A list of free exhibitions in London open now, and opening in London soon.
Displayed by how soon they close.
Exhibitions open now
Over 400 objects from Tiffany’s archives go on display at the Saatchi Gallery.
Open from Fri 10th Jun to Fri 19th Aug
Ends this month
A display of infographics illustrating 19th-century news themes
Open from Wed 11th May to Sun 21st Aug
Ends this month
The name Bruce Gilden is synonymous with striking images - his unique and confrontational style has made him a stand-out Icon in the pantheon of legendary American street photographers.
Open from Mon 13th Jun to Sun 28th Aug
Ends this month
In this exhibition, learn more about printmaking in Rudolf's court in Prague during the highpoint of innovative and ambitious prints made from around 1580 until the early years of the 17th century.
Open from Thu 17th Mar to Sun 28th Aug
Ends this month
Explore the 100-year history of the prestigious Royal Academy of Dance.
Open from Thu 17th Mar to Sun 28th Aug
Ends this month
The exhibition considers what we might learn from plant behaviour, and the impacts of colonial expeditions on the exploitation of natural resources and indigenous knowledges.
Open from Thu 24th Mar to Sun 28th Aug
Ends this month
These portraits offer a glimpse of life in Ukraine before the war with Russia began in 2022.
Open from Tue 19th Jul to Mon 29th Aug
Ends this month
Everyone is invited to transform a completely white domestic apartment into a sea of colourful dots
Open from Sat 23rd Jul to Mon 29th Aug
Ends this month
This exhibition highlights the sporting, economic and wellbeing opportunities generated by the Games, the journey of the Paralympics movement and the remarkable changes to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Open from Wed 13th Apr to Wed 31st Aug
Ends this month
The exhibition explores women international thinkers and their work at a fundamental moment in the imagining of international relations.
Open from Thu 5th May to Fri 2nd Sep
Step onto the island of Inujima in this exhibition which explores how an extraordinary living art project has transformed the island’s landscape and lives of its inhabitants.
Open from Sat 21st May to Sun 4th Sep
Celebrate the work of designer Bethany Williams with this new exhibition embracing the discussion of social and environmental issues.
Open from Mon 16th May to Sun 4th Sep
This intriguing new display highlights over 50 works engraved on wood by the Brothers Dalziel firm, illustrating literary and commercial work published throughout the Victorian period.
Open from Tue 17th May to Sun 4th Sep
Discover how design can support an ageing population – and indeed our own future selves – to meet their needs, interests and aspirations with greater agency and joy.
Open from Wed 20th Jul to Sun 11th Sep
An exhibition exploring ideas around repair, care and healing.
Open from Thu 16th Jun to Sun 18th Sep
Life in a cup presents a fascinating beverage story and explores the traditions that make coffee a way of life in parts of the Islamic world.
Open from Wed 27th Oct 2021 to Sun 18th Sep
Find out more about Epping Forest’s grazing history, how the ‘cow saved the Forest’ in 1874 and grazing management today.
Open from Fri 13th May to Sun 18th Sep
The Hiroshima panels have been brought to this country by Artists for Peace.
Open from Wed 20th Jul to Mon 19th Sep
The exhibition charts in items of all kinds the rise of British Blues music from its US and African roots in the 20th Century through to artists performing today.
Open from Thu 26th May to Mon 19th Sep
Korean artist JeeYoung Lee has created an environment inspired by memories, dreams, emotions, and her personal experience.
Open from Thu 23rd Jun to Sun 25th Sep
This exhibition outlines the milestones in the research and treatment of diabetes before the discovery of insulin.
Open from Wed 6th Jul to Fri 30th Sep
Jyll Bradley’s new interactive commission links the urban landscape of the Southbank Centre to the hop gardens of Kent.
Open from Wed 18th May to Sun 2nd Oct
For the first time, Picasso’s ‘Woman with a Book’ (1932) from the Norton Simon Museum, California, will be brought together with the painting that inspired it, ‘Madame Moitessier’ by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Open from Sun 26th Jun to Sun 9th Oct
In the Air explores our relationship with the air around us. Moving freely across borders and through bodies, air is both vital to our existence and a threat to our health.
Open from Thu 19th May to Sun 16th Oct
This outdoor exhibition featured 28 chimps dotted around the South Bank.
Open from Fri 20th May to Fri 21st Oct
An exhibition exploring the Elstree Extension through the Northern Heights that was suspended during World War 2, and never restarted.
Open from Tue 25th Jan to Sat 22nd Oct
A display of photographs capturing factories and their workers in an era of rapid transition.
Open from Tue 22nd Mar to Sun 6th Nov
In this exhibition, you will be introduced to the people who lived at Hogarth’s House, their relatives, friends and neighbours.
Open from Tue 12th Jul to Sun 6th Nov
This exhibition comprised a unique collection of medical satire prints from the mid-18th century to the 1980s.
Open from Tue 3rd May to Fri 2nd Dec
An immersive exhibition exploring the latest cancer research taking place at the Crick - Europe’s largest biomedical research institute under one roof.
Open from Fri 10th Sep 2021 to Sat 3rd Dec
A display honouring the music, people and places central to the grime scene and its roots in East London.
Open from Fri 17th Jun to Sun 4th Dec
A display celebrating one of the city's most iconic sporting heroes, both on and off the pitch.
Open from Sat 21st May to Fri 23rd Dec
This world-first, object-rich exhibition reveals the past, present and future of how cancer is prevented, detected and treated.
Open from Wed 25th May to Sat 31st Dec
Spanning centuries, the unexpected treasures on display in the Art Deco library include hand-drawn illustrations, curious texts and beguiling bindings.
Open from Mon 14th Feb to Sat 31st Dec
New research into IWM’s photography archive demonstrates just how keenly The Queen’s role as monarch has been shaped by her wartime experiences.
Open from Fri 27th May to Sun 8th Jan 2023
This exhibition uses the unique collections of Tower Hamlets Archives as a lens through which to explore the borough’s history of producing food.
Open from Fri 5th Aug to Fri 3rd Feb 2023
An installation of six large-scale clay columns inspired by traditional architectural practices in Chile, by Swedish-Chilean artist Anton Alvarez
Open from Mon 7th Mar to Tue 28th Feb 2023
This exhibition explores the history of transatlantic slavery through its connections with the Bank of England and the wider City of London.
Open from Wed 11th May to Fri 28th Apr 2023
This exhibition follows the lives of British soldiers in Germany over the past 75 years.
Open from Sun 22nd May to Wed 21st Aug 2024
Exhibitions opening soon
View the newly-opened renovated building, permanent exhibition exploring the history of Epsom's 20th century psychiatric hospital cluster.
Open from Fri 9th Sep to Sat 17th Sep
Straddling art, history, and fiction, the Museum of Sex Objects presents its collection of storytelling objects, curious artefacts and fragments of sexual pasts
Open from Sat 3rd Sep to Thu 29th Sep
A collection of photographs documenting the self-portraiture of one woman’s penchant for deep-sea submersion via the burgeoning world of rubber fetishism
Open from Sat 29th Oct to Thu 17th Nov
‘Discover Manet and Eva Gonzalès’ is the first in a series of exhibitions that look at a single painting from fresh and unexpected perspectives.
Open from Fri 21st Oct to Sun 15th Jan 2023
For the first time in a century, two ground-breaking paintings by Turner are coming home for a special exhibition.
Open from Thu 3rd Nov to Sun 19th Feb 2023
The UK’s first exhibition to explore what video games can tell us about conflict.
Open from Fri 30th Sep to Sun 28th May 2023
This exhibition looks again at one of the best-known faces in the National Gallery: Quinten Massys’s 16th-century depiction of an old woman, a painting known as ‘The Ugly Duchess’.
Open from Thu 16th Mar 2023 to Sun 11th Jun 2023
Come face-to-face with one of history’s most inspirational and revered figures in the first major UK art exhibition to explore Saint Francis of Assisi’s life and legacy.
Open from Sat 6th May 2023 to Sun 30th Jul 2023
This exhibition explores the relationship of Rego’s work titled Crivelli’s Garden to the 15th-century altarpiece that inspired it.
Open from Thu 20th Jul 2023 to Sun 29th Oct 2023
