What's on in London on Sunday 16th October 2022

Top events happening London

Emergency Services Day

Every conceivable vehicle and pieces of apparatus used in the emergency services will grace the Museum site in an impressive line-up of display and serving vehicles. This event continues to grow in popularity and presents an exciting but safe environment …

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10:00am to 5:00pm
£19.95
Brooklands Museum, Weybridge

So Last Century Vintage Fair

So Last Century Vintage Fair is back in Catford this autumn at the beautiful St Dunstan’s College There’ll be 50 hand-picked vintage dealers on each day, in two large halls: the 1960s Modernist Refectory and the equally spacious Victorian Great …

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11:00am to 4:00pm
£3
Catford

72 foot tall Launcher One replica rocket on display

A free event in Exhibition Road hosted by the UK Space Agency to mark the first satellite launch from UK soil. A 72ft life-size replica rocket will be on display together with a range of free hands-on educational activities hosted …

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11:00am to 4:00pm
Free
Science Museum, South Kensington

Walk inside an art clad hot air balloon

There will be a chance to walk inside a hot air balloon as it lays flat on the ground. Designed by artists musson+retallick – winners of the Thamesmead Open, an international art competition organised by Peabody – the 25 metre …

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2:00pm to 6:00pm
Free
Thamesmead

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts

This exhibition displays American 20th-century hand-drawn animation alongside French 18th-century art to reveal the surprising and enchanting connections between these two artistic movements. Drawing on the outstanding artworks of the Wallace Collection and spectacular international loans, the exhibition will highlight …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 16th Oct 2022 Closing Soon
£14
Wallace Collection, Marylebone High St

Cornelia Parker

Experience Cornelia Parker’s mesmerising large-scale installations Cornelia Parker is one of Britain’s best loved and most acclaimed contemporary artists. Always driven by curiosity, she reconfigures domestic objects to question our relationship with the world. Using transformation, playfulness and storytelling, she …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 16th Oct 2022 Closing Soon
£16
Tate Britain, Pimlico

Milton Avery - American Colourist

Worshipped by Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, Milton Avery expressed his vision of the world through harmonious colour and simplified forms. Now, for the first time, see the North American painter’s work this side of the Atlantic. Milton …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 16th Oct 2022 Closing Soon
£17
Royal Academy of Arts, Picadilly

In the Air

In the Air explores our relationship with the air around us. Moving freely across borders and through bodies, air is both vital to our existence and a threat to our health. The exhibition explores the relationship between the air and …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 16th Oct 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Wellcome Collection, Camden

Extended Commentary

A collective exhibition featuring the work of six Maltese and international artists, each selected and invited to contribute work in any medium or format in reaction to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination on October 16 2017. The exhibition articulates the varied …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 16th Oct 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Southwark

The Art of Movement, Van Cleef & Arpels

Through High Jewellery creations, archive documents and lender masterpieces, this exhibition draws visitors into a world of creativity and craftsmanship dedicated to movement. Van Cleef & Arpels has constantly blended the excellence of its High Jewellery savoir-faire with great delicacy …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 20th Oct 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Design Museum, Kensington

Chimps Are Family

This outdoor exhibition featured 28 chimps dotted around the South Bank demonstrating 18 different behaviours such as love, grief, and tool use, illustrating the vast similarities between us and the animals with which we share 98% of our DNA. Well-known …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 21st Oct 2022 Closing Soon
Free

See a (huge) flag from the Battle of Trafalgar

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a flag from the Battle of Trafalgar on display at the National Maritime Museum. Measuring almost 10 metres high and 14.5 metres wide, the ‘naval ensign’ is one of the largest objects in the Museum’s …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 21st Oct 2022 Closing Soon
Free
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Shattered glass of Beirut

On the evening of 4 August 2020, a massive stockpile of ammonium nitrate exploded at the port of Beirut. The blast killed at least 218 people, injured 7,000 and displaced 300,000 as well as causing $15bn of damage. The immediate …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 23rd Oct 2022 Closing Soon
Free
British Museum, Russell Square

Between the Sheets: Turner's Nudes

Encounter a little known and rarely seen side of Britain’s greatest artist. Loved as the master of landscapes and seascapes such as The Fighting Temeraire, Hannibal Crossing the Alps and Norham Castle, few know that Turner’s sketchbooks also contain depictions …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 30th Oct 2022 Closing Soon
£10
Twickenham

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