What's on in London on Monday 6th May 2024

Top events happening London

Festival of Steam

All 5 locomotives are expected to be in action with an intensive service operating, including trains into the evening on Saturday. Tickets cover the whole day and as many rides as you want. STAR GUEST LOCOMOTIVE, London Midland and Scottish …

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Start time to be confirmed
£28.50
North Weald

IWA Canalway Cavalcade 2024

IWA Canalway Cavalcade returns to London’s Little Venice to celebrate the best of life on the waterways in London and its community. It’s one of the largest waterways festivals in the country and an important tradition in the local community. …

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10:00am to 5:00pm
Free
Maida Vale

So Last Century's Vintage Market at the Mansion

So Last Century is back are back at Beckenham Place Park on Bank Holiday Monday 6th May, with another Vintage Market at the Mansion, featuring a collection of fifty vintage dealers at an unrestored Georgian building. Many traders are local, …

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10:00am to 5:00pm
Free
Beckenham

2024 Steam Gala

The Ruislip Lido Railway will have a Bank Holiday steam gala, with a service every 15 minutes using 3 trains in operation throughout the weekend. Adults are £4 per return trip. (other fares listed on their website) John Rennie and …

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11:00am to 5:00pm
£4
Ruislip

Gun salutes in Green Park and Tower of London

Two sets of military gun salutes will take place today to mark the anniversary of the King’s Coronation. The first will take place in Green Park (41 rounds). Gun salutes in the Royal Parks usually take place at Noon but …

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12:00pm to 2:00pm
Free

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Sony World Photography Awards 2024 Exhibition

The Sony World Photography Awards exhibition returns to Somerset House this April, bringing extraordinary images – from luscious landscapes to impressive architecture, striking street shots to moving documentary projects – to an iconic location. The various presentations will showcase photographs …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 6th May 2024 Closing Soon
£15
Strand

BURTYNSKY: Extraction / Abstraction

This exhibition marks the largest exhibition ever mounted in the 40+ year career of world-renowned photographic artist, Edward Burtynsky, who has dedicated his practice to bearing witness to the impact of human industry on the planet. Curated by Marc Mayer, …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 6th May 2024 Closing Soon
£18
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea

Fowl Play

Young Margate-based painter Jack Hirons uses an unusual medium. All the pigment in his debut London solo show comes from the charred and crushed bones of fried chicken, bought on a matchday on Tottenham High Road from the legendary Chick-King …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 11th May 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Tottenham

Albert Oehlen - New Paintings

Gagosian presents an exhibition of new paintings by Albert Oehlen. For his first show at the gallery in London since 2016, Oehlen continues to explore the rich possibilities and the future of painting. He riffs on fragments, forms, and entire …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 11th May 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Mayfair

Terry Frost

The late Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003) became a pioneering figure within the St Ives group of British modernists, with a career spanning over six decades. This survey presents an extensive collection of Frost’s most compelling paintings from 1966-2003. Frost’s unique …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 11th May 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Mayfair

Alison Lapper: Lost in Parys

Bethlem Museum of the Mind showcases Alison Lapper’s (b.1965) work that explores her journey of grief since the untimely death of her son Parys. Alison Lapper: Lost in Parys will present a range of new work that delves into a …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 11th May 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham

Marriner 100

15th April 2024 will mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Neville Marriner (1924-2016), the world-famous classical musician who enjoyed a long and illustrious career with his own orchestra – the Academy of St Martin in the Fields – …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 12th May 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Trafalgar Square

The Art of the Brick - LEGO Art

The Art of the Brick is the best-known LEGO art exhibition in the world. After touring several cities and entering CNN’s list of "Must-See" exhibitions, it is back in London. Critically acclaimed, the collection features works by artist Nathan Sawaya …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 12th May 2024 Closing Soon
£17.90
Whitechapel

Injecting Hope: The race for a COVID-19 vaccine

How do you develop a vaccine quickly and effectively to combat a global pandemic? Our new free exhibition explores the worldwide effort to develop vaccines at pandemic speed. See how scientists and researchers adapted to the various challenges of this …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 12th May 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Science Museum, South Kensington

Display - Reuse, Refill, Rethink

This exhibition showcases a variety of products and demonstrate the difference between refillable, returnable (prefill) and repurposed product packaging of the past, present, and future. It explores how current developments in packaging have historical significance and how we might learn …

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Exhibition ends on Wednesday 15th May 2024 Closing Soon
£9
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising, Notting Hill

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