Welcome to the IanVisits alternative guide to London.
Lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random geeky miscellany.
This is quite an old listings page, did you want: Tuesday, 20th February 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
Free
Images of Nature
A display of botanical and zoological watercolours by natural history artists Franz and Ferdinand Bauer. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Feb)
Natural History Museum
An opportunity to discover the work of 13 ceramicists in an exhibition spanning over 80 years of ceramic art. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Feb)
Jewish Museum London
How have the finished and unfinished revolutions of the late 1960s changed the way we live today and think about the future? (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Feb)
This exhibition will look at the Bank of England's past, and explore the history of a medium that has come to dominate the world around us. (Ending Soon Tue, 28th Feb)
Bank of England Museum
This exhibition highlights the development of public health nursing and the roles nurses have played in improving public health. (Ending Soon Tue, 28th Feb)
Royal College of Nursing Library and Heritage Cent
An exhibition showing how maps changed how we look at the world, from Beck's tube map to spy maps. (Ending Soon Wed, 1st Mar)
A major exhibition celebrating the master hairstylist’s remarkable 40 year career, from the late 1970s to the current day. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Mar)
Somerset House
Discover the evolution of underwear design from the 18th-century to the present day. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Mar)
Isabelle Émilie de Tessier was a London actress, cartoonist and illustrator who worked under the pseudonym 'Marie Duval'. This exhibition at Guildhall Library is the first one dedicated solely to Duval's work as a nineteenth century pioneer of the art of comics. (Ending Soon Fri, 17th Mar)
Guildhall Library
This exhibition explores Impressionism in an Australian context – closely related to yet entirely distinct from its European counterparts. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Mar)
National Gallery
See the shortlisted proposals for Trafalgar Square's 2018 and 2020 Fourth Plinth commissions (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Mar)
National Gallery
Free
Londinium AD 43
Photographer Eugenio Grosso takes you on a photographic journey through time from the foundation of London to the present. (Ending Soon Fri, 31st Mar)
Guildhall Library
See the world's longest Lego bridge, and a display about other bridges (Ending Soon Fri, 31st Mar)
Institution of Civil Engineers
This exhibition sees Leighton’s most famous and celebrated work, Flaming June, return to the artist's house from Puerto Rico. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Apr)
Leighton House Museum
From ceramics and sculpture, find out more about Ovid’s magical stories and their influence in the display and gallery trail. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Apr)
Wallace Collection
An exhibition that marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act which legalised homosexuality in the UK. (Ending Soon Fri, 7th Apr)
LSE Library
The Library and Museum’s latest exhibition marks the centenary of the opening of the Royal Masonic Hospital. (Ending Soon Fri, 7th Apr)
The Library and Museum of Freemasonry
An exhibition about the woman in Admiral Horatio Nelson's life - Emma Hamilton. (Ending Soon Mon, 17th Apr)
£0
Fire! Fire!
An exhibition marking the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of 1666. (Ending Soon Mon, 17th Apr)
The first exhibition to focus on images of artists from within the Royal Collection. (Ending Soon Mon, 17th Apr)
This exhibition explores one of the most momentous periods in modern world history through the lens of its groundbreaking art. (Ending Soon Mon, 17th Apr)
Royal Academy of Arts
£16.75
Adventures in Moominland
Explore the Moomins through the life of its author Tove Jansson (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)
Southbank Centre
An exhibition of board games from modern classics to 18th century historical games. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)
V&A Museum of Childhood
An immersive multi-channel video installation, created by conceptual documentary photographer and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)
Barbican Centre
This exhibition examines why radical artists and writers were drawn to the hills, seaside and villages of Sussex in the first half of the 20th century. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Apr)
Two Temple Place
Explore Chamberlin, Powell and Bon's endeavour to combine spaciousness with high density development. (Ending Soon Wed, 26th Apr)
Barbican Centre
The Poster Parade looks at some of the classic designs that have gone on to provide inspiration for a new generation of artists. (Ending Soon Thu, 27th Apr)
London Transport Museum
Free
The William Charter
A chance to see the tiny charter document given by William the Conqueror to the City. (Ending Soon Thu, 27th Apr)
Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
Free
Larkinworld
Discover new perspectives in the poetry of Philip Larkin. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Apr)
Southbank Centre
The appeal of mutton chops, goatees and the most flamboyant of moustaches with a photographic exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Apr)
Florence Nightingale Museum
Ethical taxidermist Jazmine Miles-Long challenges ideas and perceptions of this art and craft. (Ending Soon Mon, 1st May)
Horniman Museum
This exhibition shows off coins and other objects that were defaced, usually to condemn the memory of deceased Roman Emperors. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th May)
The British Museum
This exhibition explores the way artists and photographers responded to the bombing of London during WW2. (Ending Soon Mon, 8th May)
Museum of London
See Cagnacci’s masterpiece, on view in the UK for the first time in over thirty years (Ending Soon Sun, 21st May)
National Gallery
Sir Quentin Blake has drawn special portraits of some of the most celebrated characters from Dahl’s stories. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st May)
British Library
£19.50
David Hockney
One of the most popular and influential British artists of the twentieth century returns to Tate Britain for his most comprehensive exhibition yet. (Ending Soon Mon, 29th May)
Tate Britain
The biggest international competition of its kind, annually showcasing spectacular images shot by astrophotographers worldwide. (Ending Soon Sun, 25th Jun)
Free
The Price of a Mile
A display about the work of doctors who gave anaesthesia and pain relief to the wounded during the Battle of the Somme (Ending Soon Fri, 30th Jun)
Anaesthesia Heritage Centre
Collector of rarities, debunker of myths, inspiration to writers and doctors alike, conjuror of words, owner of a live ostrich and expert witness at a witch trial. (Ending Soon Thu, 27th Jul)
Royal College of Physicians Museum
Discover the remarkable 500- year story of humanoid robots (Ending Soon Sat, 19th Aug)
Science Museum
The most complete range of archaeological objects unearthed by Crossrail has gone on display. (Ending Soon Mon, 21st Aug)
Museum of London Docklands
This exhibition brings together several series of work by artist-photographer Edmund Clark to explore the hidden experiences of state control during the 'Global War on Terror'. (Ending Soon Wed, 23rd Aug)
Imperial War Museum
Free
Our Lives in Data
This exhibition investigates the rapidly evolving role of big data in all our lives and how it is being used to transform the world around us. (Ending Soon Fri, 1st Sep)
A substantial exhibition featuring around 200 original costumes, props, models, and pieces of artwork. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)
O2 Arena / Millennium Dome
An exhibition of animals that have been recreated using a variety of familiar machine parts and gadgets to reveal how their real life counterparts see, eat, hunt and hide. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Oct)
Horniman Museum
This exhibition remembers the centenary of this battle and the massive medical and human impact of the wounds sustained during and beyond WW1. (Ending Soon Mon, 15th Jan)
Science Museum
