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.

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
2020-03-06
Displays of Power: A Natural History of Empire
Exhibition of linocuts mostly of London Underground stations by Gail Brodholt (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Mar)

Eames Fine Art Gallery
SE1 3UD
2020-03-06
Gail Brodholt: Poetry, Prose & Print
£13.75  
The orchid festival is back, celebrating the magnificent biodiversity of Indonesia, the land of 17,000 islands.  (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Mar)

Kew Gardens
TW9 3AE
2020-03-06
Orchids
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
2020-03-06
Play Well
Free  
An exhibition of photographic representations that emerge from the threshold of dyke intimacy and public life in the 1980s and 90s. (Ending Soon Sat, 14th Mar)

Auto Italia
E2 9JS
2020-03-06
Hot Moment
Presenting 8 new works, the artist continues his exploration of the sphere as a formal device for reframing everyday objects (Ending Soon Sat, 14th Mar)

Marlborough Gallery
W1S 4BY
2020-03-06
Lars Fisk - Wattle & Daub
Daniel’s work examines contemporary culture through a Classical lens, using humour to highlight the absurdities and anomalies of our digital age. (Ending Soon Sat, 14th Mar)

Atom Gallery
N16 9DA
2020-03-06
Waiting For Yesterday - Daniel Hosego
Robin’s works are views on life, in which toys and object we take for granted appear as characters and props in scenes that are simultaneously natural and ludicrous – like life itself perhaps. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Mar)

Orleans House Gallery
TW1 3DJ
2020-03-06
Views from a Playroom by Robin MacFarlan
Drawing inspiration from photographs, artist Niki Gibbs worked with Holloway Fire Station on Hornsey Road, Islington, to capture its four crews going about their routine daily work. (Ending Soon Tue, 17th Mar)

Islington Museum
EC1V 4NB
2020-03-06
‘Mobilise! Mobilise!
Exploring the fascinating world of mushrooms, in an exhibition from curator and writer, Francesca Gavin. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Somerset House
WC2R 1LA
2020-03-06
 Mushrooms: The art, design and future of fungi
Tate Modern presents the first major exhibition of Steve McQueen’s artwork in the UK for 20 years (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Tate Modern
SE1 9TG
2020-03-06
 Steve McQueen
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
2020-03-06
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
2020-03-06
Beautiful Books: Dickens and the Business of Christmas
This is the first time that Tate has staged a show devoted to the later 17th century and the first to explore baroque art in Britain.  (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2020-03-06
British Baroque - Power and Illusion
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
2020-03-06
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
2020-03-06
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
2020-03-06
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
2020-03-06
An immersive installation by contemporary American artist Darren Waterston, presenting a detailed reimagining of James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s famed Peacock Room. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2020-03-06
Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room re-imagined
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
2020-03-06
Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company
The first ever retrospective of the Polish-Jewish émigré who brought European modernist aesthetics to British graphic design. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

House of Illustration
N1C 4BH
2020-03-06
George Him: A Polish Designer for Mid-Century Britain
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
2020-03-06
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
2020-03-06
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
2020-03-06
Hidden London - The Exhibition
The rich history of the Islington stretch of the Regents canal is revealed in this exhibition, including some of its industrial past and the memories of people who worked and lived by it. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Canal Museum
N1 9RT
2020-03-06
Industrial Islington
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
2020-03-06
Kara Walker
Pictures of Gay Pride marches in the 1970s, controversial actor and singer Divine and London’s first gay superclub, Bang, are among rarely seen photographs that have just gone on show. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

City of Westminster Town Hall
SW1E 6QP
2020-03-06
This exhibition tells the story of the print industry across the 20th century, focussing on the east London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Nunnery Gallery
E3 2SJ
2020-03-06
Lightboxes + Lettering
A selection from a gift of nine ‘manner posters’ displayed across Tokyo’s Seibu Railway network between 2016 and 2019. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2020-03-06
Manners and Modernity: Ukiyo-e and etiquette on the Seibu Railway
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
2020-03-06
Alongside a select number of key paintings and sculptures, an exhibition reveals how paper allowed Picasso to push the boundaries of thought and practice.  (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Royal Academy of Arts
W1J 0BD
2020-03-06
Picasso and Paper
An exhibition exploring representations of the pregnant female body through portraits, over 500 years. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Foundling Museum
WC1N 1AZ
2020-03-06
Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media
The complexity and delightful aesthetic fills space with cut out coloured paper to create a world where the essence of every carefully considered colour can be appreciated. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Now Gallery
SE10 0SQ
2020-03-06
Slices of Time
This exhibition marks 50 years since the beginnings of two significant social movements in the UK: the first women’s liberation conference in Oxford and the first UK meeting of the Gay Liberation Front at LSE. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

LSE Library
WC2A 2HD
2020-03-06
Social Revolution: women's liberation and gay liberation in the 1970s and 80s
Glowing arches fill Granary Square at Kings Cross during the winter months. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Granary Square
N1C 4AA
2020-03-06
Space Frames
Discover the creative process behind designing for performance, from costume to set design (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2020-03-06
Staging Places: UK Design for Performance
Tangerine Dream, the German band widely credited as laying the foundations for the Ambient and Trance music styles, will be celebrated by this exhibition. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Barbican Arts Centre
EC2Y 8DS
2020-03-06
Tangerine Dream: Zeitraffer
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
2020-03-06
The Clash: London Calling
This exhibition highlights a diversity of artistic observations on the lived experiences of women from childhood to old age, including but by no means restricted to experiences of mental distress. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Bethlem Museum of the Mind
BR3 3BX
2020-03-06
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
2020-03-06
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
2020-03-06
The Krios of Sierra Leone
The New Stone Age exhibition will celebrate the sustainability, practicality and inherent beauty of stone. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

The Building Centre
WC1E 7BT
2020-03-06
The New Stone Age
This exhibition, in the Weston Room at the Maughan Library, marks the 75th anniversary of VE day and the liberation of the Nazi death and concentration camps. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Maughan Library
WC2A 1LR
2020-03-06
The long hard road: 75th anniversary of the liberation of occupied Europe.
This exhibition reveals the architectural setting of swimming and bathing from Roman springs and Victorian bathhouses to contemporary swimming spaces. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2020-03-06
The origin and revival of pools, swimming baths and lidos
This exhibition looks at the 100-year anniversary of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Urology Section. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

The Royal Society of Medicine
W1G 0AE
2020-03-06
The rise of the specialty
Explore the tattoos worn by members of the Armed Forces community and the powerful stories of identity, comradeship, bravery and sacrifice they represent. (Ending Soon Wed, 18th Mar)

National Army Museum
SW3 4HT
2020-03-06
Tribute Ink
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
2020-03-06
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
2020-03-06
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
2020-03-06
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
2020-03-06
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
2020-03-06
“Wake Up Slackers!” The Great Registration Controversy
This exhibition brings together artworks that explore our relationships with trees and forests.  (Ending Soon Sun, 17th May)

Hayward Gallery
SE1 8XX
2020-03-06
Among the Trees
An ambitious and wide-spanning survey of the origins of surrealist art in Britain, and the first to trace its roots back to 1620 through supporting archive material. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th May)

Dulwich Picture Gallery
SE21 7AD
2020-03-06
British Surrealism
An exhibition of superb images reproduced from the British Library’s collection of Japanese pattern books. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th May)

The British Library
NW1 2DB
2020-03-06
Exquisite Patterns: Japanese Textile Design
Through the medium of film and photography, this major exhibition considers how masculinity has been coded, performed, and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th May)

Barbican Centre
EC2Y 8DS
2020-03-06
Masculinities - Liberation through Photography
To coincide with JMW Turner featuring on the new £20 note, find out about the variety of stock purchases made by Turner in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. (Ending Soon Fri, 22nd May)

Bank of England Museum
EC2R 8AH
2020-03-06
Painting a fortune: JMW Turner and the Bank of England
On display will be fossil skeletons as well as full-size models and animatronics that bring the Permian back to life. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

Horniman Museum
SE23 3PQ
2020-03-06
 Permian Monsters: Life Before the Dinosaurs
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
2020-03-06
ABBA: Super Troupers The Exhibition
The largest exhibition of his drawings for 50 years. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2020-03-06
Aubrey Beardsley
From ‘honey dew’ drinking parties to Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, discover Beatrix Potter’s response to the world of fairies and fairytales.  (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2020-03-06
Beatrix Potter's Fairyland
Free  
See a collection of pilgrim badges that illustrate the extraordinary life of Thomas Becket. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

Museum of London
EC2Y 5HN
2020-03-06
Becket2020
This exhibition confirms Charles Keeping’s stature and contribution not just as a major picture-book artist but also as a revelatory illustrator of Dickens for the Folio Society. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

Heath Robinson Museum
HA5 1AE
2020-03-06
Charles Keeping: Londoner & Illustrator
The exhibition explores Victorian London from the 1830s until the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on Dickens’s child characters. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

Senate House Library
WC1E 7HU
2020-03-06
Childhood in Dickensian London
The first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings in over twenty years. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

National Portrait Gallery
WC2H 0HE
2020-03-06
David Hockney: Drawing from Life
For the first time in over 40 years, the British Museum is showing a major display of its collection of French prints, one of the best collections of its kind in the world. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2020-03-06
French Impressions: Prints from Manet to Cézanne
This exhibition explores the ways in which, from the eighteenth century to the present day, our perception of the hero or heroine has evolved. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

The Fan Museum
SE10 8ER
2020-03-06
Heroic Figures
Featuring over 35 paintings and drawings from collections across the world, the exhibition spans Maes’s whole career, spent in Dordrecht and Amsterdam.  (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

The National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2020-03-06
Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age
£14  
This is the first monographic exhibition of Spilliaert’s work in the UK and will showcase some 90 works on paper. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

Royal Academy of Arts
W1J 0BD
2020-03-06
Spilliaert
The UK’s first public exhibition dedicated solely to gay cultural icon Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen) on the centenary of his birth. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

House of Illustration
N1C 4BH
2020-03-06
Tom of Finland: Love and Liberation
See original drafts of Wordsworth’s verse, his notebooks, correspondence and more. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)

The British Library
NW1 2DB
2020-03-06
William Wordsworth