This page lists current events at major museums and galleries throughout London. Smaller venues are catered for elsewhere on our site.
Museums
British Library
- Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination. Ends 13 March 2012, £9, Londonist review
- A Hankering After Ghosts: Charles Dickens And The Supernatural. Ends 4 March 2012, FREE, Londonist review
British Museum
- Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. Ends 26 February 2012, £10/£8
- Landscape, Heroes and Folktales: German Romantic Prints and Drawings. Ends 9 April 2012, FREE
- Manga at the British Museum. Ends 9 April 2012, FREE, Londonist preview
- The cost of living in Roman and modern Britain. Ends 15 April 2012, FREE
- Mine to medals the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games medals. Ends 9 September 2012, FREE
- Hajj: Journey To The Heart Of Islam. Ends 15 April 2012, £10/£8, Londonist preview
- (Coming Soon) Shakespeare: Staging the World. Starts 19 July 2012, Ends 25 November 2012, £14/£12
Horniman Museum
- The Art of Harmony. Ends 1 March 2013, FREE
- Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids. Ends 9 September 2012, FREE
Imperial War Museum London
- Memory Remains: Francesc Torres. Ends 26 February 2012, FREE
- Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin. Ends 15 April 2012, £7/£6
- War Story. Ends 30 November 2012, FREE
- A Family in Wartime. Starts 5 April 2012, FREE
- Ori Gersht: This Storm Is What We Call Progress. Ends 29 April 2012, FREE
London Transport Museum
- Sense and the City. Ends 18 March 2012, included in entrance fee, Londonist review
- Sense The City. Ends 18 March 2012, included in entrance fee
Museum of London
- Dickens and London. Ends 10 June 2012, £8/£6, Londonist review
- Simon Costin Dickensian Christmas Window. Ends February 2012, FREE
Museum of London Docklands
- No current exhibitions
Natural History Museum
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011. Ends 11 March 2012, £9/£4.50, Londonist preview
- Scott’s Last Exhibition. Ends 2 September 2012, £9
National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich
- Arctic Convoys. Ends 28 February 2012, FREE, Londonist preview
- Astronomy Photographer of the Year. Ends 12 February 2012, FREE, Londonist preview
- (Coming Soon) Titanic Remembered. Starts 8 March 2012, Ends 30 September 2012, admission charge
- (Coming Soon) Royal River: Power, Pageantry & the Thames. Opens 27 April 2012, Ends 9 September 2012, £11/£9
Science Museum
- Hidden Heroes: The Genius Of Everyday Things. Ends 5 June 2012, £6/£3.50, Londonist review
- Stephen Hawking Display. Ends 13 April 2012, FREE
V&A
- Albertopolis: The Development of South Kensington and the Exhibition Road Cultural Quarter.Ends 29 April 2012, FREE
- Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn. Ends 18 March 2012, FREE
- Porcelein City: Jingdezhen. Ends 25 March 2012, FREE
- Rabindranath Tagore: Poet and Painter. Ends 4 March 2012, FREE
- Beatrix Potter Country. Ends 12 June 2012, FREE
- On Eagle’s Wings: British Adventure Comics 1950-1969. Ends 27 May 2012
- (Coming Soon) Golden Spider Silk. Starts 25 February 2012, Ends 5 June 2012, FREE
- (Coming Soon) Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton. Starts 8 February 2012, Ends 22 April 2012, charge applies
- (Coming Soon) British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age. Starts 31 March 2012, Ends 12 August 2012, charge applies
- (Coming Soon) Island Stories: British Photography From 1945 to the Present. Starts 16 March 2012, Ends 19 September 2012, FREE
Wellcome Collection
- Miracles & Charms. Ends 26 February 2012, FREE, Londonist review
Galleries
National Gallery
- (Coming Soon) Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude. Starts 14 March 2012, Ends 5 June 2012, £12/£11/£6
- (Coming Soon) Titian’s First Masterpiece. Starts 4 April 2012, 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
- Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. Ends 12 February 2012, £2
- (Coming Soon) Lucian Freud Portraits. Starts 9 February 2012, Ends 27 May 2012, £14/£13/£12
- (Coming Soon) BP Portrait Award 2012. Starts 21 June 2012, Ends 23 September 2012, admission charge
- (Coming Soon) The Queen: Art and Image. Starts 17 May 2012, Ends 21 October 2012, admission charge
Royal Academy
- David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture. Ends 9 April 2012, £14/£13
- Various smaller exhibitions
Tate Britain
- Romantics. Ends 3 June 2012, FREE
- Has the Film Already Started? Ends 26 February 2012, FREE
- Migrations. Ends 12 August 2012, £6.60/£5.50
- (Coming Soon) Picasso and Modern British Art. Starts 15 February 2012, 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
- Photography: New Documentary Forms. Ends 31 March 2012, FREE
- The Unilever Series: Tacita Dean. Ends 11 March 2012, FREE
- (Coming Soon) Yayoi Kusama. Starts 9 February 2012, Ends 5 June 2012, £11/£9.50
- (Coming Soon) Alighiero Boetti. Starts 28 February 2012, Ends 27 May 2012, £11/£9.50
- (Coming Soon) Damien Hirst. Starts 4 April 2012, 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
