Welcome to the IanVisits alternative guide to London.
Lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random geeky miscellany.
This is quite an old listings page, did you want: Thursday, 5th September 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
As with many of their large sales, there's a public exhibition of the items up for sale, and it's freely open to the public to visit. (Ending Soon Wed, 7th Sep)
Sotheby’s
Free
Charon
Charon is a gigantic 32ft high rotating zoetrope with posed human skeletons mounted on its inner edge, fully powered by you. (Ending Soon Sat, 10th Sep)
Limmo Peninsula
Free
The Future of Ageing
Discover how design can support an ageing population – and indeed our own future selves – to meet their needs, interests and aspirations with greater agency and joy. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Sep)
The Design Museum
The Hiroshima panels have been brought to this country by Artists for Peace. (Ending Soon Fri, 16th Sep)
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
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
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
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
£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
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
Showcasing a selection from The Courtauld’s collection of works on paper, this display will explore the world of 16th century Flemish print production. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Sep)
Courtauld Institute of Art
Straddling art, history, and fiction, the Museum of Sex Objects presents its collection of storytelling objects, curious artefacts and fragments of sexual pasts (Ending Soon Thu, 29th Sep)
Horse Hospital
This exhibition outlines the milestones in the research and treatment of diabetes before the discovery of insulin. (Ending Soon Fri, 30th Sep)
Royal Society Of Medicine London
This exhibition draws on the Library’s rich holdings of prints, maps and plans to give an insight into how Lambeth has changed from the 17th to the 19th century. (Ending Soon Fri, 30th Sep)
Lambeth Palace Library
£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
£16
Lubaina Himid
A theatrical exhibition by the Turner Prize winning artist and cultural activist (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Oct)
Tate Modern
The State Rooms at Buckingham Palace feature a display looking at The Queen's Accession to the throne in February 1952. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Oct)
Buckingham Palace
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
For the first time, Picasso’s ‘Woman with a Book’ (1932) from the Norton Simon Museum, California, will be brought together with the painting that inspired it, ‘Madame Moitessier’ by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. (Ending Soon Sun, 9th Oct)
National Gallery
£16
Cornelia Parker
Experience Cornelia Parker’s mesmerising large-scale installations (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Oct)
Tate Britain
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
A display of eight ancient glass vessels that were shattered in the Beirut explosion and since restored. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Oct)
British Museum
Encounter a little known and rarely seen side of Britain’s greatest artist. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Oct)
Turner's House
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
This exhibition explores the relationship between football and religion and how the two are often connected, with players praying on the pitch and fans observing religious rituals in tandem. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Dec)
The Aga Khan Centre
A display honouring the music, people and places central to the grime scene and its roots in East London. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Dec)
Museum of London
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
New research into IWM’s photography archive demonstrates just how keenly The Queen’s role as monarch has been shaped by her wartime experiences. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Jan)
Imperial War Museum
This exhibition uses the unique collections of Tower Hamlets Archives as a lens through which to explore the borough’s history of producing food. (Ending Soon Sat, 4th Feb)
Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives
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
Thamesmead Codex celebrates the voices and local community of Thamesmead, London (Ending Soon Sun, 7th May)
Tate Modern
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
