Things to do in London Today

What’s on in London today

Welcome to the IanVisits guide to free and cheap lectures, talks, heritage, walks and miscellany happening around London.


Top events in London Today

Watch a procession of clowns arriving for their annual church service.

 3pm to :

 Hackney

One of the strangest, most twisted films of the silent era, this is the story of a man who relives the greatest humiliation of his life, day after day, in front of a paying public.

 4pm to :

 Barbican

Monthly(ish) open days at 250 acres of the estate originally laid out by Capability Brown.

 1pm to 5pm

 Reigate

A monthly opening of the Victorian museum of industrial testing equipment.

 11am to 5pm

 Southwark

London’s newest specialist event in all things small. We gather together the top craftsmen from around the globe who specialise in dolls houses & miniatures.

 11am to 5pm

 Wapping

Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon

Prepare for the unknown – on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of ‘Spanish Flu’, this display explores how a future epidemic might hit London.

 10am to 6pm

 Barbican

Closes today

Featuring over fifty works from across the world, some of which have never been on display before, Gainsborough’s Family Album charts his career from youth to maturity.

10am to 6pm

 Soho

Closes today

See how Repton’s career unfolded in this special exhibition which brings together Red Books and watercolour paintings, many never publicly displayed before, to celebrate the bicentenary of his death.

 10:30am to 5pm

 Southwark

Closes today

The uncompromising sculpture that emerged in Britain after the Second World War

 10am to 6pm

 Pimlico

Closes tomorrow

A collection of US tabloid front covers, enlarged to two metres high, featuring a headline that relates to Donald Trump’s business dealings, political aspirations or personal life.

 11am to 7pm

 Southwark

Closing soon Thu, 7th Feb

Disrupting the Futurecity explores the way in which international artists are positively disrupting our cities, shaping the way we inhabit and engage with public space.

 11:30am to 6pm

 Soho

Closing soon Sun, 10th Feb

Discover the expressive sensitivity and immediacy of Lorenzo Lotto’s portraits in the first UK exhibition of its kind

 10am to 6pm

 Trafalgar Square

Closing soon Sun, 10th Feb

Marcus Lyall: Portrait of Jeremy Bentham

Come face-to-face with the illusion of a living Jeremy Bentham: philosopher, social reformer and inventor of the Panopticon.

 9am to 7pm

 Euston

Closing soon Mon, 11th Feb

A landmark exhibition on the history, art, literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England.

 11am to 5pm

 Camden

 Ends on Tue, 19th Feb

One of the last Pre-Raphaelites, Edward Burne-Jones brought imaginary worlds to life in awe-inspiring paintings, stained glass windows and tapestries

 10am to 6pm

 Pimlico

 Ends on Sun, 24th Feb