London exhibitions open on Sunday 5th February 2023

London exhibitions by date they close

Museum of the Moon

Following the phenomenal sold-out installation of Gaia in the Painted Hall in 2021, artist Luke Jerram returns to the Old Royal Naval College with his incredible artwork Museum of the Moon. Set in the magnificent Painted Hall, the awe-inspiring large-scale display features minute …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£12.50
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

The Ward Revisited

The Ward – Revisited marks 30 years since Gideon Mendel photographed John, Andre, Steven and Ian in the AIDS wards at the Middlesex Hospital. The new video installation both utilises and deconstructs those original images which were the focus of …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Fitzrovia Chapel, Tottenham Court Road

Woven Cities: The unveiling of London's Woven Crest

Visit the Woven Cities display to see the brand-new London Woven Crest alongside the crests from Amsterdam and Rome. We have partnered with 75B who design the large woven ‘City Crests’, to celebrate London, the people who occupy it, and …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£9
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising, Notting Hill

Beyond Visible - Solo show by Gao Xintong

Gao Xintong’s research draws inspiration from the art of great Western masters including Picasso and Boccioni, to name but a few, and the centuries-old practice of Shan-Shui 山水 – traditional Chinese landscape painting. As a young artist from China currently …

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Exhibition ends on Wednesday 8th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Picadilly

'A Sense of Wonder': The Curious Robot World of Matt Dixon

Discover a magical and playful world inhabited by a series of rusty robots at Pitzhanger this autumn. Within utopian and dystopian landscapes, encounter the robots as they experience the best of human emotions: wonder, kindness, empathy, friendship, and love. Experience …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 12th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£12
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Ealing

In Plain Sight

‘In Plain Sight’ is a major new exhibition exploring the different ways we see and are seen by others. It questions the central place that sight holds in human society through the different experiences of sighted, partially sighted and blind …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 12th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Wellcome Collection, Camden

Making Modernism

Making Modernism is the first major UK exhibition devoted to pioneering women working in Germany in the early 1900s: Paula Modersohn-Becker, KÓ“the Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin. Celebrated in their native homelands, this exhibition will introduce their innovative paintings …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 12th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£19
Royal Academy of Arts, Picadilly

Tiny Traces: African & Asian Children at London's Foundling Hospital

Explore newly uncovered stories of African and Asian children in the care of the eighteenth-century Foundling Hospital. Tiny Traces presents a rich history of London life from 1739-1820, a key period in Britain’s colonial past. Follow the stories of more …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 19th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£10.50
Foundling Museum, Clerkenwell

Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt

A major exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. — For centuries, life in ancient Egypt was a mystery. We could only glimpse into this hidden world, until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 19th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£20
British Museum, Russell Square

The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain

Through some of our country’s most provocative artists, this exhibition presents an alternative perspective on modern Britain. Told in three acts – Monster, Ghost and Witch – it takes audiences on a heady ride through the past 50 years of …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 19th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£16.50
Somerset House, Strand

Turner on Tour

For the first time in a century, two ground-breaking paintings by Turner are coming home for a special exhibition. The pair – ‘Harbour of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile’ and ‘Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening’ – left Britain for …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 19th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square

This is England

See portraits of the full England football squad and manager by artist Matt Small. One month before the World Cup in Qatar, This is England features the most successful national men’s team since the World Cup winners of 1966, after …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 19th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater, City of London

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 - Today

Delve into the dreamlike relationship between Surrealism and design in this century-spanning celebration of surrealist objects of desire. The exhibition covers nearly 100 years, and close to 350 objects are on display. For the first time in a major UK …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 19th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£18.50
Design Museum, Kensington

Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth

When it comes to making myths, Alexander the Great’s story has it all. He built an empire that stretched across the world. Rode across the sky on a flying chariot. And descended to the bottom of the sea in a …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 19th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£17
British Library, Camden

Art on paper since 1960 - the Hamish Parker collection

From Lucian Freud to Kiki Smith, life drawing to minimalism and etching to collage, this exhibition spans an intriguing range of styles and techniques used in art on paper from 1960 to today. Comprising over 100 prints and drawings, the …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 25th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
British Museum, Russell Square

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Fly In League With The Night

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British artist and writer acclaimed for her enigmatic portraits of fictitious people. This exhibition brings together around 70 works from 2003 to the present day in the most extensive survey of the artist’s career to date. …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 26th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£16
Tate Britain, Pimlico

Soheila Sokhanvari - Rebel Rebel

Rebel Rebel, the first major UK commission by Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari, celebrates and commemorates feminist icons from pre-revolutionary Iran. Sokhanvari transforms the Curve into a devotional space, populated with exquisite miniature portraits of glamorous cultural figures from Iran. The …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 26th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Barbican Arts Centre, Barbican

Permissible Beauty

The exhibition price is for the whole of Hampton Court Palace — An immersive installation at Hampton Court Palace brings past and present together to explore this question and to celebrate a new chapter of British Beauty for the 21st …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 26th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£25.30
Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey

Japan: Courts and Culture

The Royal Collection holds some of the most significant examples of Japanese art and design in the western world. For the first time, highlights from this outstanding collection are brought together to tell the story of 300 years of diplomatic, …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 26th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
£17
The King's Gallery, Whitehall

The Remnants by Anton Alvarez

An installation of six large-scale clay columns inspired by traditional architectural practices in Chile, by Swedish-Chilean artist Anton Alvarez. (the exhibition is in an office foyer, but open to the public) As part of the commission, Alvarez developed bespoke new …

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Exhibition ends on Tuesday 28th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
City of London

The Lost Rhino

Drawing on AI technology and rare research footage of the last northern white rhinos, this virtual rhino will be roaming in a digital world within the Museum’s Jerwood Gallery as part of a new art exhibition from artist Alexandra Daisy …

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Exhibition ends on Tuesday 28th Feb 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Natural History Museum, South Kensington

SKINT: Cost of Living Creations with W. Heath Robinson

The Cost of Living Crisis has the whole of England feeling like we’re living in a madhouse so we’re looking back to the master of wacky solutions W. Heath Robinson himself! 2022 marks 150 years since the birth of W. …

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Exhibition ends on Wednesday 1st Mar 2023 Closing Soon
£8.50
Cartoon Museum, New Oxford Street

Orchids festival 2023

Back bigger and better than ever for 2023, Kew Gardens’ much-loved Orchid festival returns to the Princess of Wales Conservatory. Taking inspiration from the beauty and biodiversity of Cameroon, Orchids 2023 is a vibrant celebration of colour to brighten up …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Mar 2023 Closing Soon
£16.50
Kew Gardens, Richmond

The Light Festival at Battersea Power Station

Eight pieces of artwork, curated in partnership with Light Art Collection, will be on display both outdoors and inside the Power Station, alongside Electric Boulevard, a new pedestrianised high street for London. The installations will be switched on from 8am …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Mar 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Battersea

To Be Read At Dusk: Dickens, Ghosts and the Supernatural

Spirits, phantoms and spectres, Dickens’s stories are full of ghostly apparitions. For over 30 years Dickens wrote, told and performed tales about the supernatural. To be Read at Dusk examines Dickens’s interest in the paranormal, his ‘hankering after ghosts’, and …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Mar 2023 Closing Soon
£13.13
Charles Dickens Museum, Clerkenwell

Leda in Soho

Love, Leda is a newly discovered, never-before-published queer novel set in and around the streets of Soho in the years before the 1967 Sexual Offences Act. Cruising Dean Street, taking coffee at Lyons, dropping by jazz clubs off Tottenham Court Road, …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 9th Mar 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Soho

Cezanne

One of the largest collections of Cezanne paintings ever assembled has arrived in London, and filled a whole series of rooms at the Tate with his signature still lifes, landscapes, and nudes. ‘With an apple, I will astonish Paris’, Cezanne …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 12th Mar 2023 Closing Soon
£22
Tate Modern, Southwark

M.K. ÄŒiurlionis: Between Worlds

M.K. ÄŒiurlionis: Between Worlds brings together over 100 works by the Lithuanian artist and celebrated composer Mikalojus Konstantinas ÄŒiurlionis (1875-1911). Widely credited as Lithuania’s greatest artist, the exhibition will feature paintings and drawings created throughout his short but prolific career, …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 12th Mar 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich

Anthony Daley: Son of Rubens

Abstract Expressionist painter Anthony Daley will present a new body of work, which explores his career-long fascination with the work of 17th century Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. Rubens was famed for his mastery of colour and texture through the …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 19th Mar 2023 Closing Soon
£16.50
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich

Heath Robinson's Shakespeare Illustrations

Amongst Heath Robinson’s early book illustrations is a set for Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, published in 1902. The quality of the illustrations is mixed. Some seem clumsy and hurried, but in the best of them his genius is beginning to …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 19th Mar 2023 Closing Soon
£6.60
Heath Robinson Museum, Pinner

Blood & Battle: Dissecting the Life of William Beatty

The life and work of renowned 19th-century naval surgeon and physician, Sir William Beatty, is explored in all its fascinating – and often grisly. The exhibition marks 200 years since Beatty took up the post of Physician to the Royal …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 25th Mar 2023 Closing Soon
£6
Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre, Greenwich

Women of the Bethnal Green at Work

As part of Oxford House’s heritage programme, we are delighted to present a brand new exhibition of portraits by photographer Sarah Ainslie. From tradeswomen, to community organisers, faith leaders, artists, and shopkeepers; this exhibition showcases and celebrates the many women who contribute to life in Bethnal …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 31st Mar 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Bethnal Green

The Ideal Book: William Morris & the Kelmscott Press

Some of the most intricate and exquisite book decorations in the history of publishing have gone on display in Hammersmith. A new exhibition about the Kelmscott Press – the 19th century designer William Morris’s printing operation. It focuses on the …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 2nd Apr 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Hammersmith

Treason: People, Power & Plot

Opening with the original Treason Act of 1352, elements of which are still on the statute books today, this exhibition explores stories as diverse as the charges brought against Anne Boleyn in 1536, the trial and execution of Charles I …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 6th Apr 2023 Closing Soon
Free
National Archives, Richmond

Spain and the Hispanic World

This landmark exhibition, with over 150 dazzling and fascinating pieces, explores the art and culture of the Hispanic world. Discover the rich story of Spanish and Hispanic art and culture from antiquity to the 20th century: from masterpieces by Goya, …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 10th Apr 2023 Closing Soon
£24.50
Royal Academy of Arts, Picadilly

Executions

Public executions were a major part of Londoners’ lives for centuries. More frequent in London than in any other town, these morbid spectacles attracted thousands of onlookers at locations across the capital. From Smithfield to Southwark, from Banqueting House to …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 16th Apr 2023 Closing Soon
£15
London Museum Docklands, Poplar

Africa Fashion

Spanning iconic mid-20th century to contemporary creatives through photographs, textiles, music and the visual arts, Africa Fashion explores the vitality and global impact of a fashion scene as dynamic and varied as the continent itself. Over 250 objects will be …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 16th Apr 2023 Closing Soon
£16
Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, South Kensington

This Exhibition is a WORK EVENT!

Since taking office, Boris has been THE MOST cartooned politician in the history of our country. To celebrate – or mourn that fact depending on where you fall – The Cartoon Museum has collected a diverse selection of political cartoons …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 16th Apr 2023 Closing Soon
£8.50
Cartoon Museum, New Oxford Street

Maria Bartuszová

Delicate, evocative plaster sculptures inspired by the natural world Bringing together many works rarely exhibited before in the UK, this survey exhibition will highlight the abstract sculptures of Prague-born Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová. Bartuszová worked over three decades in KoÅ¡ice, …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 16th Apr 2023 Closing Soon
£16
Tate Modern, Southwark

Music, Migration and Mobility

This exhibition explores the lives and legacies of émigré musicians who fled the Nazi regime and the ravages of war. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), this exhibition is part of a major RCM research project in …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 16th Apr 2023 Closing Soon
Free
South Kensington

Chinese and British

Chinese communities have been calling the UK home for much longer than many realise. Many are able to trace their heritage to regions across East and Southeast Asia, which has led to a rich and diverse culture across the UK. …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 23rd Apr 2023 Closing Soon
Free
British Library, Camden

Bob and Roberta Smith: Thamesmead Codex

Thamesmead Codex celebrates the voices and local community of Thamesmead, London From 2019-2020, artist Bob and Roberta Smith interviewed people who live in Thamesmead, southeast London. Built in 1968 to alleviate London’s housing shortage, Thamesmead was one of many modernist …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 7th May 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Tate Modern, Southwark

Ukraine: Photographs from the Frontline

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022 shocked the world. Yet for those living in Donbas and Crimea, the harsh reality of war has loomed since 2014, foreboding a conflict which has become one of Europe’s most devastating since …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 7th May 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Imperial War Museum, Southwark

Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings

A new series of fresco paintings by Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings use the traditional medium of fresco painting to depict street scenes showing groups of people portraying various power dynamics, class and social relations …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 7th May 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Tate Britain, Pimlico

To the Market: Photographs by Lloyd Ramos

In 2013, photographer Lloyd Ramos graduated from university and found himself helping out at his parents’ Filipino/East Asian grocery on Walthamstow High Street. Over the next decade he began to document the daily rhythms of life on Walthamstow Market. The …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th May 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow

Venice 1500 Jacopo de' Barbari and the rise of printmaking

Focusing on Jacopo de’ Barbari and his celebrated ‘View of Venice’, this display showcases the innovation and variety of printmaking on the lagoon during the High Renaissance. In 1500, a huge woodcut View of Venice was printed in the city. …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 21st May 2023 Closing Soon
Free
British Museum, Russell Square

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Explore a forest of towering woven sculptures In the 1960s and 70s, the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz created radical sculptures from woven fibre. They were soft not hard; ambiguous and organic; towering works that hung from the ceiling and pioneered …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 21st May 2023 Closing Soon
£16
Tate Modern, Southwark

War Games

The UK’s first exhibition to explore what video games can tell us about conflict. The exhibition delves into one of today’s most popular storytelling mediums and seeks to challenge perceptions of how video games interpret stories about war and conflict …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 28th May 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Imperial War Museum, Southwark

Giorgio Morandi: Masterpieces from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation

To mark its 25th anniversary, the Estorick Collection is proud to present an exhibition of works by the major 20th-century artist Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964). For the first time, the entire Morandi collection from Italy’s Magnani-Rocca Foundation will be shown together …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 28th May 2023 Closing Soon
£7.50
Islington

Hallyu! The Korean Wave

The V&A’s first exhibition to celebrate the colourful and dynamic popular culture of South Korea, following its early origins to its place on the global stage today. From K-Pop costumes to K-drama props and posters, alongside photography, sculpture, fashion, video …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 25th Jun 2023 Closing Soon
£20
Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, South Kensington

Country Houses, Jewish Homes

The exhibition explores how Jews arrived in Britain, and fought for the right to acquire land and the political rights and social status that came with it This was a society still structured by Christianity and dominated by the landed aristocracy. …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 25th Jun 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Acton

Yinka Ilori

The first museum display exploring the work of artist and designer Yinka Ilori, celebrating a mix of cultural influences and will unpack the ingredients of a diasporic visual language. Visitors will see over 100 objects, ranging from artworks, photographs and …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 25th Jun 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Design Museum, Kensington

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Discover the natural world in all its wonder and diversity at the newly redesigned Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, where 100 remarkable photographs illustrate the precious beauty of our planet. The redesigned exhibition space positions the photographs among short …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 2nd Jul 2023 Closing Soon
£17
Natural History Museum, South Kensington

Hidden London: The Exhibition

Visit an ‘abandoned’ Tube station underworld and discover what secrets lurk beneath our busy streets in this Hidden London exhibition. The exhibition takes you on an immersive journey of some of London’s most secret spaces in the oldest subterranean railway …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 31st Jul 2023 Closing Soon
£18.50
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden

Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Glittering stars, shimmering galaxies, fiery suns and silver moons – wherever you are in the universe, don’t miss Astronomy Photographer of the Year 14. Astronomy Photographer of the Year is an annual competition featuring the world’s greatest space photography. Photographers …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 13th Aug 2023 Closing Soon
£10
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination

Welcome to the world of Science Fiction. In this immersive genre-defying exhibition you will embark on a once in a lifetime adventure through the cosmos to explore visions of the future through the science of today. Guided by an artificial …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 20th Aug 2023 Closing Soon
£20
Science Museum, South Kensington

Road to Recovery

This exhibition follows the challenging journeys of rehabilitation and recovery taken by soldiers who have suffered a life-changing physical or mental injury. In recent times, particularly during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, major improvements in battlefield medical care have …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 28th Aug 2023 Closing Soon
Free
National Army Museum, Chelsea

Re:Imagining Musicals

This display celebrates the glittering world of musical theatre, exploring the evolution and craftmanship of iconic musicals, from Miss Saigon and My Fair Lady to modern classics SIX the Musical, and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. This free display showcases 100 …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 27th Nov 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, South Kensington

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

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

Foe to Friend: The British Army in Germany since 1945

More than a million British soldiers have lived and served in Germany over the past 75 years. Immerse yourself in their stories and follow their evolution from conquerors and occupiers to allies and friends. Germany has been at the heart …

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Exhibition ends on Wednesday 21st Aug 2024 Closing Soon
Free
National Army Museum, Chelsea