What's on in London on Friday 3rd February 2023

Top events happening London

Civil Defence Communities in Second World War Britain

Join Dr Jessica Hammett as she discusses the role of civil defence services during the Second World War and asks how volunteers engaged with wartime ideas about national identity and citizenship. During the Second World War, millions of men and …

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12:00pm to 1:00pm
Free
National Army Museum, Chelsea

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Feeding the Hamlets: Exploring the history of food production in the East End

This exhibition uses the unique collections of Tower Hamlets Archives as a lens through which to explore the borough’s history of producing food. For centuries, the East End’s landscape and social and economic history have been influenced by the growing, …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 4th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Whitechapel

Museum of the Moon

Following the phenomenal sold-out installation of Gaia in the Painted Hall in 2021, artist Luke Jerram returns to the Old Royal Naval College with his incredible artwork Museum of the Moon. Set in the magnificent Painted Hall, the awe-inspiring large-scale display features minute …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£12.50
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

The Ward Revisited

The Ward – Revisited marks 30 years since Gideon Mendel photographed John, Andre, Steven and Ian in the AIDS wards at the Middlesex Hospital. The new video installation both utilises and deconstructs those original images which were the focus of …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Fitzrovia Chapel, Tottenham Court Road

Woven Cities: The unveiling of London's Woven Crest

Visit the Woven Cities display to see the brand-new London Woven Crest alongside the crests from Amsterdam and Rome. We have partnered with 75B who design the large woven ‘City Crests’, to celebrate London, the people who occupy it, and …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£9
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising, Notting Hill

Beyond Visible - Solo show by Gao Xintong

Gao Xintong’s research draws inspiration from the art of great Western masters including Picasso and Boccioni, to name but a few, and the centuries-old practice of Shan-Shui 山水 – traditional Chinese landscape painting. As a young artist from China currently …

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Exhibition ends on Wednesday 8th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Picadilly

DRÔLE: An Exhibition of Rare Clown Costume & Ephemera

Time to rein in the clowns! They’ve unearthed some of the rare costumes and ephemera collection, safely guarded by The Clowns Gallery for Clowns International, the organisation behind the Grimaldi Church Service, as well as Herbert Migdoll’s photography of The …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 11th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Horse Hospital, Clerkenwell

'A Sense of Wonder': The Curious Robot World of Matt Dixon

Discover a magical and playful world inhabited by a series of rusty robots at Pitzhanger this autumn. Within utopian and dystopian landscapes, encounter the robots as they experience the best of human emotions: wonder, kindness, empathy, friendship, and love. Experience …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 12th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£12
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Ealing

In Plain Sight

‘In Plain Sight’ is a major new exhibition exploring the different ways we see and are seen by others. It questions the central place that sight holds in human society through the different experiences of sighted, partially sighted and blind …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 12th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Wellcome Collection, Camden

Making Modernism

Making Modernism is the first major UK exhibition devoted to pioneering women working in Germany in the early 1900s: Paula Modersohn-Becker, KÓ“the Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin. Celebrated in their native homelands, this exhibition will introduce their innovative paintings …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 12th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£19
Royal Academy of Arts, Picadilly

Tiny Traces: African & Asian Children at London's Foundling Hospital

Explore newly uncovered stories of African and Asian children in the care of the eighteenth-century Foundling Hospital. Tiny Traces presents a rich history of London life from 1739-1820, a key period in Britain’s colonial past. Follow the stories of more …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 19th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£10.50
Foundling Museum, Clerkenwell

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