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.

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
E1 2AJ
2023-07-01
Wish You Were Here...?
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
2023-07-01
 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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
WC1B 3DG
2023-07-01
Japan's festival floats
An exhibition of photographs of gas holder structures around the UK. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Jul)

Gareth Gardner gallery
SE8 4AL
2023-07-01
Richard Chivers: OFF-Grid
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
EC3N 1AF
2023-07-01
 Life and death in the archives: St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1123-2023
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
WC2R 1EA
2023-07-01
Wes Anderson - Asteroid City
The exhibition celebrates the history and continued contemporary influence of the film that would not die. (Ending Soon Sat, 8th Jul)

Horse Hospital
WC1N 1JD
2023-07-01
Flesh to Touch, Flesh To Burn! Don't Keep The Wicker Man Waiting!
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
SW3 4RY
2023-07-01
RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show 2023
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
E2 8EA
2023-07-01
 No Place Like Home
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
E8 1GQ
2023-07-01
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
SE15 4ST
2023-07-01
Kateřina Šedá: I Would Name My House the Swallow’s Nest
The exhibition showcases Feliks Topolski’s lifelong commitment to reportage. (Ending Soon Sat, 15th Jul)

Topolski Studio
SE1 8XU
2023-07-01
Punks, Princes and Protests: The Chronicles of Feliks Topolski RA
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
NW3 5SX
2023-07-01
Freud's Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire
This exhibition explores and investigates certain acts of tyranny, particularly within the context of the Pan-Africanism ideal and Pan-Arabism dream.  (Ending Soon Wed, 19th Jul)

The Africa Centre
SE1 0BL
2023-07-01
Totalitarian Props
Hackney Museum is inviting residents to step back in time with its new temporary exhibition. (Ending Soon Sat, 22nd Jul)

Hackney Museum
E8 1GQ
2023-07-01
Hackney 300,000 BC
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
EC1R 0BQ
2023-07-01
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
W8 6AG
2023-07-01
Ai Weiwei: Making Sense
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
WC2N 5DN
2023-07-01
Saint Francis of Assisi
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
EC2V 5AE
2023-07-01
The Big City: London painted on a grand scale
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
2023-07-01
Hidden London: The Exhibition
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
SW3 4HT
2023-07-01
The British Army and Ukraine
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
W1U 3BN
2023-07-01
The Queen and her Corgis
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
WC2A 2HD
2023-07-01
Clothing this Naked Earth: Politics and the Planet
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
2023-07-01
Astronomy Photographer of the Year
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
WC1B 3DG
2023-07-01
Luxury and power Persia to Greece
The first major UK exhibition by one of today's most compelling artists and filmmakers. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Aug)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2023-07-01
Isaac Julien - What Freedom is to Me
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
SW7 2DD
2023-07-01
Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination
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
WC1N 1AZ
2023-07-01
Finding Family
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
E1 7LS
2023-07-01
Ibon Aranberri – Unequal Diameters
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
NW1 2DB
2023-07-01
Animals: Art, Science and Sound
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
2023-07-01
Road to Recovery
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
W1S 2LG
2023-07-01
Eternal Bloom by Harald Altmaier
This exhibition takes a visual journey from workhouses to slum clearances, tower blocks and homeless shelters, to explore how photographs have represented these conditions for over a century. (Ending Soon Sat, 2nd Sep)

Four Corners Gallery
E2 0QN
2023-07-01
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
WC2A 3BP
2023-07-01
Architects' Houses
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
EC2Y 8DS
2023-07-01
Carrie Mae Weems - Reflections for Now
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
SE1 8XX
2023-07-01
Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis
Explore the powerful work of two groundbreaking modern artists. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

Tate Modern
SE1 9TG
2023-07-01
Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian Forms of Life
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
WC2R 0RN
2023-07-01
Post-Impressionist collection display
Discover the story of definitive stamps, from the very first design to today.  (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

The Postal Museum
WC1X 0DA
2023-07-01
The King's Stamp
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
WC2R 0RN
2023-07-01
Unearthing: Memory, Land, Materiality
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
SE1 3XF
2023-07-01
Andy Warhol: The Textiles
Klara Kristalova presents her new body of work in the artist’s first solo exhibition in London. (Ending Soon Sat, 9th Sep)

Cromwell Place
SW7 2JE
2023-07-01
The Cold Wind and the Warm
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
W5 5EQ
2023-07-01
Anthony Caro: The Inspiration of Architecture
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
SE21 7AD
2023-07-01
Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism
The first exhibition focusing on the magnificent garden paintings of Jean Esme Oregon Cooke RA (1927-2008). (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)

Garden Museum
SE1 7LB
2023-07-01
Jean Cooke: Ungardening
Free  
This exhibition explores our relationship with milk and its place in politics, society and culture. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)

Wellcome Collection
NW1 2BE
2023-07-01
Milk
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
WC2A 3BP
2023-07-01
Visions in Porcelain: A Rake’s Progress
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
KT1 2PS
2023-07-01
Bowie and Beyond
This exhibition seeks to explain the development of travel and what an increasingly wider public has required for education and leisure. (Ending Soon Sat, 16th Sep)

Fan Museum
SE10 8ER
2023-07-01
How To Get There: Travel and Holidays.
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
SW3 4RY
2023-07-01
Civilization: The Way We Live Now
Explore a magical world of fairy tales, as seen through the eyes of two iconic illustrators. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Sep)

Heath Robinson Museum
HA5 1AE
2023-07-01
Happily Ever After? Illustrating Andersen & Perrault
A major exhibition celebrating the contemporary sari. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Sep)

The Design Museum
W8 6AG
2023-07-01
The Offbeat Sari
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
WC2N 6BP
2023-07-01
Queen will rock you in 3D
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
SE10 9NF
2023-07-01
 The Tempest and the Thames
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
SE11 6AJ
2023-07-01
Brian Clarke : A Great Light
A free display of new design research responding to the climate crisis. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)

The Design Museum
W8 6AG
2023-07-01
Design Researchers in Residence: Islands
A major exhibition devoted to the radical Rossetti generation (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2023-07-01
The Rossettis
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
EC2Y 8DS
2023-07-01
In The Moment: The Art of Music Photography
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
SW1P 3PA
2023-07-01
Coronation exhibition
The exhibition explores De Morgan’s unique practice of making gold drawings, showcasing 13 artworks. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Oct)

Leighton House Museum
W14 8LZ
2023-07-01
Evelyn De Morgan: The Gold Drawings
An unprecedented exhibition, revealing – for the first time – extraordinary photographs taken by Paul McCartney. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Oct)

National Portrait Gallery
WC2H 0HE
2023-07-01
Paul McCartney - Photographs  1963–64 Eyes of the Storm
This display showcases drawings, paintings, sculpture and decorative arts that are not what they seem.  (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Oct)

Courtauld Institute of Art
WC2R 0RN
2023-07-01
Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection
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
WC1B 3DG
2023-07-01
China's hidden century
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
SW1A 1AA
2023-07-01
Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians
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
NW1 2DB
2023-07-01
Digital Storytelling
This exhibition explores our devotion to four-legged friends across the centuries. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Oct)

Wallace Collection
W1U 3BN
2023-07-01
Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney
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
EC2V 5AE
2023-07-01
Wren at Work - Wren300 Exhibition
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
WC2H 0HE
2023-07-01
Yevonde - Life and Colour
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
WC1N 2LX
2023-07-01
A Great and Dirty City: Dickens and the London Fog
Photographer Philip Cunningham's exhibition of people, places and community activism in 1970s East London.  (Ending Soon Fri, 27th Oct)

Oxford House
E2 6HG
2023-07-01
Philip Cunningham’s ‘Lost East End’
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
SE23 3PQ
2023-07-01
Brick Dinos
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
W8 4PX
2023-07-01
Crown to Couture
This exhibition tells the story of the Mall Studios, an artists’ enclave in Hampstead where Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore and Herbert Read changed the face of 20th Century British Art. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Oct)

Isokon Gallery
NW3 2XD
2023-07-01
Modernism at the Mall
A display exploring the underrepresented history of Indian indenture in the British Caribbean. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Nov)

Museum of London Docklands
E14 4AL
2023-07-01
Indo + Caribbean: The creation of a culture
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
SW7 5BD
2023-07-01
The Polar Silk Road
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
2023-07-01
Re:Imagining Musicals
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
NW1 1AT
2023-07-01
This exhibition celebrates the Tercentenary of the Constitutions of the Freemasons. (Ending Soon Thu, 21st Dec)

Museum of Freemasonry
WC2B 5AZ
2023-07-01
Inventing the Future
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
SW1P 4RG
2023-07-01
Art Now: Rhea Dillon: An Alterable Terrain
This exhibition explores the worldwide effort to develop vaccines at pandemic speed. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2023-07-01
Injecting Hope: The race for a COVID-19 vaccine
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
SE1 6HZ
2023-07-01
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
SW7 5BD
2023-07-01
Titanosaur at the 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
SE10 9NE
2023-07-01
The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea
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
SE1 9GU
2023-07-01
AI: Who's Looking After Me?
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
2023-07-01
Slavery & the Bank
This exhibition explores the dynamic relationship between contemporary painting and photography. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Jan)

Tate Modern
SE1 9TG
2023-07-01
Capturing The Moment
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
NW1 2BE
2023-07-01
Genetic Automata
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
EC2Y 8DS
2023-07-01
Concrete and Clay - Archiving the Barbican
£20  
Expect an explosion of over the top fashions at the V&A Museum this summer, as it brings together a collection of outfits worn by celebrities under the title of "divas". (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Apr)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2023-07-01
DIVA
How do you develop a vaccine quickly and effectively to combat a global pandemic?  (Ends on Sun, 12th May)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2023-07-01
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
2023-07-01
 Foe to Friend: The British Army in Germany since 1945