What's on in London on Friday 8th September 2023

Top events happening London

Open day at Prince Henry's Room

Prince Henry’s Room is located at 17 Fleet Street, one of the few buildings in the city that survived the 1666 London Great Fire. The room, on the first floor contains one of the best-preserved Jacobian-enriched plaster ceilings in London. …

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9:00am to 5:00pm
Free
City of London

The Battle of Villers-Bocage

Daniel Taylor examines the debates surrounding the battle for the Normandy town of Villers-Bocage during the Second World War. The Battle of Villers-Bocage remains lodged in the imagination of many as a costly and controversial defeat for the British Army …

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

Black holes and quantum computers

Black holes are believed to be the most efficient quantum computers naturally existing in our Universe. Standard computers do not have the capabilities to quickly solve some of the problems and unanswered questions facing researchers, but black holes may be …

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7:00pm to 8:30pm
£17.03
Mayfair

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

For a Better Understanding of Life

Revolution and reform go hand in glove with posters and slogans. But just how does one promote the coming of a new era or ‘New Jerusalem’ as Swedenborg coined it? Spanning a period of just over 100 years —from the …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 8th Sep 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Bloomsbury

The Cold Wind and the Warm

Best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate both aspects of the human body and elements of nature, Klara Kristalova presents her new body of work in the artist’s first solo exhibition in London. Across her oeuvre, Klara Kristalova …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 9th Sep 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Cromwell Place, South Kensington

Andy Warhol: The Textiles

An exhibition exploring the beautiful and fascinating textile designs by the influential pop artist and icon Andy Warhol. Discover the unknown and virtually unrecorded world of textile designs by the influential pop artist and icon Andy Warhol. Dating from his …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 9th Sep 2023 Closing Soon
£12.65
Fashion and Textile Museum, Southwark

A story of Salt and Sugar

This two-day exhibition will include a variety of sugar and salt sculptures, salt sketches and salt animations all created by an array of well-known artists including: Gala Bell – a multidisciplinary artist who specialises in the alchemy of matter and …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 9th Sep 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Southwark

Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism

The first major UK exhibition of the trailblazing Impressionist since 1950. In partnership with the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, the exhibition brings together around 30 of Morisot’s masterpieces from international collections to reveal the artist as a trailblazer of the …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 10th Sep 2023 Closing Soon
£16.50
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich

Jean Cooke: Ungardening

The first exhibition focusing on the magnificent garden paintings of Jean Esme Oregon Cooke RA (1927-2008). The exhibition will explore Cooke’s paintings of her gardens: a wild, overgrown city plot in Blackheath, London and a clifftop meadow at her coastal …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 10th Sep 2023 Closing Soon
£14
The Garden Museum, Southwark

Visions in Porcelain: A Rake's Progress

An acclaimed artist working with ceramics, Bouke de Vries’ latest work will respond to William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress, and be displayed in the Museum’s Foyle Space. Inspired by Hogarth’s series of original paintings at the Soane Museum, de Vries …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 10th Sep 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Sir John Soane's Museum, Holborn

New acquisitions Paul Bril to Wendy Red Star

Discover more than 100 works of art from the 16th century to the present from Europe, North America and Australasia. New acquisitions: Paul Bril to Wendy Red Star showcases prints and drawings acquired by the Museum over the past five …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 10th Sep 2023 Closing Soon
Free
British Museum, Russell Square

Milk

This exhibition explores our relationship with milk and its place in politics, society and culture. It considers how milk has come to be seen as so central to perceptions of nutrition and “good health” in the UK. The choices we …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 10th Sep 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Wellcome Collection, Camden

Anthony Caro: The Inspiration of Architecture

This new exhibition develops a fertile dialogue between Caro’s sculpture and the unique character of Soane’s building. Anthony Caro (1924-2013), widely regarded as one of the 20th century’s most influential sculptors, is the subject of Pitzhanger’s spring exhibition, opening on …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 10th Sep 2023 Closing Soon
£9.90
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Ealing

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