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 exhibition explores master goldsmith, Carl Fabergé – who symbolised Russian craftsmanship, luxury and elegance – and the Anglo-Russian relationship which saw the opening of a London branch in 1903. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th May)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2022-05-08
Fabergé: Romance to Revolution
Featuring highlights from the museum's manuscripts collection, this exhibition explores the types of books illuminations came from and the 19th-century context in which they were cut up and collected. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th May)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2022-05-08
Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings
Discover more about the rise of Greek Revival architecture through contemporary watercolours and contextual images. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th May)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2022-05-08
Greek Revival - simplicity and  splendour
This exhibition will trace more than 200 years of extraordinary experiences and intense activity on a river that has always been essential to the city’s survival. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th May)

Museum of London Docklands
E14 4AL
2022-05-08
London: Port City
The myth of Van Gogh today is linked as much to his extraordinary life as it is to his stunning paintings. This exhibition will allow both aspects to be explored. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th May)

Courtauld Institute of Art
WC2R 0RN
2022-05-08
Van Gogh. Self-Portraits
A first time display in London oversized prints of some of Bischof's most revered icons. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th May)

Leica Gallery
W1K 6JD
2022-05-08
Werner Bischof - A life in photographs
A once-in-a-century opportunity to see this iconic painting in the UK. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th May)

National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2022-05-08
Gainsborough's Blue Boy
The exhibition shows artwork from the children’s stories that Heath Robinson both wrote and illustrated. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th May)

Heath Robinson Museum
HA5 1AE
2022-05-08
Heath Robinson’s Children's Stories
The first major retrospective of this legendary artist to focus exclusively on her work using fabrics and textiles. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th May)

Hayward Gallery
SE1 8XX
2022-05-08
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child
The 29 works on display will highlight Raphael’s development as a draughtsman and show how his talented pupils continued to draw with a similar inventive and free-flowing spirit.  (Ending Soon Sun, 15th May)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2022-05-08
Raphael and his school drawing connections
Joanna Hiffernan’s relationship with Whistler ran deeper than artist and muse. In this exhibition explore her life and role as a friend, model, lover and collaborator. (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd May)

Royal Academy of Arts
W1J 0BD
2022-05-08
Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan
Sweet Harmony looks at a significant five-year period in UK dance music history and the previously undocumented contribution that young people living and working in the London Borough of Waltham Forest made to it. (Ending Soon Wed, 25th May)

Vestry House Museum
E17 9NH
2022-05-08
Sweet Harmony: Radio, Rave & Waltham Forest, 1989-1994
An exhibition by Yoon Hyup, known for his vibrant use of lines and dots to create minimalistic and abstract city scape paintings. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th May)

Stolenspace Gallery
E1 6TD
2022-05-08
Light and Shadow
Radio Ballads presents new film commissions alongside paintings, drawings and contextual materials that share the stories learned in social care work. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th May)

Serpentine North Gallery
W2 2AR
2022-05-08
Radio Ballads
Touching on histories of medicine, trade and industrialisation through digitally rendered objects, Seaward weaves narrative through commonplace objects and organic forms. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th May)

Zabludowicz Collection
NW5 3PT
2022-05-08
Victor Seaward
An outdoor exhibition of 138 award-winning images selected from 20,000 submissions by photographers in 151 countries. (Ending Soon Tue, 31st May)

Granary Square
N1C 4AA
2022-05-08
Travel Photographer of the Year Exhibition
Step back through millennia and discover how this ancient civilization questioned, contemplated, and debated the natural world. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jun)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2022-05-08
Ancient Greeks: Science and Wisdom
Through artist impressions and technical diagrams from her fieldwork, geologist and landscape artist Emma Theresa Jude reports on her recent ascent of the ‘Inaccessible Pinnacle’ at the peak of Sgùrr Dearg on the Scottish Isle of Skye. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jun)

Orleans House Gallery
TW1 3DJ
2022-05-08
Emma Theresa Jude: The Map Is Not The Territory
This exhibition explores Sigmund Freud's fascination and relationship with China. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jun)

Freud Museum
NW3 5SX
2022-05-08
Freud and China
This exhibition is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the finest works amongst the drawings collected by Sir John Soane. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jun)

Sir John Soane's Museum
WC2A 3BP
2022-05-08
Hidden Masterpieces
This display will present an important group of twenty-two works by Parmigianino from The Courtauld’s collection. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jun)

Courtauld Institute of Art
WC2R 0RN
2022-05-08
The Art of Experiment: Parmigianino
Gaze through the lens of some of the world's best wildlife photographers and marvel at the beauty of our planet.  (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jun)

Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD
2022-05-08
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
This exhibition, 'If you prick us, do we not bleed?' introduces cabinets of curiosity into the heart of the Sainsbury Wing, containing assembled fragments that might look like relics from another collection.  (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Jun)

National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2022-05-08
Ali Cherri: If you prick us, do we not bleed?
Royal Photographic Society (RPS) award-winning photographer, Dexter McLean, MA, focuses on representation of both the black and disabled communities that he embodies in Tower Avenue, his first solo show. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Jun)

Orleans House Gallery
TW1 3DJ
2022-05-08
Tower Avenue
New exhibits will include items from IWM’s rich collection that will go on display for the very first time and highlight eyewitness accounts of the conflict. (Ending Soon Tue, 14th Jun)

Imperial War Museum
SE1 6HZ
2022-05-08
Falklands Conflict
A slideshow of selected artworks from Hong Kong artist Chihoi’s graphic novel, based on a story written by Taiwanese poet Hung Hung, evokes a dreamlike train journey. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Jun)

Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX
2022-05-08
Chihoi: The Train
This exhibition puts the substance before the style and unlocks the untold stories of hair. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Jun)

Horniman Museum
SE23 3PQ
2022-05-08
Hair: Untold Stories
Kawanabe Kyōsai was one of the most exciting Japanese painters of the 19th century. Discover his work – some of which has never been seen before – in the first exhibition outside of Japan in nearly 30 years.  (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Jun)

Royal Academy of Arts
W1J 0BD
2022-05-08
Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection
The Garden Museum’s exhibition explores the use of roses in fashion from the Victorian era to today. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Jun)

The Garden Museum
SE1 7LB
2022-05-08
Wild & Cultivated: Fashioning the Rose
A revelatory new take on art in Britain after the Second World War, a period when artists had to make sense of an entirely altered world. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Jun)

Barbican Centre
EC2Y 8DS
2022-05-08
Postwar Modern - New Art in Britain 1945-1965
Learn about Victorian Westminster in this exhibition showcasing selection of collections from City of Westminster Archives, toys on loan from Pollocks Toy Museum and Victorian costumes. (Ending Soon Thu, 30th Jun)

Westminster City Hall
SW1E 6QP
2022-05-08
 Pomp, Progress and Poverty: Life in Victorian Westminster
Tate Modern presents Himid’s largest solo exhibition to date, incorporating new paintings and significant highlights from across her remarkable career. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Jul)

Tate Modern
SE1 9TG
2022-05-08
Lubaina Himid
This exhibition explores William Hogarth’s relationship with animals through his work as an artist and in his personal life. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Jul)

Hogarth's House
W4 2QN
2022-05-08
William Hogarth’s Animals
Informed by recent archaeological and scientific discoveries, this exhibition offers new insight on one of the world’s great wonders, bringing the true story of Stonehenge into sharper focus than ever before. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Jul)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2022-05-08
The world of Stonehenge
A Celebration of BBC Television made at Riverside Studios (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Jul)

Riverside Studios
W6 9BN
2022-05-08
Time Lords to Top of the Pops
Visit the museum to see the temporary displays that will feature Royal themed products and packaging from the past 200 years. (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Jul)

Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
W11 1QT
2022-05-08
Jubilation: 200 Years of Royal Souvenirs
£24  
One of the first-ever exhibitions to explore Raphael's complete career. (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Jul)

National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2022-05-08
Raphael
Explore five centuries of UK news through broadsheets, blogs and objects from our own collection and examine era-defining stories close-up. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st Aug)

The British Library
NW1 2DB
2022-05-08
Breaking the News
An exhibition based around the disputed claims that the Dutch painter Philips Wouwerman was a plagiarist. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st Aug)

Dulwich Picture Gallery
SE21 7AD
2022-05-08
True Crime: The Case of Philips Wouwerman
Enter into the world of superheroes in this first major exhibition to explore the representation of foundlings, orphans, adoptees, and foster children in comics, graphic novels and sequential art from around the globe. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Aug)

Foundling Museum
WC1N 1AZ
2022-05-08
 Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 years in comics
Explore the 100-year history of the prestigious Royal Academy of Dance. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Aug)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2022-05-08
On Point: Royal Academy of Dance at 100
In this exhibition, learn more about printmaking in Rudolf's court in Prague during the highpoint of innovative and ambitious prints made from around 1580 until the early years of the 17th century. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Aug)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2022-05-08
Printmaking in Prague - art from the court of Rudolf II
The exhibition considers what we might learn from plant behaviour, and the impacts of colonial expeditions on the exploitation of natural resources and indigenous knowledges.  (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Aug)

Wellcome Collection
NW1 2BE
2022-05-08
Rooted Beings
Whether you are a fanatical supporter, part-time punter or sporting sceptic, visitors to this exhibition will enjoy discovering the remarkable design stories behind the world's beautiful game. (Ending Soon Mon, 29th Aug)

The Design Museum
W8 6AG
2022-05-08
Football: Designing the Beautiful Game
This exhibition of art, science, design, music and philosophy invites you to experience different global perspectives on our shared planet, and consider Earth as a community we all belong to.  (Ending Soon Mon, 29th Aug)

Barbican Centre
EC2Y 8DS
2022-05-08
Our Time on Earth
This landmark exhibition will rewrite the history of the revolutionary art movement. (Ending Soon Mon, 29th Aug)

Tate Modern
SE1 9TG
2022-05-08
Surrealism Beyond Borders
This exhibition highlights the sporting, economic and wellbeing opportunities generated by the Games, the journey of the Paralympics movement and the remarkable changes to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. (Ending Soon Wed, 31st Aug)

Lee Valley VeloPark
E20 3AB
2022-05-08
London 2012 exhibition
Pitzhanger’s new exhibition by Rana Begum RA explores the perception of light, colour and form within sculpture, painting and installation. (Ending Soon Wed, 31st Aug)

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
W5 5EQ
2022-05-08
Rana Begum - Dappled Light
The exhibition explores women international thinkers and their work at a fundamental moment in the imagining of international relations. (Ending Soon Fri, 2nd Sep)

LSE Library
WC2A 2HD
2022-05-08
Women's International Thought
Sculpture, painting, print, photography, film and installation art come together, to reveal places, cultures and times for which the ‘woman in the window’ had a particular meaning, with responses ranging from empathy to voyeurism.  (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Sep)

Dulwich Picture Gallery
SE21 7AD
2022-05-08
Reframed: The Woman in the Window
The exhibition showcases a series of works by Anna Marongiu, a Sardinian artist who created 262 illustrations of The Pickwick Papers between 1928–1929. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Sep)

Charles Dickens Museum
WC1N 2LX
2022-05-08
Picturing Pickwick: The Art of The Pickwick Papers
Life in a cup presents a fascinating beverage story and explores the traditions that make coffee a way of life in parts of the Islamic world. (Ending Soon Sun, 18th Sep)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2022-05-08
Life in a cup - coffee culture in the Islamic world
An exhibition using creative technology to explore how images shape the way we remember history, contrasting Holocaust photos taken by perpetrators with the perspectives of victims. (Ending Soon Sun, 18th Sep)

Jewish Museum London
NW1 7NB
2022-05-08
The Eye As Witness: Recording the Holocaust
The first major retrospective of Sickert at Tate in over 60 years, this exhibition explores how he had an often radical, distinctive approach to setting and subject matter. (Ending Soon Sun, 18th Sep)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2022-05-08
Walter Sickert
A dynamic history, a precarious present: navigate Venice's iconic waterways at the National Maritime Museum (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Sep)

National Maritime Museum
SE10 9NF
2022-05-08
Canaletto's Venice Revisited
This exhibition displays American 20th-century hand-drawn animation alongside French 18th-century art to reveal the surprising and enchanting connections between these two artistic movements. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Oct)

Wallace Collection
W1U 3BN
2022-05-08
Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts
Life Through a Royal Lens explores the Royal Family through photography and brings together some of the most iconic images ever taken of the Royal Family to Kensington Palace (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Oct)

Kensington Palace
W8 4PX
2022-05-08
Life Through a Royal Lens
The show traces how menswear has been fashioned and refashioned over the centuries, and how designers, tailors and artists – and their clients and sitters – have constructed and performed masculinity, and unpicked it at the seams. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Nov)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2022-05-08
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear
A display of photographs capturing factories and their workers in an era of rapid transition. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Nov)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2022-05-08
Maurice Broomfield: Industrial Sublime
£8  
This exhibition examines ways in which visual artists have taken inspiration from the literary arts – poetry, plays, novels, and also music. (Ending Soon Fri, 23rd Dec)

Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
EC2V 5AE
2022-05-08
Inspired!
Discover the ground-breaking technology that changed the post forever in a new exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Jan)

The Postal Museum
WC1X 0DA
2022-05-08
Sorting Britain: The Power of Postcodes
Celebrating the life and work of one of the best loved children's authors of the 20th century. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Jan)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2022-05-08
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature
The exhibition includes rare pieces of porcelain and lacquer, samurai armour, embroidered screens and diplomatic gifts from the reigns of James I to Her Majesty The Queen. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Feb)

The Queen's Gallery
SW1A 1AA
2022-05-08
Japan: Courts and Culture
An installation of six large-scale clay columns inspired by traditional architectural practices in Chile, by Swedish-Chilean artist Anton Alvarez (Ending Soon Tue, 28th Feb)

100 Bishopsgate
EC2M 1GT
2022-05-08
The Remnants by Anton Alvarez
Visit an 'abandoned' Tube station underworld and discover what secrets lurk beneath our busy streets in this Hidden London exhibition. (Ending Soon Mon, 31st Jul)

London Transport Museum
WC2E 7BB
2022-05-08
Hidden London: The Exhibition