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Explore the evolution of Diana, Princess of Wales’ innate sense of style in a new display at her former London home. In this elegant new display in the historic galleries of Kensington Palace, a piece from Diana’s wardrobe will complement original sketches created for her during the design process. Diana’s handwritten comments, added alongside her favourite designs, demonstrate the joy she found Read more...

The Access Advisory Group is a diverse group of individuals with lived experiences of disability. We play an important role in the Horniman. We have made this gallery accessible to more people. Museums are now becoming more accessible but too often disabled people aren’t visible. We set out to change that with this display. We did our research in the Read more...

The world’s best space photography Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year returns with a brand new exhibition showcasing the world’s greatest space photography. This year the competition attracted an astonishing 4,602 entries from 90 different countries across the world. Each spectacular image lets us see the universe in a whole new light – find out who was crowned winner. See all the Read more...

A collaborative project between UEL and the museum bringing together architects, artists, photographers and students spanning the educational spectrum. Seventy first year BSc Architecture students from UEL were invited to re-think how visitors might interact with the museum and design new inventive spaces for playing and learning. Pupils from Morpeth Secondary School and St Johns Primary School have user tested their Read more...

“The whole point of fashion is to make fashionable clothes available to everyone.” Mary Quant From miniskirts and hot pants to vibrant tights and makeup, discover how Mary Quant launched a fashion revolution on the British high street, with over 200 garments and accessories, including unseen pieces from the designer’s personal archive. Extended hours on Friday until 10.00. Closed 24, 25 Read more...

Award-winning, internationally-exhibited visual artist Claire Morgan has created stunning new pieces for the Horniman, including a dramatic installation in Gallery Square. Claire’s thought-provoking works draws on the theme of waste and the impact that humans have on their surroundings. Her pieces include thousands of fragments of colourful waste polythene frozen in time, and nature combined with plastics. As I Live Read more...

Our free exhibition will bring together two artists who explore the representation of chronic illness and reclaim the idea of ‘misbehaving bodies’. Influential photographer Jo Spence’s (1934–92) work documents her diagnosis of breast cancer and subsequent healthcare regime throughout the 1980s. Her raw and confrontational photography will be shown alongside Oreet Ashery’s (b. 1966) award-winning miniseries ‘Revisiting Genesis’, 2016, which Read more...

 Artificial intelligence is gaining an ever-increasing presence in our lives. Everything from deep-sea exploration to getting a cheeky take-away is being reimagined with some form of automation. Technology developers are racing to create fully autonomous machines with the ability to make decisions on their own. How many of these smart machines already exist? And how much control are we willing to transfer Read more...

A new display showcasing the very best of the Cartoon Museums collection of cartoon art, curated by Cartoonist and Cartoon Museum Trustee Steve Bell. Closed Monday Ticket included in admission price of £8.50 with concessions.  Under 18s, registered disabled and their carer are FREE. Children 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult Read more...

A new exhibition celebrating the world of comics, curated by Comics Curator Steve Marchant. Closed Monday Ticket included in admission price of £8.50 with concessions.  Under 18s, registered disabled and their carer are FREE. Children 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult Read more...

We’ve dug deep into our collections to bring you 325 objects from our 325 year history. From Roman relics to a nuclear fall-out calculator from the Cold War, the exhibition features a variety of fascinating artefacts to celebrate our 325th anniversary. The objects explore how money and the way we pay for things has transformed since the Bank of England Read more...

Extinction Rebellion is a global activist group calling for urgent action on climate change through acts of non-violent civil disobedience and disruption. Since its first public action on 31 October 2018 urging the UK government to declare a climate and ecological emergency and commit to reduce emissions to net zero by 2025, XR has grown into an international movement with Read more...

Sound artist, Yuri Suzuki, showcases past works and new interactive pieces that demonstrate his creative practice. This free display on the first floor of the museum’s atrium is divided into distinct sections, with works ranging from experimental product design to large-scale sound installations. Suzuki explores how we navigate and connect to the surrounding world through sound, and how new technologies Read more...

Discover the most innovative designs across fashion, architecture, digital, transport, product and graphic design from the past 12 months, as nominated by the public and design experts from around the world. ‘The wacky and the wonderful, life-saving or just mind-changing… these are the people designing our future.’ Channel 4 News Explore innovations and inventions from around the world that champion accessibility, Read more...

Experience Blake’s visionary art in his largest show in a generation​ William Blake was a painter, printmaker and poet who created some of the most iconic images in British art. Radical and rebellious, he is an inspiration to visual artists, musicians, poets and performers worldwide. His personal struggles in a period of political terror and oppression, his technical innovation, his vision Read more...

The largest UK exhibition of this influential artist, teacher, and curator Tate Modern presents the work of Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer (born 1937) in a year-long free exhibition. It brings together some 35 works, revealing the diversity of her output, including graphic works, photographs, films and paintings. Spanning more than five decades, the show highlights the playful conceptual approach that she brings Read more...

A new film exploring the erasure of identities, histories and cultures Sophia Al-Maria (b.1983) is a London-based artist, writer and filmmaker. Through her diverse practice, she addresses the complex impacts of globalisation and issues related to consumerism, technology and the loss of traditional cultures. Al-Maria will present Beast Type Song, a new film examining the erasure of identities, histories and cultures Read more...

How should we use a grand piano in order to produce sound? By opening the piano and stacking wooden blocks inside the instrument until one falls and creates a noise, or by dropping dried beans onto the keys? Conceptual fluxus artist George Brecht (1926–2008), in one of his iconic works Incidental Music, instructed fellow artists to demonstrate how several people at once could Read more...

The Art of Innovation explores the relationship between science and art over the past 250 years, and how it has helped to interpret, study and explore the world around us. Art and science are in continual dialogue and have been symbiotic and antagonistic in their relationship to revolutionary ideas. This ambitious exhibition will showcase the breadth of the Science Museum Group Read more...

Discover the story of Princess Victoria, the young girl destined to be queen, in the rooms where she was born and raised at Kensington Palace. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Victoria’s birth, this new permanent exhibition explores how an indulged young princess blossomed into the independent and iconic monarch we remember. The new display includes remarkable objects relating to Read more...

THE CURVE Explore the underbelly of our digital world in this exhibition revealing the powerful, and often hidden, forces at play in artificial intelligence. Artist Trevor Paglen’s new Curve commission takes as its starting point the way in which AI networks are taught how to ‘see’ and ‘perceive’ the world by taking a closer look at image datasets. Paglen has Read more...