What's on in London on Thursday 21st December 2023

Top events happening London

Museum Late: The Christmas special

Deck the halls and get into the Christmas spirit with the Bank of England Museum with a free evening event including banknote baubles, Christmas music, and festive refreshments. Special event: Looking for a unique way to decorate your tree, or …

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5:00pm to 8:00pm
Free
Bank of England Museum, City of London

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Inventing the Future

This exhibition celebrates the Tercentenary of the Constitutions of the Freemasons. This book, now almost forgotten by non-freemasons, had a remarkable and unexpected impact. ‘Inventing the Future’ has two parts. In the library you can see how the Constitutions of …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 21st Dec 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Museum of Freemasonry, Aldwych

Hidden in Plain Sight: Liberating our Library Collections

“Hidden in Plain Sight” is UCL Library Services’ free public exhibition highlighting underrepresented voices in our historic and modern library collections. Across UCL Library Services, staff members, students, and volunteers have been working together to discover, record, and celebrate the …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 21st Dec 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Euston

Sergio Lombardo

An exhibition of works by Italian artist Sergio Lombardo (b.1939, Rome). Active since the late 1950s, Lombardo was a key member of Italy’s post-war avant-garde and Scuola di Piazza del Popolo (Piazza del Popolo School), a group of artists based …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 22nd Dec 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Mayfair

Wanderlust: Travel Japan through Vintage Posters

One year following the pandemic, tourism in Japan is nearly back at its peak. Through vintage tourism posters, this exhibition offers a glimpse into a past that resonates with the present. The posters encapsulate the allure of a nation poised …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 28th Dec 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Picadilly

It All Starts With a Thread

Explore thread as a method and metaphor for connection, collaboration and conversation in this exhibition by ten students on the MA degree in Curating Art and Public Programmes jointly run by Whitechapel Gallery and London South Bank University. In the …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 31st Dec 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Whitechapel

Treasures of Gold and Silver Wire

A piece of the only surviving dress worn by Queen Elizabeth I, Charles Dickens’ court suit, an RSC robe worn by David Tennant as Richard II, and the Coronation glove of Queen Elizabeth II are among the highlights of this …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 31st Dec 2023 Closing Soon
£10
Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater, City of London

Ben Edge's British Folk Paintings

For nearly a decade Ben Edge has been documenting the seasonal folk Customs of Britain, travelling by bus, train and foot to the far corners of these Isles, to capture our often overlooked, unknown and unsung but thriving Folk culture …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 31st Dec 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Hackney

Art Now: Rhea Dillon: An Alterable Terrain

Tate Britain presents a new free exhibition of sculptural works by Rhea Dillon. Titled An Alterable Terrain, the exhibition brings together a group of new and existing sculptures to explore Black women’s labour across histories and geographies. This will be …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 1st Jan 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Tate Britain, Pimlico

Tim Lewis - The Forest Visits

In this exhibition of new zoomorphic works by Tim Lewis, a series of kinetic sculptures, made from repurposed found objects and materials, are reconfigured to suggest uncanny encounters between organic matter and industrial processes. The title The Forest Visits refers …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 6th Jan 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Mayfair

Injecting Hope: The race for a COVID-19 vaccine

This exhibition explores the worldwide effort to develop vaccines at pandemic speed. See how scientists and researchers adapted to the various challenges of this massive programme. Through an incredible variety of artworks, interactives, and personal objects, this exhibition will make …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 7th Jan 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Science Museum, South Kensington

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