| Saturday 27th May |
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| Lots of shops in Chelsea and Belgravia decorated their pavements for one week only in a free display. |
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| A chance to visit the museum inside the prison that's not usually open to the public. |
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| Europe's biggest independent motorcycle show, celebrates the creativity of the new-wave and cafe-racer custom motorcycle culture, with over 300 curated custom motorcycles on display. |
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| A restoration project has bought the mill back to working order for the first time since 1935, and it's now open to the public. |
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| Once a month open day at a nature reserve that sits alongside the railway in Forest Hill. |
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| The Doctor Who store will be joined by Patrick O'Kane, Richard Price and Simon Carew for photograph signings. |
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| Some of the UK’s leading scientists will take to their soapboxes to showcase cutting-edge research in this free live event. |
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| Sunday 28th May |
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| Lots of shops in Chelsea and Belgravia decorated their pavements for one week only in a free display. |
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| A chance to visit the museum inside the prison that's not usually open to the public. |
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| The Hayes Canal Festival 2023 offers boat trips, activities, food and live music. |
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| Europe's biggest independent motorcycle show, celebrates the creativity of the new-wave and cafe-racer custom motorcycle culture, with over 300 curated custom motorcycles on display. |
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| A restoration project has bought the mill back to working order for the first time since 1935, and it's now open to the public. |
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| A chance to hear a working Merlin Engine, the type that would have been used in an Avro Lancaster. |
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| A WW2-era history attraction that's open to the public once a month. |
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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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| Jeremy Harte offers vivid insights into the hidden world of England’s large Gypsy population. |
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| A note that a large cruise ship will pass through Tower Bridge in the evening. |
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| Monday 29th May |
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| A chance to hear a working Merlin Engine, the type that would have been used in an Avro Lancaster. |
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| Tuesday 30th May |
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| Join the IWM London to discuss historian and author Sarah Louise Miller’s latest book, The Women Behind the Few and experience the Second World War Galleries after hours. |
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| Love cheese and want to learn the science behind its moreishness? Join us for a talk and tasting rolled into one. |
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| Wednesday 31st May |
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| Experience live stone carving by stonemasonry apprentices and students, have-a-go at lettering and carving in stone. |
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| Step back in time with author and historian, Helen Amy, on an exploration of Victorian London, the beating heart of an empire at its peak. |
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| Thursday 1st June |
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| Experience live stone carving by stonemasonry apprentices and students, have-a-go at lettering and carving in stone. |
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| Bombproof vaults, a cavernous library and shelves upon shelves of natural history treasures. A behind-the-scenes tour. |
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| Join curators Jessica Harrison-Hall and Julia Lovell as they introduce the context, scope, themes and highlight objects of the extraordinary Citi exhibition, China’s hidden century. |
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| A monthly late opening of the restored Roman temple found near Bank in the City of London in the 1950s, and recently restored to its original subterranean location. |
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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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| This talk will consider Dance’s scheme and its visual afterlives not simply as relics of a failed planning exercise, but as examples of a ‘paper architecture’ that helped to configure expectations about London’s future form. |
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| Former Christmas Lecturer Helen Czerski explores on of the earth's most complex systems: the ocean. |
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| Dr Clare Smith will be examining the depiction of murder and murderers in art, and considering art that has been produced by murderers. |
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| Friday 2nd June |
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| Experience live stone carving by stonemasonry apprentices and students, have-a-go at lettering and carving in stone. |
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| Once a month from June to September, the normally private gardens at Lambeth Palace are opened to the public. |
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| Professor Juliette Pattinson explores the formation of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and its service during the First World War. |
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| Contemporary Specialist Mark Dunton draws on our rich archival sources to take you through the year, 60 years ago, when the Sixties truly started to swing. |
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| Discover the revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you see the world around you differently. |
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| Join some of the most influential voices in the food family for a lively discussion exploring why food is such a powerful tool for queer community building, resistance and celebration. |
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| Saturday 3rd June |
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| A few weeks before the King's official birthday parade, there's a rehearsal of the Trooping the Colour. |
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| Ffree entry to the Musical Museum all day to launch the 1980s exhibition. |
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| Occasional open day at a museum of domestic "clutter" housed in an old farm barn. |
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| Exhibitions closing shortly |
| This display, marking the 200th anniversary of the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, celebrates the female UCL teachers and students who were core to ancient language teaching in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Ends on Sat, 27th May) | | The UK’s first exhibition to explore what video games can tell us about conflict. (Ends on Sun, 28th May) | | Fifty years on from the release of David Bowie’s album, this exhibition delves into the creation of its iconic ‘lightning bolt’ cover portrait by Brian Duffy. (Ends on Sun, 28th May) | | In his first solo exhibition with Vigo, the artist's androgenous and striking forms are directly reminiscent of the accentuated designs of fairground rides, a nod to Godsk's upbringing in the world of the Danish funfair. (Ends on Sun, 28th May) | | The streets of Chelsea will be transformed with floral creations adorning the frontages of over 80 businesses, shops and restaurants. (Ends on Sun, 28th May) | | For the first time, the entire Morandi collection from Italy’s Magnani-Rocca Foundation will be shown together in the UK. (Ends on Sun, 28th May) | | The "Arrival" project will present the systematic work of "Crypto ZR" incorporating internet discussions regarding crypto art, attributed to the discussion on language, civilisation, and communication in the film “Arrival". (Ends on Sun, 28th May) | | A major exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig – including paintings and works on paper created since the artist’s move from Trinidad to London in 2021. (Ends on Mon, 29th May) | | In this exhibition Baharier is also showcasing a number of portraits of disabled people who have changed society. (Ends on Wed, 31st May) | | This exhibition will take visitors back in time to a more magical period of retro-futuristic glitz, glamour and adventure, showcasing classic comic artwork based on the worlds of Gerry Anderson. (Ends on Sun, 4th Jun) | | This exhibition brings together intimate depictions of gardens and greenhouses, public parks and favoured plant specimens by artists of the interwar years. (Ends on Sun, 4th Jun) | | An exhibition exploring Pan-African cinema and its relationship with Black British cinema and culture. (Ends on Sun, 4th Jun) | | A display of ceramics by Simon Pettet inside the remarkable Dennis Severs House. (Ends on Sun, 4th Jun) | | A free outdoor exhibition of photography, art and history from the archives and collections of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, held by Barts Health NHS Trust Archives. (Ends on Tue, 6th Jun) | | This exhibition looks again at one of the best-known faces in the National Gallery: Quinten Massys’s 16th-century depiction of an old woman, a painting known as ‘The Ugly Duchess’. (Ends on Sun, 11th Jun) | | The first major UK exhibition to explore the exceptional talents of the Renaissance master Donatello, arguably the greatest sculptor of all time. (Ends on Sun, 11th Jun) | | Discover the past, present and possible futures of kumihimo, an intricate, decorative braided cord from Japan, in the first major UK exhibition exploring this ancient yet contemporary Japanese art. (Ends on Sun, 11th Jun) | | Artist Nalini Malani, our first National Gallery contemporary fellow, presents new ways of seeing well-known works of art. (Ends on Sun, 11th Jun) |
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