What's on in London on Saturday 21st December 2024

£16.50  Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre

Unravel the epic story of birds, discover the secrets to their success and learn some of their surprising and often shocking tactics for survival.

£20  Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection

Showcasing over 300 rare prints from 140 photographers, this exhibition is a major presentation of twentieth and twenty-first century photography on loan from the private collection of Sir Elton John and David Furnish.

Free  Jason and the Adventure of 254

The exhibition is a joyful exploration of the body, drawing on the artist’s experience of becoming disabled as a child.

£13.13  Faithful Companions: Charles Dickens & his Pets

This is the first exhibition to celebrate the animals that found their way into the books and homes of Charles Dickens.

£18  Zanele Muholi

Over 300 photographs will be brought together to present the breadth of Muholi’s career to date, from their very first body of work to their latest and on-going series.

£18  Barbie: The Exhibition

Journey into the Barbie universe and discover over 250 remarkable objects, with rare, unique and innovative dolls dating from 1959 to the present day.

Free  Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome

The National Gallery celebrates the first public display in a decade, following conservation, of a masterpiece of Italian Mannerism, Parmigianino’s Madonna and Child with Saints

£19  Drawing the Italian Renaissance

Bringing together around 160 of these works by more than 80 artists, this exhibition explores how drawing became central to every stage of the creative process.