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 celebrates The Prince’s Foundation’s history, principles, aims, projects and education programmes, with a particular focus on the work being done by the charity to champion and preserve heritage craft skills. (Ending Soon Fri, 27th May)
The Garrison Chapel
Areas around Chelsea are transformed into London’s largest free flower festival with this year’s theme, 'British Icons'. (Ending Soon Sat, 28th May)
various locations
An exhibition of the most beautiful private press books ever published, illustrating Walker’s revolutionary book printing techniques and legacy in his former home in Hammersmith. (Ending Soon Sat, 28th May)
Emery Walker's House
Free
Everlyn Nicodemus
A major solo exhibition of African diaspora artist Everlyn Nicodemus. (Ending Soon Sat, 28th May)
Richard Saltoun Gallery
An exhibition of paintings, watercolours and sculptures by the multi-talented Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves). (Ending Soon Sat, 28th May)
Free
Light and Shadow
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
Free
Radio Ballads
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
Free
Victor Seaward
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
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
Step back through millennia and discover how this ancient civilization questioned, contemplated, and debated the natural world. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Jun)
Science Museum
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
Free
Hidden Masterpieces
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
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
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
Free
Momentum of Light
A photography exhibition in the former Habitat store on Tottenham Court Road. (Ending Soon Sat, 11th Jun)
Heal's Building
Explore incredible objects, including some never seen by the public before, from Professor Stephen Hawking’s office in this new, free display. (Ending Soon Sat, 11th Jun)
Science Museum
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
Free
Tower Avenue
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
Free
Falklands Conflict
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
Free
Falklands at 40
Discover the story of the Islanders whose lives were altered by the Falklands War. (Ending Soon Fri, 17th Jun)
National Army Museum
Free
Chihoi: The Train
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
Free
Hair: Untold Stories
This exhibition puts the substance before the style and unlocks the untold stories of hair. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Jun)
Horniman Museum
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
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
An exhibition that explores underground print during the Indian emergency of 1975- 77, focusing on the cyclostyle printing and duplicating technology used to produce it (Ending Soon Sat, 25th Jun)
Brunei Gallery, SOAS
Explore craft practices from across the world that work in harmony with nature (Ending Soon Sat, 25th Jun)
Crafts Council Gallery
Free
In a Pot of Hot Soup
An exhibition of contemporary Nigerian art, digital and non-digital, centred on artists’ explorations of the roles of political voice within Nigeria. (Ending Soon Sat, 25th Jun)
Brunei Gallery, SOAS
A display of royal memorabilia commemorating coronations and jubilees, from cups and plates to hairpins and bunting. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Jun)
Sir John Soane's Museum
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
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
£16
Lubaina Himid
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
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
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
A Celebration of BBC Television made at Riverside Studios (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Jul)
Riverside Studios
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
£24
Raphael
One of the first-ever exhibitions to explore Raphael's complete career. (Ending Soon Sun, 31st Jul)
National Gallery
This exhibition explores medical themes in literature, looking at those who've left the world of medicine behind to become some of our best-loved wordsmiths. (Ending Soon Fri, 12th Aug)
Royal Society Of Medicine London
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
An exhibition based around the disputed claims that the Dutch painter Philips Wouwerman was a plagiarist. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st Aug)
Dulwich Picture Gallery
A display of infographics illustrating 19th-century news themes (Ending Soon Sun, 21st Aug)
The British Library
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
Explore the 100-year history of the prestigious Royal Academy of Dance. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Aug)
Victoria and Albert Museum
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
Free
Rooted Beings
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
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
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
This landmark exhibition will rewrite the history of the revolutionary art movement. (Ending Soon Mon, 29th Aug)
Tate Modern
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
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
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
A retrospective exploring the often-surprising history of one of the UK’s oldest and most revered applied arts organisations. (Ending Soon Sat, 3rd Sep)
Fashion and Textile Museum
Celebrate the work of designer Bethany Williams with this new exhibition embracing the discussion of social and environmental issues. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Sep)
The Design Museum
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
Step onto the island of Inujima in this exhibition which explores how an extraordinary living art project has transformed the island’s landscape and lives of its inhabitants. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Sep)
Japan House
To mark the 150th anniversary of Heath Robinson's birth, an exhibition of a selection of his cartoons representing the wide range of his subjects and spanning his humorous output from 1905 to 1943. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Sep)
Heath Robinson Museum
This intriguing new display highlights over 50 works engraved on wood by the Brothers Dalziel firm, illustrating literary and commercial work published throughout the Victorian period. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Sep)
The British Museum
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
The exhibition charts in items of all kinds the rise of British Blues music from its US and African roots in the 20th Century through to artists performing today. (Ending Soon Sat, 17th Sep)
Barbican Arts Centre
Free
Cow in the woods
Find out more about Epping Forest’s grazing history, how the ‘cow saved the Forest’ in 1874 and grazing management today.
(Ending Soon Sun, 18th Sep)
Epping Forest Visitor Centre
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
£18
Walter Sickert
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
The vast array of floral designs on show span the centuries dating back to the late 16th Century. (Ending Soon Sat, 24th Sep)
Fan Museum
A dynamic history, a precarious present: navigate Venice's iconic waterways at the National Maritime Museum (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Sep)
National Maritime Museum
An exhibition that explores female spiritual beings in world belief and mythological traditions around the globe. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Sep)
The British Museum
£8
Gold
Take a journey around the globe to learn how gold elevated art in manuscripts and books. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Oct)
The British Library
Free
The Hop
Jyll Bradley’s new interactive commission links the urban landscape of the Southbank Centre to the hop gardens of Kent. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Oct)
Hayward Gallery
£16
Cornelia Parker
Experience Cornelia Parker’s mesmerising large-scale installations (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Oct)
Tate Britain
Free
In the Air
In the Air explores our relationship with the air around us. Moving freely across borders and through bodies, air is both vital to our existence and a threat to our health. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Oct)
Wellcome Collection
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
Free
Chimps Are Family
This outdoor exhibition featured 28 chimps dotted around the South Bank. (Ending Soon Fri, 21st Oct)
various locations
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
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
A display of photographs capturing factories and their workers in an era of rapid transition. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Nov)
Victoria and Albert Museum
With a wealth of material from the Cathedral's archives, the exhibition tells stories of 200 years of Jubilees alongside photographs, prints, paintings, and treasures, including vestments used for these magnificent occasions. (Ending Soon Thu, 1st Dec)
St Paul's Cathedral
This exhibition comprised a unique collection of medical satire prints from the mid-18th century to the 1980s. (Ending Soon Fri, 2nd Dec)
Royal College of Physicians Museum
An immersive exhibition exploring the latest cancer research taking place at the Crick - Europe’s largest biomedical research institute under one roof. (Ending Soon Sat, 3rd Dec)
The Francis Crick Institute
A display celebrating one of the city's most iconic sporting heroes, both on and off the pitch. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Dec)
Museum of London
£8
Inspired!
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
Free
Treasures
Spanning centuries, the unexpected treasures on display in the Art Deco library include hand-drawn illustrations, curious texts and beguiling bindings. (Ending Soon Fri, 23rd Dec)
Museum of Freemasonry
This world-first, object-rich exhibition reveals the past, present and future of how cancer is prevented, detected and treated. (Ending Soon Sat, 31st Dec)
Science Museum
An exhibition exploring the Elstree Extension through the Northern Heights that was suspended during World War 2, and never restarted. (Ending Soon Sat, 31st Dec)
Elstree and Borehamwood Museum
Discover the ground-breaking technology that changed the post forever in a new exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Jan)
The Postal Museum
This display brings together items reflecting the varied interests and achievements of the polymath Charles Jennens. (Ending Soon Tue, 3rd Jan)
Foundling Museum
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
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
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
The historical map collections at London Metropolitan Archives show the development of the city in incredible detail, from the late sixteenth century to the present day. (Ending Soon Wed, 29th Mar)
London Metropolitan Archives
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
Free
Slavery & the Bank
This exhibition explores the history of transatlantic slavery through its connections with the Bank of England and the wider City of London. (Ending Soon Fri, 26th Jan)
Bank of England Museum
This exhibition follows the lives of British soldiers in Germany over the past 75 years. (Ends on Wed, 21st Aug)
National Army Museum
