This page lists current events and special exhibitions at major museums and galleries throughout London. Smaller venues are catered for elsewhere on our site.
Museums
British Library
- (Coming Soon)Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands. Ends 25 September 2012, £9/£5
British Museum
- Mine to medals the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games medals. Ends 9 September 2012, FREE
- (Coming Soon) Shakespeare: Staging the World. Starts 19 July 2012, Ends 25 November 2012, £14/£12
Horniman Museum
- Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids. Ends 9 September 2012, FREE
- The Body Adorned: Dressing London. Ends 6 January 2013, FREE. Londonist review.
Imperial War Museum London
- War Story. Ends 30 November 2012, FREE
- A Family in Wartime. Ends 31 December 2012, FREE
London Transport Museum
- Mind the Map: Inspiring art, design and cartography. Ends 28 October 2012, £13.50 – (adult annual ticket), under 16s free.
Museum of London
- Dickens and London. Ends 10 June 2012, £8/£6, Londonist review
- (Coming soon) At Home With The Queen, 25 May – 28 October, FREE
Museum of London Docklands
- Your 2012. Ends 8 July 2012, FREE
Natural History Museum
- Scott’s Last Exhibition. Ends 2 September 2012, £9
- Animal Inside Out. Ends 16 September 2012, £9/6. Londonist review.
National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich
- Titanic Remembered. Ends 30 September 2012, admission charge
- Royal River: Power, Pageantry & the Thames. Ends 9 September 2012, £11/£9. Londonist review.
Science Museum
- Hidden Heroes: The Genius Of Everyday Things. Ends 5 June 2012, £6/£3.50, Londonist review
- (Coming Soon) Codebreaker – Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy. Starts 21 June 2012, Ends June 2013, FREE
V&A
- Beatrix Potter Country. Ends 12 June 2012, FREE
- On Eagle’s Wings: British Adventure Comics 1950-1969. Ends 27 May 2012
- Golden Spider Silk. Ends 5 June 2012, FREE
- Island Stories: British Photography From 1945 to the Present. Ends 19 September 2012, FREE
- British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age. Ends 12 August 2012, £12/10/8
- Kitty and the Bulldog: Lolita fashion and the influence of Britain. Ends 27 January 2013, FREE. Londonist preview.
Wellcome Collection
- Brains: The Mind as Matter. Ends 17 June, FREE. Londonist review.
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Galleries
National Gallery
- Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude. Ends 5 June 2012, £12/£11/£6
- Titian’s First Masterpiece. Ends 2 September 2012, FREE
- (Coming Soon) Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. Starts 11 July 2012, Ends 23 September 2012, admission charge
- (Coming Soon) Seduced by Art: Photography Past And Present. Starts 31 October 2012, Ends 20 January 2013, admission charge
National Portrait Gallery
- Lucian Freud Portraits. Ends 27 May 2012, £14/£13/£12, Londonist review
- The Queen: Art and Image. Starts 17 May 2012, Ends 21 October 2012, admission charge
- (Coming Soon) BP Portrait Award 2012. Starts 21 June 2012, Ends 23 September 2012, admission charge
Royal Academy
- Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed. Ends 10 June 2012, £9/7
- (Coming soon) Summer Exhibition. Opens 4 June, Ends 12 August 2012, £10/8
Tate Britain
- Romantics. Ends 3 June 2012, FREE
- Migrations. Ends 12 August 2012, £6.60/£5.50, Londonist review
- Picasso and Modern British Art. Ends 15 July 2012, £15.50/£13.50
- (Coming Soon) Another London. Starts 31 July 2012, Ends 16 September 2012, admission charge
- (Coming Soon) Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde. Starts 12 September 2012, Ends 13 January 2013
Tate Modern
- Yayoi Kusama. Ends 5 June 2012, £11/£9.50
- Alighiero Boetti. Ends 27 May 2012, £11/£9.50
- Damien Hirst. Ends 9 September 2012, £15.50/£13.50
- (Coming Soon) Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye. Starts 28 June 2012, Ends 14 October 2012, £15.50/£13.50
- (Coming Soon) The Unilever Series: Tino Sehgal. Starts 17 July 2012, Ends 28 October 2012, FREE
- (Coming Soon) William Klein/Daido Moriyama. Starts 10 October 2012, Ends 27 January 2013, admission charge
- (Coming Soon) A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance Art. Starts 7 November 2012, Ends 1 April 2013, admission charge
