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.

A celebration of the huge contribution made to music and culture by Black British musical families, curated by the Black Music Coalition. (Ending Soon Wed, 25th Jan)

Barbican Library
EC2Y 8DS
2023-01-24
Black British Dynasties in Music: A Family Affair
A selection of works by George Westren that represent twenty years of dedicated practice from humble beginnings, through the challenges of homelessness & addiction, to eventual salvation through art. (Ending Soon Wed, 25th Jan)

Saatchi Gallery
SW3 4RY
2023-01-24
George Westren: On the straight and narrow
Futures Past takes the viewer on an immersive journey through the excavated ruins of the future filled with digital and sculptural works. (Ending Soon Sat, 28th Jan)

arebyte Gallery
E14 0LG
2023-01-24
Futures Past
Winter Lights festival is the largest of its kind in London, transforming Canary Wharf with over 20 stunning installations, leaving the dark winter evenings aglow. (Ending Soon Sat, 28th Jan)

Canada Square Park
E14 5AB
2023-01-24
Winter Lights festival
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
W8 5SA
2023-01-24
The Carpenters’ Line: Woodworking Heritage in Hida Takayama
To mark the anniversary of Tutankhamun's discovery, the British Museum has commissioned a work by Egyptian graffiti artist Nofal O. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Jan)

British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2023-01-24
Tutankhamun reimagined
This outdoor photographic exhibition celebrates how Marble Hill has been enjoyed by the local community since becoming a public park. (Ending Soon Tue, 31st Jan)

Marble Hill House
TW1 2NL
2023-01-24
Our Marble Hill 1902 -2022
A video projection each evening showing the moment in 1814 when an elephant walked across the frozen Thames. (Ending Soon Tue, 31st Jan)

Dirty Lane Gate
SE1 9DG
2023-01-24
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
E1 4DQ
2023-01-24
Feeding the Hamlets: Exploring the history of food production in the East End
Luke Jerram returns to the Old Royal Naval College with his incredible artwork Museum of the Moon. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Feb)

Old Royal Naval College
SE10 9LW
2023-01-24
Museum of the Moon
The Ward – Revisited marks 30 years since Gideon Mendel photographed John, Andre, Steven and Ian in the AIDS wards at the Middlesex Hospital. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Feb)

Fitzrovia Chapel
W1T 3BF
2023-01-24
The Ward Revisited
Visit the Woven Cities display to see the brand-new London Woven Crest alongside the crests from Amsterdam and Rome. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Feb)

Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
W11 1QT
2023-01-24
Woven Cities: The unveiling of London’s Woven Crest
An exhibition of rare costumes and ephemera.  (Ending Soon Sat, 11th Feb)

Horse Hospital
WC1N 1JD
2023-01-24
DRÔLE: An Exhibition of Rare Clown Costume & Ephemera
An exhibition exploring the different ways we see and are seen by others.  (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Feb)

Wellcome Collection
NW1 2BE
2023-01-24
In Plain Sight
The first major UK exhibition devoted to pioneering women working in Germany in the early 1900s. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Feb)

Royal Academy of Arts
W1J 0BD
2023-01-24
Making Modernism
He built an empire that stretched across the world. Rode across the sky on a flying chariot. And descended to the bottom of the sea in a glass bell. Or did he? (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Feb)

The British Library
NW1 2DB
2023-01-24
Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth
A major exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Feb)

The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2023-01-24
Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt
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
W8 6AG
2023-01-24
Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today
Through some of our country’s most provocative artists, this exhibition presents an alternative perspective on modern Britain. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Feb)

Somerset House
WC2R 1LA
2023-01-24
The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain
See portraits of the full England football squad and manager by artist Matt Small. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Feb)

Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
EC2V 5AE
2023-01-24
This is England
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
WC1N 1AZ
2023-01-24
Tiny Traces: African & Asian Children at London’s Foundling Hospital
For the first time in a century, two ground-breaking paintings by Turner are coming home for a special exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Feb)

National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2023-01-24
Turner on Tour
The Church’s gold apse and white-flowered, coffered, ceiling, will be flooded with exploratory light and reverberate to the sublime sound of George Frederic Handel. (Ending Soon Thu, 23rd Feb)

St Mary Le Strand
WC2R 1ES
2023-01-24
St Mary le Strand Speaks! Sound and Light Installation
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
WC1B 3DG
2023-01-24
Art on paper since 1960 - the Hamish Parker collection
Tate Britain celebrates the return of Yiadom-Boakye's 2020 major survey which was sadly cut short by lockdown (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Feb)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2023-01-24
 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Fly In League With The Night
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
EC2Y 8DS
2023-01-24
Soheila Sokhanvari - Rebel Rebel
This virtual rhino will be roaming in a digital world within the Museum’s Jerwood Gallery as part of a new art exhibition from artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. (Ending Soon Tue, 28th Feb)

Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD
2023-01-24
The Lost Rhino
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
2023-01-24
The Remnants by Anton Alvarez
The Cost of Living Crisis has the whole of England feeling like we're living in a madhouse so we’re looking back to the master of wacky solutions W. Heath Robinson himself! (Ending Soon Wed, 1st Mar)

Cartoon Museum
W1A 3AE
2023-01-24
Eight pieces of artwork, curated in partnership with Light Art Collection, will be on display both outdoors and inside the Power Station. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Mar)

Battersea Power Station
SW11 8EZ
2023-01-24
The Light Festival at Battersea Power Station
At the heart of Ilford Limited is analogue photography and this display shows the beauty of Ilford film as a tool to experiment, make portraits and capture people’s stories. (Ending Soon Sat, 11th Mar)

Redbridge Museum
IG1 1EA
2023-01-24
Ilford Limited: Analogue Stories
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
SE1 3XF
2023-01-24
Kaffe Fassett: The Power of Pattern
£22  
Tate Modern presents a once-in-a-generation exhibition of paintings, watercolours and drawings by Paul Cezanne. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Mar)

Tate Modern
SE1 9TG
2023-01-24
Cezanne
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
SE21 7AD
2023-01-24
M.K. Čiurlionis: Between Worlds
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
SE21 7AD
2023-01-24
Anthony Daley: Son of Rubens
The life and work of renowned 19th-century naval surgeon and physician, Sir William Beatty, is explored in all its fascinating – and often grisly. (Ending Soon Sat, 25th Mar)

Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre
SE10 9NN
2023-01-24
Blood & Battle: Dissecting the Life of William Beatty
This show exhibits new 3-D photography from Brian May’s latest publication ‘Stereoscopy Is Good For You: Life in 3-D’. (Ending Soon Sat, 25th Mar)

Proud Galleries
WC2N 6BP
2023-01-24
Stereoscopy Is Good For You: Life in 3-D
The exhibition explores three generations of artists, from Iran and the Arab world, from the early pioneers of a vernacular ‘Lettrism’ movement to those incorporating the written word in their works today.  (Ending Soon Sat, 25th Mar)

Brunei Gallery, SOAS
WC1H 0XG
2023-01-24
The Future of Traditions, Writing Pictures: Contemporary Art from the Middle East
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
EC1R 0HB
2023-01-24
Magnificent Maps of London
Letters, books and documents are displayed to show some of the links between the Church of England and transatlantic chattel slavery.  (Ending Soon Fri, 31st Mar)

Lambeth Palace Library
SE1 7JU
2023-01-24
From tradeswomen, to community organisers, faith leaders, artists, and shopkeepers; this exhibition showcases and celebrates the many women who contribute to life in Bethnal Green (Ending Soon Fri, 31st Mar)

Oxford House
E2 6HG
2023-01-24
Women of the Bethnal Green at Work
The exhibition brings iconic and unknown archival documents to life, including the original Treason Act and the Monteagle Letter that tipped off the Gunpowder Plot.  (Ending Soon Thu, 6th Apr)

The National Archives
TW9 4DU
2023-01-24
Treason: People, Power & Plot
This landmark exhibition, with over 150 dazzling and fascinating pieces, explores the art and culture of the Hispanic world. (Ending Soon Mon, 10th Apr)

Royal Academy of Arts
W1J 0BD
2023-01-24
Spain and the Hispanic World
This exhibition explores the relationship between materials and supply chains, and addresses the opportunity and potential of locally grown, plant-based construction materials that are cultivated across the UK. (Ending Soon Sat, 15th Apr)

Building Centre
WC1E 7BT
2023-01-24
Homegrown: Building a Post-carbon Future
Delicate, evocative plaster sculptures inspired by the natural world (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Apr)

Tate Modern
SE1 9TG
2023-01-24
Maria Bartuszová
This exhibition explores the lives and legacies of émigré musicians who fled the Nazi regime and the ravages of war. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Apr)

Royal College of Music
SW7 2BS
2023-01-24
An exhibition of cartoons about Boris Johnson. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Apr)

Cartoon Museum
W1A 3AE
2023-01-24
This Exhibition is a WORK EVENT!
An exhibition about the history and impact of the Chinese community in the UK, and to understand what it really means to be Chinese and British. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)

British Library
NW1 2DB
2023-01-24
Chinese and British
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
TW9 1TP
2023-01-24
100 years of The Poppy Factory
Thamesmead Codex celebrates the voices and local community of Thamesmead, London (Ending Soon Sun, 7th May)

Tate Modern
SE1 9TG
2023-01-24
 Bob and Roberta Smith: Thamesmead Codex
A new series of fresco paintings by Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings (Ending Soon Sun, 7th May)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2023-01-24
Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings
Explore a forest of towering woven sculptures (Ending Soon Sun, 21st May)

Tate Modern
SE1 9TG
2023-01-24
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Focusing on Jacopo de' Barbari and his celebrated 'View of Venice', this display showcases the innovation and variety of printmaking on the lagoon during the High Renaissance. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st May)

British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2023-01-24
Venice 1500 Jacopo de' Barbari and the rise of printmaking
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)

2023-01-24
 Women and hieroglyphs: Teaching ancient languages at UCL
Free  
The UK’s first exhibition to explore what video games can tell us about conflict. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th May)

Imperial War Museum
SE1 6HZ
2023-01-24
War Games
The exhibition explores how Jews arrived in Britain, and fought for the right to acquire land and the political rights and social status that came with it (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Jun)

Gunnersbury Park Museum
W3 8LQ
2023-01-24
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
SW7 2RL
2023-01-24
Hallyu! The Korean Wave
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
W8 6AG
2023-01-24
Yinka Ilori
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
SW7 5BD
2023-01-24
 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Free  
Photographs will be displayed alongside objects ranging from stethoscopes to snuff boxes, bringing together the worlds of medicine and art. (Ending Soon Fri, 28th Jul)

Royal College of Physicians Museum
NW1 4LE
2023-01-24
Unfamiliar
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
2023-01-24
Hidden London: The Exhibition
Astronomy Photographer of the Year is an annual competition featuring the world’s greatest space photography.  (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Aug)

National Maritime Museum
SE10 9NF
2023-01-24
Astronomy Photographer of the Year
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
SW3 4HT
2023-01-24
Road to Recovery
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
SW7 2RL
2023-01-24
Re:Imagining Musicals
This exhibition celebrates the Tercentenary of the Constitutions of the Freemasons. (Ending Soon Thu, 21st Dec)

Museum of Freemasonry
WC2B 5AZ
2023-01-24
Inventing the Future
This exhibition explores the worldwide effort to develop vaccines at pandemic speed. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2023-01-24
Injecting Hope: The race for a COVID-19 vaccine
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
EC2R 8AH
2023-01-24
Slavery & the Bank
How do you develop a vaccine quickly and effectively to combat a global pandemic?  (Ends on Sun, 12th May)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2023-01-24
Injecting Hope: The race for a COVID-19 vaccine
This exhibition follows the lives of British soldiers in Germany over the past 75 years. (Ends on Wed, 21st Aug)

National Army Museum
SW3 4HT
2023-01-24
 Foe to Friend: The British Army in Germany since 1945