If you’re in the West End and get sick of all those people out enjoying the Spring sun on the shopping strip then beetle off Oxford Street to Manchester Square and find the Wallace Collection. Not only is this fine Georgian House gawpworthy in itself …
Famous as a founder of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was a noted polymath; scientist, inventor, author, publisher and philosopher but who knew he hosted cute comedy gigs round his gaff too? Of course, Franklin died in 1790 so it probably wasn’t his idea but …
Not only does London have the largest fire and rescue service in the UK, it also officially has the best. An Audit Commission assessment has rated LFB “excellent”, building on rumours of its top notchness a year ago and its former “good” rating in 2004. …
Museum of London’s latest’s wheeze is to bring magic and mystery to their Late in the form of one Pete Hathway who will be performing street magic and cunning trickery to astound you a week today, whilst mystical tours of the galleries will be pointing …
Edward T. Meyer is the Vice President of Exhibits and Archives for Ripley Entertainment. He’s worked for the company since 1978, and has personally acquired more than 20,000 exhibits. He took some time to answer a few of Londonist’s questions about the new London location …
Last night, we attended the launch of Darwin 200 at the Natural History Museum. If he was still alive, Charles Darwin would be an actual living legend, due his 200th birthday on 12 February 2009. Clearly he’s dead but that’s no excuse not to have …
Islington may get a bad rap once in a while, but Londonist still loves it. And we’re not alone: A new museum has opened on St John Street celebrating the borough and its history. The Islington Museum details the history of the borough from its …
Interesting concept this. What would Martian anthropologists make of us Earth-dwellers if all they had to go on were examples of contemporary art? The Barbican Art Gallery, disguised as a museum on the red planet, plays out this indulgence in a new exhibition. Those crafty …
After the (non-)scandal of (un-)banned Tube posters, the works of Lucas Cranach the Elder are now well and truly on show at the Royal Academy. Painter, print-maker, illustrator, businessman, propagandist, and huge fan of the female nude, this is Cranach’s first major exhibition in Britain. …
A few weeks back a group of Flickr folk, led by Annie Mole and supported by Trusted Places and the lovelies at Flickr themselves, were given free tickets to run amok in the London Transport Museum with their cameras. The Museum reopened in November last …
As part of a multi-billion pound investment programme, the cross-city Thameslink line is to get a brand new fleet of trains. Southern Railway, who will be operating the new stock when it comes into service next spring, will deploy 44 carriages to run northwards to …
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