Exhibitions in London

Design Museum

The first UK retrospective of Japanese creative director NIGO, with over 700 objects spanning fashion, ceramics and vintage Americana from his 30-year career.

National Gallery · Past

The first major UK monographic exhibition devoted to Francisco de Zurbarán, master of the Spanish Golden Age, with visions from Baroque Seville.

Tate Britain · Free

British-French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira creates a major site-specific installation for the Duveen Galleries, exploring memory, migration and displacement through photography, performance, video and installation.

Barbican Centre · Past

Public conversation event featuring artist Delcy Morelos with curator Diego Chocano

Barbican Centre · Free · Past

Colombian artist Delcy Morelos's monumental 24m site-specific installation of soil, clay and fragrant spices, with tunnels to walk through, exploring our bond with the earth.

Victoria and Albert Museum

A landmark V&A collaboration with Brisbane's QAGOMA, showcasing over 40 contemporary artists and First Nations perspectives from across Asia, Australia and the Pacific.

Dulwich Picture Gallery · Free

A display exploring theatre portraits in the Gallery's Collection — costume, performance, and queerness and gender identity on and off stage — pairing historic works with contemporary artists.

Saatchi Gallery · Past

New works by contemporary artists previously shown in the 2025 Flowers exhibition, celebrating the beauty and significance of flowers.

Tate Britain

The first major European retrospective in 30 years of the rule-breaking American painter, with celebrated and rarely seen works from his teens to his late self-portraits.

Barbican Centre · Past

Speculative architect Liam Young's immersive exhibition of films, soundscapes, costumes and installations imagining hopeful future worlds shaped by technology and climate.

Natural History Museum

Dive back in time to meet the fiercest marine reptiles ever to swim the oceans, from giant ichthyosaurs to plesiosaurs, in this immersive deep-sea exhibition.

Wallace Collection

A major retrospective of over 50 of Sir Winston Churchill's paintings, from wartime scenes and Mediterranean landscapes to intimate views of his home at Chartwell.

Wellcome Collection · Free

A display exploring HIV and AIDS through stories of protest and care, from the UK's 1980s-90s epidemic to global activism today, via photography, film and archives.

RAF Museum · Free

Veteran artist David Tovey and LGBT+ military communities create a steel prison-cell installation and soundscape confronting the Armed Forces 'gay ban'.

Hayward Gallery · Past

Large-scale intricate web-like installations woven floor-to-ceiling, alongside drawings, videos, and photographs.

Hayward Gallery · Past

The first major UK survey of the Chinese artist's immersive installations and sculptures.

National Portrait Gallery · Past

The first major UK exhibition of the celebrated portrait artist's works on paper, with rarely shown preparatory studies.

British Museum · Past

The reality of Japan's armour-clad warriors over 1,000 years, with around 280 items many shown for the first time.

Barbican Centre · Past

A retrospective charting the Colombian artist's prolific six-decade practice exploring the politics of everyday images.

Courtauld Gallery · Past

The first exhibition dedicated to Georges Seurat's seascapes, and the first UK Seurat show in almost 30 years.

Barbican Centre · Free · Past

Never-before-shown sculptures by Lynda Benglis paired with historic works by Alberto Giacometti.

National Portrait Gallery · Past

Over 80 photographs spanning studio portraiture, LGBTQ+ portraiture, and documentary photography.

Science Museum · Free · Past

Photography revealing the fragile beauty of the world's largest wetland and the threats to its wildlife.

The Photographers' Gallery · Past

Four shortlisted artists — Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gesicka, Amak Mahmoodian, Rene Matic — explore memory, identity, and displacement.

Royal Academy of Arts · Past

The first UK exhibition of the Flemish painter's wide-ranging oeuvre, including grand history paintings and portraiture.

The Photographers' Gallery · Free · Past

Layered landscape photographs by Nicholas Hughes, made via a hybrid analogue-digital process, exploring the beauty and quiet fragility of the natural world.

Sir John Soane's Museum · Free · Past

Marking 300 years since the death of English Baroque architect Sir John Vanbrugh, designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard, with rarely seen drawings in his own hand.

Whitechapel Gallery · Free · Past

A film programme for the gallery's 125th anniversary, screening rarely seen films on artists who exhibited here, from Barbara Hepworth and David Hockney to Frida Kahlo.

London Transport Museum · Past

Celebrates the contribution Caribbean people have made to London's transport and British culture since the 1950s, through personal stories, photography, posters and film.

Dulwich Picture Gallery · Past

First major UK exhibition of Estonian modernist Konrad Mägi (1878-1925): over 60 luminous landscapes and portraits, plus a new Kristina Ollek commission.

British Museum · Free · Past

Explore this mystical Islamic movement through objects ranging from alms bowls to calligraphic works, miniature paintings and wall tiles.

National Maritime Museum · Past

Over 100 of the world's best space photographs - galaxies, auroras, the Moon and more - shown on glowing lightboxes, from the 17th annual competition.

Design Museum · Past

The first retrospective of filmmaker Wes Anderson, with over 700 storyboards, sketches, puppets, costumes and props spanning three decades of his films.

Serpentine Gallery · Free · Past

In his first Serpentine exhibition, David Hockney invites viewers to slow down and notice the extraordinary in the everyday, including the 90-metre frieze A Year in Normandy.

Tate Britain · Past

British-Jamaican painter Hurvin Anderson's first major solo show: over 80 colour-drenched landscapes and interiors exploring memory, place and belonging.

Tate Modern · Past

A major survey of four decades of Tracey Emin's work across painting, video, textiles, neons, sculpture and installation, with works never shown before.

Courtauld Gallery · Past

Masterpieces from Birmingham's Barber Institute, including works by Hals, Rubens, Turner, Rossetti and Degas, on extended loan during its refurbishment.

Science Museum · Free · Past

Explore how science could transform the way we grow, cook and eat, from a 3,500-year-old loaf to lab-grown meat, across 100+ objects in this family-friendly exhibition.

RAF Museum · Free · Past

Fifty key works by 20th-century British and European artists, marking the museum's 50th anniversary and exploring flight, conflict and RAF operations through art.

Serpentine Gallery · Free · Past

Cecily Brown presents new paintings inspired by Serpentine's location in Kensington Gardens, a site of personal significance to the artist.

Whitechapel Gallery · Free · Past

Argentinian artist Gabriel Chaile's site-specific installation of adobe sculptures holds objects sourced from the East End, evoking an archaeological dig into local memory and identity.

British Museum · Free

Around 120 rare drawings from the 15th and 16th century Low Countries, including Bruegel and van der Weyden, tracing how drawing became an art in its own right.

Design Museum · Free

Free display of four UK research projects showing how design-led innovation tackles housing, healthcare and resources for a sustainable green transition.

Serpentine Gallery

A public art mural by David Hockney presented in Serpentine North Garden, shown alongside his Serpentine North exhibition. Free.

Victoria and Albert Museum · Free

A free display celebrating the innovative techniques and bold visions of 25 women printmakers working from 1900 to the present day.

V&A East Museum · Free

The first edition of V&A East's twice-yearly New Work programme, inviting artists to make site-specific works responding to the making of east London.

Wallace Collection · Free

A free display on how Hertford House became a stage for Anglo-Soviet cultural diplomacy in wartime Britain, hosting major 1942 exhibitions to aid Russia.

Imperial War Museum · Free

As bombs fell on 1940s London, artists responded. Over 45 paintings and drawings, with photographs, film and oral histories, capture a city both familiar and strange.

Victoria and Albert Museum

A behind-the-scenes look at Aardman's stop-motion animation, revisiting Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Morph. At Young V&A.

Victoria and Albert Museum

The UK's first exhibition on Elsa Schiaparelli, tracing the surrealist designer's influence from the 1920s to today and the house's revival under Daniel Roseberry.

Wellcome Collection · Free

Over 150 artworks and objects explore how experiences of ageing across all life stages are shaped by environment, culture and society, and what greater longevity means.

Victoria and Albert Museum

An immersive sound exhibition spanning 125 years of Black music-making in Britain, with over 120 tracks tracing excellence, struggle, resilience and joy.

V&A East Museum

125 years of Black music-making in Britain. An immersive audio experience spanning four continents, telling a story of excellence, struggle, resilience and joy.

Royal Academy of Arts · Free

Diploma Works and treasures from the RA Collection spanning over 300 years, shown free in the historic John Madejski Fine Rooms while the main Collections Gallery is expanded. Closed on select dates (21 Jul, 11 Aug, 4 Sep, 2 Oct, 6 Nov, 4 Dec 2026).

London Museum · Free

A rotating display in the Reflections Room featuring British Romani artists Corrina Eastwood, Delaine Le Bas and Dan Turner, celebrating the livelihoods, creativity and craft of Romani communities alongside a historical timeline from 500 CE to 2022.

Tate Modern · Free

A collection display bringing together works by artists including Abbas Akhavan, Abel Rodríguez and Zheng Bo, exploring the connection between environmental and social justice.

Imperial War Museum

A selection of Dame Vera Lynn's personal objects, including letters, correspondence and uniform items from her recently acquired Second World War archive, on display for 12 months near the entrance to the Second World War Galleries.

London Transport Museum

Over 100 original London Transport posters mark the centenary of art deco, with work by design greats like McKnight Kauffer and Jean Dupas, plus Charles Holden's Tube architecture.

Victoria and Albert Museum · Free

A free display drawn from the V&A's US photography collection, revealing the breadth of the country's photographic traditions from early prints to contemporary work.