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: Friday, 18th October 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
Through High Jewellery creations, archive documents and lender masterpieces, this exhibition draws visitors into a world of creativity and craftsmanship dedicated to movement. (Ending Soon Thu, 20th Oct)
The Design Museum
Free
Chimps Are Family
This outdoor exhibition featured 28 chimps dotted around the South Bank. (Ending Soon Fri, 21st Oct)
various locations
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a flag from the Battle of Trafalgar on display at the National Maritime Museum. (Ending Soon Fri, 21st Oct)
National Maritime Museum
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
Free
The Royal Signals
Secure communication is vital to the Army. Throughout Cyber Awareness Month, the National Army Museum is showcasing the work of the Royal Signals through a series of dynamic photographs. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Oct)
National Army Museum
An evening walking trail through the gardens lit up with spooky effects for Halloween. (Ending Soon Mon, 31st Oct)
Chiswick House and Gardens
In this exhibition, you will be introduced to the people who lived at Hogarth’s House, their relatives, friends and neighbours. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Nov)
Hogarth'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
Seven decades of Royal visits to the Southbank Centre, events and celebrations, in this free display. (Ending Soon Wed, 9th Nov)
Royal Festival Hall
This masterpiece is considered a milestone in Chinese painting history. Usually on show for a few weeks each year to protect it. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Nov)
British 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
Free
CONEXIÓN
A length of St Mary Le Strand nave will be lined with panels made from tobacco leaves. (Ending Soon Fri, 9th Dec)
St Mary Le Strand
£24.50
William Kentridge
Enter a new, immersive world by the multi-sensory artist and global creative powerhouse William Kentridge. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Dec)
Royal Academy of Arts
This exhibition highlights the Library’s acquisitions during a challenging few years. (Ending Soon Thu, 22nd Dec)
Lambeth Palace Library
£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
£13
Helen Saunders
The Courtauld Gallery presents the first monographic exhibition devoted to British abstract artist Helen Saunders in over 25 years. (Ending Soon Sat, 31st Dec)
Courtauld Institute of Art
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
This display brings together items reflecting the varied interests and achievements of the polymath Charles Jennens. (Ending Soon Tue, 3rd Jan)
Foundling Museum
One of the most original and eccentric artists of the 18th century, Henry Fuseli, is the subject of a new exhibition at The Courtauld. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Jan)
Courtauld Institute of Art
The first major survey of Carolee Schneemann’s work in the UK, tracing her diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary expression over six decades. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Jan)
Barbican Centre
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
With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, the great American Realist painter confronted the leading issues facing the United States. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Jan)
National Gallery
A free exhibition dedicated to celebrated British photojournalist Bill Brandt (1904-83). (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Jan)
Tate Britain
An exhibition of TV and film costume designs sketches from the Ann and John Bloomfield collection. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Jan)
BFI Southbank
£10.50
Radical Empathy
A collaboration between award-winning writer, Yomi Ṣode, and artist and photographer, Akytom, this display questions where we place empathy.
(Ending Soon Sun, 15th Jan)
Foundling Museum
The oldest document held in the City of London Corporation’s extensive archives will go on rare public display. (Ending Soon Thu, 19th Jan)
Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
An exhibition marking the centenary of the Everest expeditions in the 1920s explores how Captain John Noel’s films shaped the popular image of the mountain (Ending Soon Fri, 20th Jan)
Royal Geographical Society
A display of photographs taken between 1857 and 1970, capturing the archaeological site of Hampi. (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd Jan)
British Library
This exhibition celebrates the completion of the British Museum's digitisation project and showcases the extraordinary variety of printmaking (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd Jan)
British Museum
This exhibition celebrates the essence of Japanese craftsmanship through the story of an enduring woodworking heritage cultivated in the densely forested Hida region of Gifu Prefecture. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Jan)
Japan House London
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
A major exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Feb)
The British Museum
Delve into the dreamlike relationship between Surrealism and design in this century-spanning celebration of surrealist objects of desire. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Feb)
The Design Museum
Explore newly uncovered stories of African and Asian children in the care of the eighteenth-century Foundling Hospital. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Feb)
Foundling Museum
From Lucian Freud to Kiki Smith, life drawing to minimalism and etching to collage, this exhibition spans an intriguing range of styles and techniques used in art on paper from 1960 to today. (Ending Soon Sat, 25th Feb)
British Museum
Rebel Rebel, the first major UK commission by Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari, celebrates and commemorates feminist icons from pre-revolutionary Iran. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Feb)
Barbican Centre
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
Explore Fassett’s world with some of his own original artworks as well as works inspired by him from international quilters and makers. (Ending Soon Sat, 11th Mar)
Fashion and Textile Museum
£22
Cezanne
Tate Modern presents a once-in-a-generation exhibition of paintings, watercolours and drawings by Paul Cezanne. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Mar)
Tate Modern
A display of over 1100 works by the Lithuanian artist and celebrated composer Mikalojus Konstantina, widely credited as Lithuania’s greatest artist. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Mar)
Dulwich Picture Gallery
£16.50
Anthony Daley: Son of Rubens
Abstract Expressionist painter Anthony Daley will present a new body of work, which explores his career-long fascination with the work of 17th century Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Mar)
Dulwich Picture Gallery
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
£16
Maria Bartuszová
Delicate, evocative plaster sculptures inspired by the natural world (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Apr)
Tate Modern
An exhibition of cartoons about Boris Johnson. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Apr)
Cartoon Museum
This exhibition explores The Poppy Factory’s fascinating history and displays artefacts which chart the story of this unique local charity. (Ending Soon Sat, 29th Apr)
Museum of Richmond
Thamesmead Codex celebrates the voices and local community of Thamesmead, London (Ending Soon Sun, 7th May)
Tate Modern
A new series of fresco paintings by Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings (Ending Soon Sun, 7th May)
Tate Britain
This display, marking the 200th anniversary of the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, celebrates the female UCL teachers and students who were core to ancient language teaching in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Ending Soon Sat, 27th May)
Free
War Games
The UK’s first exhibition to explore what video games can tell us about conflict. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th May)
Imperial War Museum
The V&A's first exhibition to celebrate the colourful and dynamic popular culture of South Korea, following its early origins to its place on the global stage today. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Jun)
Victoria and Albert Museum
Free
Yinka Ilori
Dive into the colourful world of artist/designer Yinka Ilori through installations, patterns and graphics that aim to shape and inspire a joyful and playful experience. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Jun)
The Design Museum
Discover the natural world in all its wonder and diversity at the newly redesigned Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Jul)
Natural History Museum
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
Astronomy Photographer of the Year is an annual competition featuring the world’s greatest space photography. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Aug)
National Maritime Museum
Free
Road to Recovery
This exhibition follows the challenging journeys of rehabilitation and recovery taken by soldiers who have suffered a life-changing physical or mental injury. (Ending Soon Mon, 28th Aug)
National Army Museum
This display celebrates the glittering world of musical theatre, exploring the evolution and craftmanship of iconic musicals (Ending Soon Mon, 27th Nov)
Victoria and Albert 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
