What's on in London on Monday 26th February 2024

Free  Mel Calman on Love, Rage and Neurosis

An exhibition of 100 original works by Times' cartoonist Mel Calman, famous for his "little man" and witty one-liners, plus online auction and evening event at which his two daughters are interviewed by LIbby Purves.

Free  How to Build a Low-Carbon Home

How can we design our homes to respond to the climate emergency? Discover how architects are reimagining wood, stone and straw to design homes fit for the future.

Free  Shakespeare’s First Folios: a 400-year journey

This exhibition explores the history of this iconic book through its reproductions as facsimiles, how the text was repackaged and republished and how the book became prized by collectors.

Free  Evolution of the Isle of Dogs

Explore the transformation of the Isle of Dogs, its development, its forgotten places and historic buildings, see how people lived in the past.

Free  Discover Liotard and the Lavergne Family Breakfast

For the first time in 250 years, this exhibition reunites the pastel masterpiece by Swiss artist Jean-Etienne Liotard, painted in Lyon in 1754, with the painted version in oil he completed in London almost 20 years later.

£29  The Indian Army at the Palace

The forgotten story of the Indian Army camps at Hampton Court Palace

£15.50  Kew Gardens 2024 Orchid festival

Kew’s 28th Orchid festival draws inspiration from the unique flora and fauna of Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island.

Free  The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh beckons visitors to contemplate the ephemeral nature of existence, to gaze into the mirror of mortality, and to recognise the universal embrace of life’s impermanence.

Free  Horst Hamann: London Vertical

An exhibition of vertical photographs of London architecture.

Free  Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed

Discover an overlooked Renaissance great in the first-ever exhibition dedicated to Francesco Pesellino (c.1422–1457).