costume at the National Theatre
Intrinsically bound to German identity and the upheaval that followed the First World War, Notgeld is a fascinating microcosm of public feeling in post-war Germany. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2020-01-02
Currency in crisis - German emergency money 1914-1924
This exhibition shines a spotlight on the subject we’d all rather avoid, from ancient societies to modern day medicine. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

The Octagon Gallery
WC1E 6BT
2020-01-02
This is the first UK exhibition of works by Indian master painters commissioned by East India Company officials in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Wallace Collection
W1U 3BN
2020-01-02
Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company
This exhibition presents George IV's life through the art that enriched his world. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

The Queen's Gallery
SW1A 1AA
2020-01-02
George IV: Art & Spectacle
A small heritage gallery in the basement of the Guildhall currently has three documents on display. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
EC2V 5AE
2020-01-02
Hidden London - The Exhibition takes people on an immersive journey of some of London’s most secret spaces belonging to the oldest subterranean railway in the world (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

London Transport Museum
WC2E 7BB
2020-01-02
Hidden London - The Exhibition
The Tate Modern hall is filled with a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Tate Modern
SE1 9TG
2020-01-02
Kara Walker
This display brings together a wide range of palaeoart, from nearly 200 years ago to the present day. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD
2020-01-02
A display celebrating The Clash’s iconic London Calling – an album that rocked the music scene, serving as an anthem for London, Londoners and music lovers globally. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Museum of London
EC2Y 5HN
2020-01-02
The Clash: London Calling
Explore one of the most audacious crimes of the 20th Century and the subsequent investigation, alongside other stories of crime through the post.  (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

The Postal Museum
WC1X 0DA
2020-01-02
The Great Train Robbery: Crime & The Post
A display exploring the unique and largely untold history, heritage and culture of the Krio people of Sierra Leone. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Museum of London Docklands
E14 4AL
2020-01-02
The Krios of Sierra Leone
Peeling back the surface of existence to reveal what lies under the skin. An exhibition exploring the unsettling beauty of the human body from the medieval age to the contemporary world. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Royal College of Physicians Museum
NW1 4LE
2020-01-02
Under the skin: anatomy, art and identity
Explore the contrasting worlds of Japan’s urban future and rural traditions in WOW’s new digital art installation. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Japan House
W8 5SA
2020-01-02
WOW: City Lights and Woodland Shade
Japan House presents two installations by WOW looking at both the urban future and timelessness of rural Japan. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Japan House London
W8 5SA
2020-01-02
WOW: City Lights and Woodland Shade Digital art encounters with Japan
The fifty-fifth Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition will immerse you in the breathtaking diversity of the natural world. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD
2020-01-02
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
This exhibition commemorates 100 years of nursing registration in the UK by delving into the heated arguments that characterised the registration debate. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Royal College of Nursing Library & Heritage Centre
W1G 0RN
2020-01-02
“Wake Up Slackers!” The Great Registration Controversy
This immersive experience charts their music, lyrics, creative process and influence as one of the most iconic pop bands of the modern age. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

O2 Arena / Millennium Dome
SE10 0DX
2020-01-02
ABBA: Super Troupers The Exhibition