Exhibition Road

Victorian morality games and a Jubilee tie-in from 200 years ago.

Architectural gongs for some new London buildings.

Lebanese dishes in a stylized Lebanese market … in South Ken convenient to the museums and the Tube

Work to transform Exhibition Road into a ‘shared surface’ street is finished.

Queuing for science? Who’d ever have believed it possible? But that’s what happens month-in, month-out at the Science Museum’s Lates evening. Tonight’s happening will be no exception as curious punters wait in line for a chance to tour the museum’s treasures accompanied by live music, …

After a year in which the Victoria & Albert has already opened two major new galleries — one for Ceramics, the other for an extensive collection of Medieval & Renaissance artefacts — the museum shows no sign of slowing down: management have invited a group …

After their City Hall protest fell on deaf ears, a charity for the blind is to lauch a legal appeal against the ‘shared surface’ plans for Exhibtiion Road in Kensington. The council wants to remove pavements and replace kerbs with a “tactile corduroy delineator”, in …

The part-pedestrianisation of Exhibition Road has been approved by Kensington & Chelsea council, albeit with some minor amendments. Whether influenced by the blind protesters at City Hall last month, or the slightly hysterical vision of transport apocalypse drawn by a local resident complaining about a …

Happy birthday to our lifelong friend in South Kensington: the Science Museum. It’s 100 years ago today since the much-loved institution broke away from the V&A to go it alone. The museum remains a temple to the modern world and an inexhaustible supply of curiosities …

Everyone’s favourite bookstore when it comes to maps, Stanfords is presenting a series of lectures by author-adventurers. Last night, the Royal Geographical Society hosted James Cracknell, former Olympic rower and occasional adventurer as he discussed his recent race to the South Pole with Ben Fogle. …