Museum

Rejoice! A new Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum (and hopefully an even bigger and better tearoom) has been granted permission, for the site between Calvert’s Buildings and St Margaret’s Court just off Borough High Street. Since its last site on Southwark Street closed in 2008, …

Site specific performances are two a penny in London, with some making excellent use of interesting spaces and others merely dropping actors and audiences into an unusual venue with the hope some magical synthesis will happen. Keats in Hampstead is an example of a crucially …

©Barrie Wentzell Photography Handel House Museum will pay tribute to its rock history this summer, when “Hendrix in Britain” opens at 25 Brook Street. This Mayfair townhouse was home to composer George Frederick Handel for 36 years and is now a museum dedicated to his …

Victoria and Albert seem to be all over our TV screens at the moment. We should return the housecall by visiting their eponymous museum for tonight’s Lates event. The jamboree kicks off at 6.30 and is themed around the playground. There’s waaaay too much going …

If there’s a reader amongst you that hasn’t been to the London Transport Museum then please pay attention – the admission ticket is better value than ever before now that the Suburbia exhibition has opened. Tracing the development of the commuter belt from earliest Golders …

The annual spook-fest of Halloween is looming and there is, as ever, a pressure to be doing something for the occasion, if only to avoid children knocking on your door for treats (and the alternative ‘tricks’ they may be offering are even less desirable…). To …

London Transport Museum’s not just about how we got about way back when. It’s a constantly evolving collection, keeping pace with what’s happening and changing in our city today. Opening on 19 September, as a follow up to their great ‘Art of the Poster’ exhibition …

courtesy of Imperial War Museum On Sunday 3 September 1939 at 11.15am, the then Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced on the airwaves that Britain and France were at war with Germany, or, as he put it pithily in his pocket diary, on show in a …

Ting-Ting Cheng by Dean Nicholas An artist without a studio is like a cook without a kitchen so you can imagine how chuffed the winners of the Artists Without Studios Prize are feeling with Ben Uri Gallery at their disposal. Gone is the formal hanging …

By dartar via the Londonist Flickrpool Being partial to all things nice and spicy it’s tastebud tantalising that Horniman Museum is running a Jerk Cookout this weekend, to find the best jerk chicken in South London. 25 chefs will line up to create 2 jerk …