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.
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
Free
Decorated Papers
The exhibition includes over 200 papers from the early 18th century to the present day from Germany, Italy, France and Britain. (Ending Soon Sat, 24th Jun)
St Bride Foundation
This exhibition aims to acquaint a wider public with some unique aspects of Jaina traditions. (Ending Soon Sat, 24th Jun)
Brunei Gallery, SOAS
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
£27.50
London Design Biennale
London Design Biennale is an opportunity to see world leading innovation and creativity from participants across the globe, inspiring audiences with design. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Jun)
Somerset House
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
For this year’s London Festival of Architecture, come and see a plethora of drawings by Anna Gibb - architect, and fervent illustrator. (Ending Soon Wed, 28th Jun)
Barbican Centre
This exhibition highlights the very best of Korean aesthetics through the concept of ‘Weaving’. (Ending Soon Fri, 30th Jun)
Korean Cultural Centre UK
Paying homage to the long-running ITV travel show, “Wish You Were Here…?” the exhibition takes a playful look at holidaying and travel escapism. (Ending Soon Sat, 1st Jul)
TAG Fine Arts, C/O Gallery 46
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
A display of a beautifully crafted model of a festival float, set on a wheeled carriage, that was donated to the British Museum in 1908. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Jul)
British Museum
A free outdoor exhibition of photography, art and history from the archives and collections of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, held by Barts Health NHS Trust Archives. (Ending Soon Wed, 5th Jul)
Aldgate Square
Delve into the incredible creative world of Wes Anderson with this immersive 180 exhibition that transports you into the realm of the director’s new film, Asteroid City. (Ending Soon Fri, 7th Jul)
180 Studios
The exhibition celebrates the history and continued contemporary influence of the film that would not die. (Ending Soon Sat, 8th Jul)
Horse Hospital
The RHS return to Saatchi Gallery for the third year in a row to showcase new work from leading botanical artists and photographers across three galleries. (Ending Soon Sun, 9th Jul)
Saatchi Gallery
Free
No Place Like Home
The collaborative exhibition features a group of Vietnamese diasporic artists presenting works about the theme of home through the Vietnamese cultural lens. (Ending Soon Tue, 11th Jul)
The Museum of the Home
An exhibition of materials relating to previous coronations from that of Henry I in 1100 to that of our new sovereign. (Ending Soon Tue, 11th Jul)
Lambeth Palace Library
A small temporary exhibition looks at Hackney Health Emergency, a successful people-led campaign to save St Leonard’s Hospital in Shoreditch from closure in 1983-84. (Ending Soon Sat, 15th Jul)
Hackney Museum
An exhibition of models of houses originally realised for the garden of a home for the elderly in Lower Austria (Ending Soon Sat, 15th Jul)
Bosse & Baum
The exhibition showcases Feliks Topolski’s lifelong commitment to reportage. (Ending Soon Sat, 15th Jul)
Topolski Studio
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
This exhibition explores the design story of the Moonsoon bar and restaurant (1979-80), Zaha Hadid’s first completed project outside of the UK. (Ending Soon Sat, 22nd Jul)
Zaha Hadid Foundation
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
Come face-to-face with one of history’s most inspirational and revered figures in the first major UK art exhibition to explore Saint Francis of Assisi’s life and legacy. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Jul)
National Gallery
The display celebrates monumental painters of the capital and showcases some of the largest paintings in the Gallery’s collection. (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
This exhibition showcases a number of Bikky’s sculptures, wooden masks, paintings and drawings, made during his mature period, 1975 – 1986, when he was living in Otoineppu village, Hokkaido. (Ending Soon Thu, 10th Aug)
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
He is, arguably, the Bloomsbury group’s least well-known member, and now the first major exhibition of his work is aiming to return Tomlin to the artistic spotlight where he belongs. (Ending Soon Fri, 11th Aug)
Philip Mould & Company
Astronomy Photographer of the Year is an annual competition featuring the world’s greatest space photography. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Aug)
National Maritime Museum
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece moves beyond ancient Greek spin to delve into a more complex story of luxury and power in ancient Iran, Athens, and the world of Alexander. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Aug)
British Museum
The first major UK exhibition by one of today's most compelling artists and filmmakers. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Aug)
Tate Britain
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
The first UK exhibition for this renowned Basque artist, whose varied work often explores the relationship between nature and culture, and draws on personal, political and cultural histories. (Ending Soon Sun, 27th Aug)
Raven Row
See how documenting the animal world has resulted in some of humankind’s most awe-inspiring art, science and sound recordings. (Ending Soon Mon, 28th Aug)
British Library
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
An exhibition of impressive large scale photographs, ‘Eternal Bloom’ by Harald Altmaier, a celebration of natural creation and creative talent. (Ending Soon Thu, 31st Aug)
Upstairs Gallery at Connolly
Free
Architects' Houses
This exhibition celebrates five London houses all of which (like the Soane Museum) have been designed by the architects who lived and, in some cases, still live in them. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)
Sir John Soane's Museum
Explore the work and career of Carrie Mae Weems in this first major UK exhibition dedicated to one of the most influential American artists working today. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)
Barbican Centre
The exhibition highlights the ways in which artists are helping to reframe and deepen our psychological and spiritual responses to the climate crisis. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)
Hayward Gallery
Explore the powerful work of two groundbreaking modern artists. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)
Tate Modern
A selection of lesser-known works from The Courtauld’s collection of Post-Impressionist art is on display this summer. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)
Courtauld Institute of Art
£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 exhibition explores complex relationships between land, its materiality and memory in modern and contemporary artistic practice. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)
Courtauld Institute of Art
£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
The first exhibition focusing on the magnificent garden paintings of Jean Esme Oregon Cooke RA (1927-2008). (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)
Garden Museum
Free
Milk
This exhibition explores our relationship with milk and its place in politics, society and culture. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)
Wellcome Collection
An acclaimed artist working with ceramics, Bouke de Vries’ latest work will respond to William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress, and be displayed in the Museum’s Foyle Space. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)
Sir John Soane's Museum
Free
Bowie and Beyond
This exhibition looks at the remarkable moment that Ziggy Stardust was launched in Tolworth and the wider music and pop culture scene in the borough. (Ending Soon Sat, 16th Sep)
Kingston Museum
An exhibition offering an unprecedented look at 150 contemporary photographers tracking the visual threads of humankind’s ever-changing, extraordinarily complex life across the globe. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Sep)
Saatchi Gallery
£12.60
The Offbeat Sari
A major exhibition celebrating the contemporary sari. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Sep)
The Design Museum
An exhibition capturing the history of Queen through Sir Brian May's own Stereoscopic (3-D) camera lenses. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd Sep)
Proud Galleries
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
An exhibition of works by Brian Clarke, who is widely regarded to be the most important artist working in stained glass today. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)
Newport Street Gallery
A free display of new design research responding to the climate crisis. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)
The Design Museum
£22
The Rossettis
A major exhibition devoted to the radical Rossetti generation (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)
Tate Britain
This exhibition chronicles the evolution of music photography over the last 70 years. It showcases iconic rock and roll images and the photographers who shot them. (Ending Soon Mon, 25th Sep)
Barbican Centre
This exhibition in the Chapter House will reveal the key elements of the royal ceremony which has taken place at the Abbey for nearly a thousand years. (Ending Soon Sat, 30th Sep)
Westminster Abbey
The exhibition explores De Morgan’s unique practice of making gold drawings, showcasing 13 artworks. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Oct)
Leighton House Museum
This display showcases drawings, paintings, sculpture and decorative arts that are not what they seem. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Oct)
Courtauld Institute of Art
In a global first, the resilience and innovation of 19th-century China is revealed in a major new exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Oct)
British Museum
This exhibition explores what the Georgians wore, from the practical dress of laundry maids to the glittering gowns worn at court. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Oct)
The Queen's Gallery
The narratives featured in the exhibition will prompt visitors to consider what new possibilities emerge when they are invited as readers to become a part of the story themselves. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Oct)
British Library
This exhibition explores our devotion to four-legged friends across the centuries. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Oct)
Wallace Collection
Visit this re-creation of Wren’s St Paul’s working ‘office’ and experience the intensity of a significant moment in the Capital’s history, the rebuilding of London and the new St Paul’s cathedral after the 1666 fire. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Oct)
Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
An exploration of the life and career of Yevonde, the pioneering London photographer who spearheaded the use of colour photography in the 1930s. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Oct)
National Portrait Gallery
This exhibition peers through the London fog to explore the circumstances that created this problem and how Dickens was inspired by the phenomenon. (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd Oct)
Charles Dickens Museum
Photographer Philip Cunningham's exhibition of people, places and community activism in 1970s East London. (Ending Soon Fri, 27th Oct)
Oxford House
£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
£28
Crown to Couture
Crown to Couture sees contemporary couture worn by high profile celebrities including Lizzo and Lady Gaga, displayed alongside historic costumes. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Oct)
Kensington Palace
A display exploring the underrepresented history of Indian indenture in the British Caribbean. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Nov)
Museum of London Docklands
Free
The Polar Silk Road
Gregor Sailer's photography exhibition explores the new Arctic trade routes opening due to melting ice cap. (Ending Soon Fri, 24th Nov)
Natural History 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 brings together a group of new and existing sculptures to explore Black women’s labour across histories and geographies. (Ending Soon Mon, 1st Jan)
Tate Britain
This exhibition explores the worldwide effort to develop vaccines at pandemic speed. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)
Science Museum
This exhibition will invite visitors to further their understanding of the Troubles through the multiple perspectives of individuals affected by the conflict. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)
Imperial War 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
An exhibition that takes a questioning, surprising and playful look at the ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already shaping so many areas of our lives (Ending Soon Sat, 20th Jan)
Science Gallery London
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 explores the dynamic relationship between contemporary painting and photography. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Jan)
Tate Modern
Free
Genetic Automata
This is an ongoing body of video works by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, videogames and DNA ancestry. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Feb)
Wellcome Collection
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