Welcome to the IanVisits alternative guide to London.
Lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random geeky miscellany.
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
Free
Chimps Are Family
This outdoor exhibition featured 28 chimps dotted around the South Bank. (Ends on Fri, 21st Oct)
various locations
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. (Ends on Wed, 26th Oct)
London Metropolitan Archives
Encounter a little known and rarely seen side of Britain’s greatest artist. (Ends on Sun, 30th Oct)
Turner's House
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 (Ends on 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. (Ends on Sun, 6th Nov)
Victoria and Albert Museum
A display of photographs capturing factories and their workers in an era of rapid transition. (Ends on 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. (Ends on 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. (Ends on Fri, 2nd Dec)
Royal College of Physicians Museum
An exhibition exploring the trail-blazing research that is turning the tide on cancer (Ends on Sat, 3rd Dec)
The Francis Crick Institute
A display honouring the music, people and places central to the grime scene and its roots in East London. (Ends on Sun, 4th Dec)
Museum of London
An exhibition about the work of Luigi Pericle, whose enigmatic imagery was the subject of numerous exhibitions during the early 1960s until he retreated into seculusion. (Ends on Sun, 18th Dec)
Estorick Collection
A display celebrating one of the city's most iconic sporting heroes, both on and off the pitch. (Ends on Fri, 23rd Dec)
Museum of London
This world-first, object-rich exhibition reveals the past, present and future of how cancer is prevented, detected and treated. (Ends on Sat, 31st Dec)
Science Museum
Free
Treasures
Spanning centuries, the unexpected treasures on display in the Art Deco library include hand-drawn illustrations, curious texts and beguiling bindings. (Ends on Sat, 31st Dec)
Museum of Freemasonry
Discover the ground-breaking technology that changed the post forever in a new exhibition. (Ends on Sun, 1st Jan)
The Postal Museum
Celebrating the life and work of one of the best loved children's authors of the 20th century. (Ends on Sun, 8th Jan)
Victoria and Albert Museum
New research into IWM’s photography archive demonstrates just how keenly The Queen’s role as monarch has been shaped by her wartime experiences. (Ends on Sun, 8th Jan)
Imperial War Museum
The first exhibition of Lucian Freud’s work in the home of his grandfather, Sigmund Freud, and aunt, Anna Freud (Ends on Sun, 29th Jan)
Freud Museum
An installation of six large-scale clay columns inspired by traditional architectural practices in Chile, by Swedish-Chilean artist Anton Alvarez (Ends on Tue, 28th Feb)
100 Bishopsgate
£22
Cezanne
Tate Modern presents a once-in-a-generation exhibition of paintings, watercolours and drawings by Paul Cezanne. (Ends on Sun, 12th Mar)
Tate Modern
