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 aims to give a glimpse of insight into Japan’s close and complex relationship with the four seasons. (Ending Soon Fri, 24th Mar)
Embassy of Japan in the UK
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
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
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
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
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
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
An exhibition about the Kelmscott Press – the 19th century designer William Morris’s printing operation. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Apr)
The William Morris Society
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
£24.50
Spain and the Hispanic World
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
The first major exhibition of paintings by French artist Eugène Leroy in the UK. (Ending Soon Sat, 15th Apr)
Michael Werner Gallery
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
£16
Africa Fashion
Africa Fashion explores the vitality and global impact of a fashion scene as dynamic and varied as the continent itself. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Apr)
Victoria and Albert Museum
£15
Executions
The Museum of London is bringing the lives and legacies of those who died and those who witnessed executions first hand to a major new exhibition (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Apr)
Museum of London Docklands
£16
Maria Bartuszová
Delicate, evocative plaster sculptures inspired by the natural world (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Apr)
Tate Modern
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
An exhibition of cartoons about Boris Johnson. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Apr)
Cartoon Museum
An exhibition of the items found during the excavations of the former St James’s Burial Ground near Euston by HS2. (Ending Soon Sat, 22nd Apr)
St. James's Church
A striking outdoor installation, the work comprises two intersecting spirals, 336 metres long, that echo the signage of UK roads and connects our iconic neoclassical courtyard both to locations across the planet and the distant universe. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)
Somerset House
Free
Chinese and British
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
Free
Print Pound Notes!
The Adana printing press is 100 years old and to mark the centenary of the company St Bride Library launches a new exhibition. (Ending Soon Mon, 24th Apr)
St Bride Foundation
Free
Rites of Passage
Curated by Péjú Oshin, this exhibition features work by eighteen contemporary artists who share a history of migration. (Ending Soon Fri, 28th Apr)
Gagosian
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
arebyte presents Rock Bottom, an exhibition by Abe Sugarman, the winner of hotel generation 2022, arebyte’s yearly programme mentoring the next generation of UK digital artists during the critical early stages of establishing a career in the arts. (Ending Soon Sat, 29th Apr)
arebyte Gallery
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
The first major survey exhibition of large-scale immersive installations and sculptural works by the internationally acclaimed British artist. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th May)
Hayward Gallery
This exhibition presents photographs from internationally renowned photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind between 2014 and June 2022. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th May)
Imperial War Museum
This street art exhibition features original art, rare ephemera, photography, immersive and site-specific installations, archival fashion from over 150 artists. (Ending Soon Tue, 9th May)
Saatchi Gallery
Jean Cooke’s life-long association with the Sussex coast, particularly Birling Gap and the nearby village of East Dean, is explored and celebrated in a new exhibition of her work. (Ending Soon Wed, 10th May)
Piano Nobile
Photography exhibition showing a decade of Walthamstow Market. (Ending Soon Sun, 14th May)
Vestry House Museum
The largest exhibition to date in the UK of American artist Alice Neel, whose vivid portraits capture the shifting social and political context of the American twentieth century. (Ending Soon Sat, 20th May)
Barbican Centre
Explore a forest of towering woven sculptures (Ending Soon Sun, 21st May)
Tate Modern
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
A celebration of one of the UK’s most enduring rock bands. (Ending Soon Mon, 22nd May)
Barbican Library
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)
A rare opportunity to view works from this unique and highly personal collection outside Italy. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th May)
Estorick Collection
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
£16
Peter Doig
A major exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig – including paintings and works on paper created since the artist’s move from Trinidad to London in 2021. (Ending Soon Mon, 29th May)
Courtauld Institute of Art
In this exhibition Baharier is also showcasing a number of portraits of disabled people who have changed society. (Ending Soon Wed, 31st May)
The Foundry
This exhibition will take visitors back in time to a more magical period of retro-futuristic glitz, glamour and adventure, showcasing classic comic artwork based on the worlds of Gerry Anderson. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Jun)
Cartoon Museum
This exhibition brings together intimate depictions of gardens and greenhouses, public parks and favoured plant specimens by artists of the interwar years. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Jun)
Garden Museum
The first major UK exhibition to explore the exceptional talents of the Renaissance master Donatello, arguably the greatest sculptor of all time. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Jun)
Victoria and Albert Museum
Discover the past, present and possible futures of kumihimo, an intricate, decorative braided cord from Japan, in the first major UK exhibition exploring this ancient yet contemporary Japanese art. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Jun)
Japan House London
Artist Nalini Malani, our first National Gallery contemporary fellow, presents new ways of seeing well-known works of art. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Jun)
National Gallery
This exhibition looks again at one of the best-known faces in the National Gallery: Quinten Massys’s 16th-century depiction of an old woman, a painting known as ‘The Ugly Duchess’. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Jun)
National Gallery
Free
The Faces We Present
This exhibition brings portraits of those once hailed as ‘the great and the good’ of mental healthcare face to face with a range of self-depictions that communicate the complexity of the parts we all play in life. (Ending Soon Sat, 17th Jun)
Bethlem Museum of the Mind
Discover the Black artists from America’s South who created some of the most spectacular and ingenious works of the last century. (Ending Soon Sun, 18th Jun)
Royal Academy of Arts
Come and see centuries of royal fans from across the continent: from a special, printed, English fan marking the restoration of Charles II almost 400 years ago, to contemporary fans. (Ending Soon Sat, 24th Jun)
Fan Museum
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
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
A special one-room display celebrates through photographs the unique connection The Queen had with her corgis. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Jun)
Wallace Collection
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
An exhibition exploring the crucial role that Freud’s collection of antiquities played in his development of the concepts and methods of psychoanalysis. (Ending Soon Sun, 16th Jul)
Freud Museum
Free
Hackney 300,000 BC
Hackney Museum is inviting residents to step back in time with its new temporary exhibition. (Ending Soon Sat, 22nd Jul)
Hackney Museum
Free
Unfamiliar
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
Celebrating extraordinary artists who paint London on a huge scale. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Jul)
Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
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
This one-room display celebrates through photographs the unique connection The Queen had with corgis throughout her life. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Aug)
Wallace Collection
What do we find in the LSE Library and Women’s Library archives and special collections if we look for the earth? (Ending Soon Tue, 8th Aug)
LSE Library
Astronomy Photographer of the Year is an annual competition featuring the world’s greatest space photography. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Aug)
National Maritime Museum
In this immersive genre-defying exhibition you will embark on a once in a lifetime adventure through the cosmos to explore visions of the future through the science of today. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Aug)
Science Museum
£9.50
Finding Family
Explore new perspectives on what family is and can be, through this exhibition that showcases the ongoing power of art to challenge and question the world around us. (Ending Soon Sun, 27th Aug)
Foundling 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
£17
The King's Stamp
Discover the story of definitive stamps, from the very first design to today. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)
The Postal Museum
This new exhibition develops a fertile dialogue between Caro’s sculpture and the unique character of Soane’s building. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
The exhibition explores De Morgan’s unique practice of making gold drawings, showcasing 13 artworks. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Oct)
Leighton House Museum
£9
Brick Dinos
A 1.5 metre long model of a Polacanthus, an armoured 125-million-year-old dinosaur found in the UK, will be on show for the first time as part of the Brick Dinos exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Oct)
Horniman 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
Cut + Paste
If you could, would you edit your DNA? To treat disease, or to enhance your body? Which diseases should we try to cure, and who decides? Where would you draw the line? (Ending Soon Sat, 2nd Dec)
The Francis Crick Institute
Free
Inventing the Future
This exhibition celebrates the Tercentenary of the Constitutions of the Freemasons. (Ending Soon Thu, 21st Dec)
Museum of Freemasonry
This exhibition explores the worldwide effort to develop vaccines at pandemic speed. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)
Science Museum
From across the sea, an art revolution is coming. Discover the art of the Van de Veldes at the Queen's House (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Jan)
Queen's House
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
How do you develop a vaccine quickly and effectively to combat a global pandemic? (Ends on Sun, 12th May)
Science Museum
This exhibition follows the lives of British soldiers in Germany over the past 75 years. (Ends on Wed, 21st Aug)
National Army Museum
