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.
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
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
This new free exhibition is an interactive art installation exploring the lives of five people who were buried at St James’s Burial Ground next to Euston Station during the 1700s and 1800s. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)
St James's Church
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
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
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
This exhibition by Gilbert & George contains the most profoundly personal and confrontational pictures they have ever created. (Ending Soon Sat, 20th May)
White Cube
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)
Fifty years on from the release of David Bowie’s album, this exhibition delves into the creation of its iconic ‘lightning bolt’ cover portrait by Brian Duffy. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th May)
Southbank Centre
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
Learn about the story of Highgrove's transformation through newly-uncovered archival photographs and early design plans. (Ending Soon Mon, 29th May)
The Garrison Chapel
£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
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
Visit the EES London Office to learn how the artists of the Society for the Preservation of the Monuments of Ancient Egypt (SPMAE) have preserved an imagined past of ancient Egypt, which still inspires a sense of wonder in viewers today. (Ending Soon Wed, 21st Jun)
The Egypt Exploration Society
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 Front Door Photography Exhibition is part of the Disability and the Home project exploring the idea of the home in relation to the lived experience of disabled people. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Jun)
The Museum of the Home
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
Taking over The Curve, you’re invited to become a part of the art, built on site using objects foraged from some of the UK’s cultural institutions and exhibitions. (Ending Soon Mon, 26th Jun)
Barbican Centre
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
This exhibition shines a spotlight on the aristocratic habit of collecting valuable objects to create what were known as Cabinets of Curiosities, which developed in the courts of Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance. (Ending Soon Wed, 19th Jul)
Strawberry Hill
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
£16.50
Ai Weiwei: Making Sense
Ai Weiwei's exhibition focuses on design with a mix recent works and commissioned pieces, inviting us into a meditation on value and humanity, art and activism. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Jul)
The Design 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 exhibition looks at the origins of the war and the work of the British Army to assist Ukraine since 2014. (Ending Soon Tue, 1st Aug)
National Army 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
£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
£12.65
Andy Warhol: The Textiles
An exhibition exploring the beautiful and fascinating textile designs by the influential pop artist and icon Andy Warhol. (Ending Soon Sat, 9th Sep)
Fashion and Textile 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
This exhibition brings together around 30 of Morisot’s masterpieces from international collections to reveal the artist as a trailblazer of the movement. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Free
Milk
This exhibition explores our relationship with milk and its place in politics, society and culture. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)
Wellcome Collection
See an edition of Shakespeare's First Folio on display at the National Maritime Museum, celebrating 400 years since its publication. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)
National Maritime Museum
£22
The Rossettis
A major exhibition devoted to the radical Rossetti generation (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)
Tate Britain
This exhibition explores our devotion to four-legged friends across the centuries. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Oct)
Wallace Collection
£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
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
Four times heavier than Dippy the Diplodocus, 12 metres longer than Hope the blue whale and making its European debut, prepare to meet titanosaur and learn all about life as the biggest dinosaur. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)
Natural History 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
Free
Unforgotten Lives
This exhibition presents the stories of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage who lived and worked in the city between 1560 and 1860 and are recorded in London’s archives. (Ending Soon Wed, 27th Mar)
London Metropolitan Archives
This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers. (Ending Soon Fri, 5th Apr)
Barbican Centre
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
