museums and galleries

Future Shorts Festival at the British Library

The nights are drawing in, and with the temptation to stay indoors comes the latest of our Future Shorts Festival screenings...

"Don't Cut Just Grow" by Giorgia Tobiola

Photojournalist Giorgia Tobiolo will exhibit "Don't Cut Just Grow". Giorgia started taking photos and testimonies last year when the project was threatened with closure after funding cuts...

Kaffee und Kuchen Tour

Museum tour with traditional Austrian coffee and cake. Enjoy an informal house tour, followed by traditional Austrian coffee and cake and the opportunity to explore Freud’s final home at your leisure. The tour is kindly supported by Kipferl...

Michael Cook: Broken Dreams

October Gallery is proud to present Broken Dreams, an exhibition of works by Michael Cook, an Indigenous artist from Queensland, Australia...

Artist Talk: Michael Cook discusses his UK premiere exhibition - Broken Dreams

Artist’s Talk and Film Screening, Saturday 3rd November, 2012 - 3.00pm...

St Dominic's Annual Art Exhibition

Exhibition and sale of art and crafts by local people. Also Photographic and Children's Art Competitions. Free entrance...

Quaker Service: The Friends Relief Service in Post-War Europe

Admission is free but places must be booked in advance at http://quakerservice.eventbrite.co.uk/...

Britain In Palestine:An exhibition on British rule in Palestine 1917-1948

This exhibition will tell the story of what happened to Palestine and its people under the British mandate for Palestine. It will show how and why Britain got involved in Palestine, and the impact of British rule upon the country...

Freud's Night Visitors - Stephen Gross

Play reading Join us this evening for a reading of ‘Freud's Night Visitors’, a play by Stephen Gross. ‘The dying Freud is visited by three figures who have been central to his life...

closing ceremony – we are going live to the world – photography exhibit 8th Nov 2012

Kavita Kapoor and Avi Bercovich have joined forces to bring you a games-inspired evening of Photography, Art and Live music. As London rumbles on in a post-olympic world we are taking a moment to reflect on and share our photographs from inside and ...

Marilyn Southey - For the Love of London

Paintings and prints by Marilyn Southey A native of Southern Africa, Marilyn has studied and worked in the UK for many years, and practised printmaking for the last twenty-five...

Greeting Cards Sale

St Pancras library has a great number of fine art greetings cards by Old & Modern Masters, including many well-known British artists...

Simon Martin: UR Feeling

For UR Feeling, Simon Martin brings together a selection of objects and images from artists and designers including Ettore Sottsass, Scott Burton and Stephen Shore...

Eric Bainbridge: Steel Sculptures

Eric Bainbridge presents a series of new works made from reclaimed steel and other more incongruous materials, drawing himself closer to the modernist abstraction of the 1950s and '60s embodied by sculptors David Smith and Anthony Caro...

EXHIBITION - On the Road: Jack Kerouac’s Manuscript Scroll

4 October - 27 December 2012 FREE On the Road is one of the defining books of the Beat Generation...

Late at the Library: Mughal Nites

As our exhibition opens, enjoy an extraordinary night of music, performance and spectacle inspired by a party at a Mughal Palace...

Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire

9 November 2012 - 2 April 2013...

Lost & hidden houses of Highgate: an exhibition

An exhibition of material from HLSI’s archives. Photographs, plans and documents: the story of some of Highgate's houses both great and small...

'Memoir'

The Relational School (of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy) and the Freud Museum are holding a series of intimate evening forums addressing the subject of memoir from the perspective of how writing and publishing has come to affect the individual’s e...

Keeping Schtum - a secret history of Jews and football

Anthony Clavane Jews don’t do football. This, at any rate, is the myth. They are people of the book not people of the penalty kick...

'Missing Out'

In his latest book, 'Missing Out' (Hamish Hamilton), acclaimed psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips probes another intriguing feature of the human condition: the 'unlived life'...

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931) on the Big Screen

Witness a tale of good vs. evil (all in one individual) and self-experimentation in this classic sci-fi horror film...

Witches and Lizards: Halloween at the Grant

Where better to spend Halloween than in a room of scary skeletons and skulls? Come and join us, if you dare, for this special spooky night exploring the role of animals in scare-stories, rituals and superstitions from across the world...

Tooth and Claw: Killer Carnivores for Half Term

From coyotes to cobras and leopards to leopard sharks, investigate the amazing ways that meat-eaters find, catch and eat their prey...

Naughty Nature: The Seven Deadly Sins

This event explores the darker side of the natural world through one-night only exhibition labels and specimen-based activities. Do animals experience lust, get jealous or feel pride? If other species get angry or gluttonous, why shouldn’t we?...

“Majestic Magic” Camden Family Learning Fun Day

The Grant Museum are heading out for the day and taking some specimen-based activities to Coram’s Fields, exploring the kings and queens of the animal kingdom. There will be lots of free events for families to join in...

Weird and Wonderful Wildlife: Family Activity Day for Bloomsbury Festival

Explore some of the world’s weirdest and most wonderful wildlife and get hands on with our real animal specimens in this free family fun day at the Grant Museum...

Curator tour ‘Curious anatomys’

Visit the RCP museum after hours on Monday 8 October 2012 until 8pm to explore the museum collections, listen to the curators and experience the Grade I listed architecturally acclaimed spaces. Discover more about our current exhibition ‘Curious anat...

Open House 2012: Explore the Royal College of Physicians – a modernist masterpiece

Join Open House London’s city-wide celebrations and visit our acclaimed Grade I listed headquarters – London’s finest post-war building set beside the historic beauty of Regent’s Park...

Slave-Owners of Bloomsbury: Culture and Exploitation

A Free Exhibition by the Department of History, University College London Monday 1 October – 12 November 2012 Monday 10-6, Tuesday 10-6, Thursday 10-7, Alternate Saturdays 11-5 (Our website – ...

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