What's on in London on Friday 12th April 2024

Top events happening London

Science of Surgery

You are warmly invited to come and join in the fun (and learning) at the Wellcome / EPSRC Centre For Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS). The event takes place during the Easter school holidays on Friday 12th April and runs from 11am until 4pm. At the …

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11:00am to 4:00pm
Free
Fitzrovia

Tourism, Collecting and Foreign Encounters in Egypt

Dr Simon Quinn reveals how soldiers serving during the Egyptian Campaign of 1801 experienced their new surroundings and made use of their free time. The Napoleonic era has long been regarded as a seminal period in world history. Less well …

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

This City is Made for Music

A film of a musical journey within the Square Mile, linking architecture and music. Circling around the heart of the Roman City [The Barbican fort] and the Saxon town [the Foundation Chapel of St Paul’s Cathedral] up to the present …

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6:30pm to 8:30pm
£22.38
Clerkenwell

Marks of deception: tackling fakes & forgeries in antique British silver

Hallmarking is one of the world’s oldest forms of consumer protection – a guarantee to those buying and selling items made of precious metals that they have been expertly tested, and that the marks they bear truthfully reveal their composition …

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8:00pm to 9:00pm
£25
City of London

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Ramadan Lights in the West End

Not unlike Christmas lights, there will be Ramadan Lights above Coventry Street next to Leicester Square for a few weeks. The best spot to get photos is at either end of the street, and a pedestrian crossing has become a …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 12th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Soho

Sisters

Sisters celebrates the contributions of female and non-binary artists within the creative community. Six artists have been selected to explore and initiate dialogue that inspire change and encourage self-expression, female resilience and strength. Artists on display include: Liga Lomane, Lorette …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 12th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Wapping

Holbein at the Tudor Court

This exhibition brings together over 100 works from Henry VIII’s court, including drawings, paintings and miniatures by Hans Holbein the Younger drawn from the Royal Collection, one of the most important surviving groups of the artist’s work. Together, they will …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 13th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
£19
The King's Gallery, Whitehall

El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon

El Anatsui’s Behind the Red Moon is a monumental sculptural installation made of thousands of metal bottle tops and fragments. Crumpling, crushing, and stitching them into different compositions, large panels are pieced together to form massive abstract fields of colour, …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Tate Modern, Southwark

30 Years of The Wrong Trousers

Released in 1993, The Wrong Trousers introduced icons Wallace & Gromit to the dangerous foe Feathers McGraw, a villainous penguin with ambitions to put Wallace’s ingenious inventions to criminal use. The film won an Academy Award; becoming part of a …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
£9.50
Cartoon Museum, New Oxford Street

Cute

A major new exhibition exploring the irresistible force of cuteness in contemporary culture. From emojis to internet memes, video games to plushie toys, food to loveable robotic design, cuteness has taken over our world. But how has something so charming …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
£18.50
Somerset House, Strand

Derwent Art Prize 2024

The Derwent Art Prize invites artists around the world to enter the very best artworks created in pencil. Selected from thousands of entries by a jury of esteemed artists and curators, the exhibition showcases the best in pencil art today. …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Southwark

Spies, Lies and Deception

Discover over 100 years of intrigue, deceit and real-life secret agents. Spies, Lies and Deception is a free exhibition at IWM London about deception and espionage from the First World War to the present day. Explore how audacious plots of …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Imperial War Museum, Southwark

Songs of Lamentation

A site-specific art installation by Bea Denton at The Summer House, Charlton House & Gardens. Artist Bea Denton explores ritual and remembrance, death and loss in this first-of-a-kind art exhibition in the Summer House at Charlton House, Royal Borough of …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Charlton

Delight

A multimedia exhibition that combines visuals, sound, and augmented reality to animate the cultural heritage and spirit of South Korea’s Seoul. First staged in Seoul, the exhibition will be shown in the historic tunnels of Borough Yards, inviting visitors on …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
£27.40
Southwark

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