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Wire sculpture of a baboon perched on a wall, part of the Royal Beasts exhibition at the Tower of London

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Tower of London · City of London

Royal Beasts

Now showingPermanent collection·Ticketed — see website

Tales of the exotic animals once kept in the Tower's Royal Menagerie, from lions and bears to a polar bear that fished in the Thames.

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On now All of October 2026

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This Must Be the Place: Artists for Whitechapel Gallery

Whitechapel Gallery

Film still from Gaby Sahhar, Abstraction Belongs to Us, 2026

Screen Portraits: Whitechapel Gallery Artists – Part 2

Whitechapel Gallery

Cecilia Vicuña, Quipu menstrual (2006–2024)

Cecilia Vicuña: Living Threads

Whitechapel Gallery

All exhibitions in London this month Coming up in November

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The Art Nouveau facade of the Whitechapel Gallery

Whitechapel Gallery

ArtFree11 min walk

Tate Modern seen from across the Thames, the former Bankside Power Station

Tate Modern

ArtFree20 min walk

Image credits

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Royal BeastsCourtesy of Tower of London
Screen Portraits: Whitechapel Gallery Artists – Part 2Gaby Sahhar, Abstraction Belongs to Us, 2026. Film still. Courtesy the artist.
Cecilia Vicuña: Living ThreadsCourtesy of Whitechapel Gallery
Tower of LondonBob Collowan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Whitechapel GalleryGrindtXX / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tate ModernAcabashi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

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