What's on in London on Sunday 1st January 2023

Top events happening London

New Year's Day parade

Following two years of curbs from Covid restrictions the annual turn-of-year tradition is returning to the streets of London in all its glory. More than 8,000 performers, representing 20 nations, will fill the West End with culture, colour, entertainment, and music. …

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Starts at 11:00am
Free

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Sorting Britain: The Power of Postcodes

From wartime tech pioneers to Poco the Postcode Elephant, uncover the surprising story of the postcode. Sorting Britain delves into the Post Office innovation that revolutionised how post was processed, sorted, and delivered and its unintended outcomes for life in …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 1st Jan 2023 Closing Soon
£16
The Postal Museum, Farringdon

The Gingerbread City

This year’s exhibition presents not just one edible city but five miniature cities across five different climate zones: Polar, Continental, Temperate, Dry and Tropical. This year, the Museum of Architecture is taking a global perspective and has challenged participating architects …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 2nd Jan 2023 Closing Soon
£15.38
Belgravia

Charles Jennens: Patron & Polymath

This display brings together items reflecting the varied interests and achievements of the polymath Charles Jennens. Charles Jennens is best known as the librettist of Handel’s Messiah, but he had a range of intellectual interests. This display brings together portraits, …

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Exhibition ends on Tuesday 3rd Jan 2023 Closing Soon
£10.50
Foundling Museum, Clerkenwell

Toys, Tech and Tamagotchis: Christmas Bestsellers of the 20th Century

The display shows the most exciting new toys to come to the market throughout the 20th Century – those at the top of every child’s Christmas list. It also comments on returning trends and popularities such as the Furby, Barbie, …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 6th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
£9
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising, Notting Hill

Fred Tschida: Sphere

Fred Tschida’s spinning, glowing work is recreated at a technically ambitious scale. In this work, two six and a half-metre tall rings of brilliant gas-filled tube rotate to produce the illusion, when photographed, of a giant glowing orb.

Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Southbank Centre, Southwark

Winter Past

The museum’s Rooms Through Time, restyled to reveal how winter has changed London homes through the last 400 years. This year, the Museum’s curators are also excited to unveil two brand new stories for the festival: a family warming up …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
Free
The Museum of the Home, Bethnal Green

Winslow Homer: Force of Nature

For the first time in the UK, we present an overview of Winslow Homer (1836-1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
£12
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square

Neighbours in Space and Time: Grafton Architects at the Soane Museum

Sir John Soane’s Museum is delighted to be collaborating with Grafton Architects on an exhibition that explores the relationship between two of the principal buildings on Lincoln’s Inn Fields: Grafton’s Marshall Building for the London School of Economics and Political …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Sir John Soane's Museum, Holborn

Jakob Kvist: Dichroic Sphere

A geodesic dome with a single energy-efficient light bulb at its centre casts multicoloured light in every direction. Dichroic Sphere is a light sculpture by Danish light artist and designer Jakob Kvist. It consists of an aluminium geodesic dome structure, …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Southbank Centre, Southwark

Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism

One of the most original and eccentric artists of the 18th century, Henry Fuseli, is the subject of a new exhibition at The Courtauld. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Fuseli spent a formative period in Rome in the 1770s before settling …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
£13
Courtauld Institute of Art, Strand

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