Antibiotics have enabled us to combat diseases that were once untreatable. But bacteria have fought back, evolving into superbugs resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics. Our new exhibition explores how society is responding to the enormous challenge of antibiotic resistance, featuring scientific research from across the globe and the Read more [...]
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First Amongst Equals – Foundling Museum
Remarkable women who have shaped contemporary British society choose objects that speak to them from the Museum’s Collection Spanning 300 years of social history, culture and philanthropy, selections will enable visitors to see the Collection from different perspectives, to make connections between the past and the present, and to reflect Read more [...]
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Expeditions and Endeavours – Natural History Museum
For centuries, scientists and artists have embarked on a succession of expeditions to document the natural world. The observations of flora and fauna made by the artists on these voyages of natural history have contributed greatly to our understanding of nature. On display until October 2019, the exhibition content will Read more [...]
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Invisible Landscapes – Royal Academy
THE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO, THE DORFMAN SENATE ROOMS Discover how digital technologies are impacting our homes, cities and environment in a series of interventions inside the RA’s new Architecture Studio Invisible Landscapes will make visible the often-invisible presence of digital technologies in our lives and everyday environments. The programme will look from Read more [...]
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Life in the Dark – Natural History Museum
Leave daylight behind and put your senses to the test in this illuminating exhibition. Meet the creatures that thrive at night, in pitch-black caves and deep in the sea. Enter the worlds of nocturnal animals and discover how they find their way around their environment, hunt, mate and evade predators. Read more [...]
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Always Part of the Story – Horniman Museum
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 Read more [...]
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MAGIC REALISM: ART IN WEIMAR GERMANY 1919-33 – Tate Modern
Encounter the uncanny and mysterious through the art of the Weimar Republic Tate Modern will explore German art from between the wars in a year-long, free exhibition, drawing upon the rich holdings of The George Economou Collection. These loans offer a rare opportunity to view a range of artworks not Read more [...]
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Women Of Note – Foundling Museum
Discover how Handel’s music was created by female singers in this Handel Gallery display. In the eighteenth century, music performance was always a live event, and singers could build both their reputation and that of the composer through their performances. Composers depended on the competence of the performers – in Read more [...]
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Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt – Victoria and Albert Museum
Explore the design and culture of contemporary videogames ROOM 39 AND THE NORTH COURT This exhibition provides a unique insight into the design process behind a selection of groundbreaking contemporary videogames. Design work, including concept art and prototypes, feature alongside large-scale immersive installations and interactives. This exhibition includes content that Read more [...]
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Staging Jackson Pollock – Whitechapel Gallery
GALLERY 4 The revolutionary painting of American Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) was premiered in the UK in 1958 at the Whitechapel Gallery. Travelling to Europe from New York’s Museum of Modern Art after Pollock’s untimely death, the show provoked bewilderment and excitement. Six decades on, Pollock’s masterpiece Summertime 9A (1948) returns to the Whitechapel. Read more [...]
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Ulla von Brandenburg: Sweet Feast In partnership with Le Prix Marcel Duchamp – Whitechapel Gallery
GALLERY 2 Five hundred children visited Whitechapel Gallery on 28 January 1973 to learn about sweets as a popular art. An enticing display of confectionary including Belgian chocolate coins, French lollipops shaped as the Eiffel Tower, gummy mice from Germany, coffee-flavoured Hopjes from Holland, Italian marzipan fruits, salty licorice from Read more [...]
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MOMENTS OF SILENCE – Imperial War Museum
Two minute silences from the depths of the ocean to the heights of Everest form part of this immersive installation Moments of Silence is an innovative and immersive installation exploring the origins, history and future of remembrance rituals. Commissioned by IWM and created by the Tony and Olivier Award-winning artists 59 Read more [...]
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MIMESIS: AFRICAN SOLDIER – Imperial War Museum
John Akomfrah’s new multimedia installation remembers the millions of Africans and people of colour from across the globe who fought and took part in the First World War. The First World War was waged between empires that were global in their ambitions and reach. Between 1914 and 1918, millions of Read more [...]
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I WAS THERE: ROOM OF VOICES – Imperial War Museum
At 11am on 11 November 1918, an Armistice was declared and the First World War came to an end. The ceasefire marked a pivotal moment for an entire generation, but people experienced and reacted to it in many different ways. In this immersive sound installation, 32 people who fought and lived Read more [...]
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RENEWAL: LIFE AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN PHOTOGRAPHS – Imperial War Museum
In the years after the First World War, countries, cities and individuals had to regenerate and rebuild themselves on an extraordinary scale. From the devastation and loss, a new world emerged. Through a rich collection of photographs, discover the innovation and resourcefulness that shaped the rebuilding and regeneration of the Read more [...]
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THE LAST TSAR: BLOOD AND REVOLUTION – Science Museum (age 12 and up)
LEVEL 2 Explore the extraordinary lives and deaths of Tsar Nicholas II and his family and go behind the scenes to uncover the science behind one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century. Rulers of a sixth of the surface of the Earth, the last imperial monarchs of Russia, Read more [...]
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ART NOW – JESSE DARLING: THE BALLAD OF SAINT JEROME- Tate Britain
Jesse Darling is an artist based in London and Berlin, working in sculpture, installation, text, sound and performance Their practice is concerned with the vulnerability of the human body within the socio-political structures we live in and the strategies for dwelling and surviving that help us carry on. This newly Read more [...]
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Unlocking Paintings: The Art of Work – Dulwich Picture Gallery
Scenes of people at work became incredibly popular in the 17th century. These paintings offer a snapshot of working life, from fishing and farming to brickmaking and ironmongering. But life in the Low Countries was not all work and no play, and after a long day, people might go to Read more [...]
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The Secret Life of a Megaproject – London Transport Museum
Uncover lesser-known stories about the Crossrail project – one of the largest civil engineering projects in Europe. Families can take an immersive journey deep underground into tunnels and stations with never-before-seen construction footage, interactive maps and stories from the new generation of engineers who are building the Elizabeth line. Objects Read more [...]
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BLACK MIRROR: ART AS SOCIAL SATIRE – Saatchi Gallery
Simon Bedwell, Richard Billingham, Steve Bishop, Clayton Brothers, Michael Cline, Jessica Craig-Martin, Justin Craun, Aaron Fowler, Gao Brothers, Valerie Hegarty David Herbert, James Howard, Des Hughes, Scott King, Douglas Kolk, Wendy Mayer, Dominic McGill, Aleksandra Mir, Alejandra Prieto, Ben Schumacher Anne Speier, Roman Stanczak, John Stezaker, Jade Townsend, Marianne Vitale, Read more [...]
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EVOLUTION of The Artist and The Exhibited Works – Horniman Museum
NATURAL HISTORY GALLERY Visit Shauna Richardson’s beautifully crafted, life-size crochet animal sculptures, inspired and informed by natural history. Crochetdermy® is a term invented by Shauna Richardson to describe her technique. Crochetdermy® translates as Crochet Skin. Crochet: needlework consisting of the interlocking of looped stitches formed with a single thread and Read more [...]