| Saturday 27th April |
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| A weekend of computer games. W.A.S.D is the central playable and interactive feature of London Games Festival. |
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| The Chelsea Physic Garden will have over 30 stalls selling plants, which gives you both a chance to buy a plant and to visit the Physic Garden for free. |
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| Normally you need to pay to visit the gardens, but on a few weekends a year, the gardens are free to visit. |
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| The two-day festival includes 100+ vintage fashion traders, rare classic cars and more. |
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| The Museum's depot in Acton will be open for three days, giving you the opportunity to explore our collections store, with its treasure trove of over 320,000 objects. |
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| An exhibition of quilts to celebrate this SE London quilting group's 25th anniversary. |
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| The counter-cultural publishing house presents an evening of eclectic authors, artists and musicians, including Jarvis Cocker, Sheena Patel and Musa Okwonga. |
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| Sunday 28th April |
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| Normally you need to pay to visit the gardens, but on a few weekends a year, the gardens are free to visit. |
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| The two-day festival includes 100+ vintage fashion traders, rare classic cars and more. |
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| The Museum's depot in Acton will be open for three days, giving you the opportunity to explore our collections store, with its treasure trove of over 320,000 objects. |
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| A WW2-era history attraction that's open to the public once a month. |
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| Explore numerous stalls selling letterpress supplies, type and ornaments, paper, printed items, second-hand books and type specimens and lots more inky goodness. |
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| Once a month, the oldest building in Hackney, St Augustine's Tower is open, so you can climb up to the top. |
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| Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia. |
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| Monday 29th April |
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| A guided tour of the unique and historic Stationers' Hall in the City of London. |
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| This panel debate will bring together a diverse group of policy-makers, senior infrastructure professionals, academics and other experts to debate the topic. |
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| Boyajian's star, a faint and unprepossessing presence in the constellation of Cygnus, attracted astronomers' attention when it began to flicker alarmingly. |
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| Tuesday 30th April |
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| The UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering presents a showcase of the latest breakthroughs in health tech. |
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| Can a flower make you feel hope? Explore the relationship between art and emotion as we look at pictures from the RHS & Tate art collections |
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| Wednesday 1st May |
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| The MML will open its doors to free May Day feature tours. Visitors can visit the room where Lenin worked in exile from 1902 to 1903 and see the displays. |
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| Delve into the science of cosmic exploration and explore alien worlds with founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, Lisa Kaltenegger. |
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| Thursday 2nd May |
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| Join Stuart the CEO of Hoxton Hall on a guided tour of venue and learn all about the building's heritage |
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| Leo Murray - director of innovation and engagement at the charity We Are Possible will take you through a number of the programmes and workshops that have reduced car use in cities. |
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| An evening in the Medicinal Garden and Museum discovering how plants from the garden have been, and still are, used in medicine. |
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| On the first Thursday of the month, Holborn's Novelty Automation has a bar in the store for their late-night opening. |
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| An evening of talks about three important collections of art and objects and how they were assembled |
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| Chantal Lyons and her new book which takes us on a journey of discovery to get up close and personal with these complex and intelligent creatures and revealing what it might take for us to coexist with wild boar. |
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| Friday 3rd May |
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| Six times a year, the private gardens at Lambeth Palace are opened to the public. |
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| Historian Jonathan Healey charts the turbulent course of the seventeenth century |
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| Join Ekow Eshun, the curator of our current exhibition The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, in Conversation with Dorothy Price, the curator of the Royal Academy’s current exhibition Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change. |
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| Saturday 4th May |
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| Three weekends of big steam action on the Epping Ongar Railway with guest locomotives. |
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| IWA Canalway Cavalcade returns to London’s Little Venice to celebrate the best of life on the waterways in London and its community. |
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| Come behind the scenes and explore the stores at the Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre |
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| Monthly open day at one of London's more curious and delightful museums, devoted to the history of the sewing machine. |
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| In a galaxy far, far away, join Alex Baker to discover the captivating chemistry found in the Star Wars universe. |
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