These are all the upcoming exhibitions and things to do in London’s museums and art galleries, happening
within the next eight weeks. The descriptions have been summarised with AI, I’m hoping to cut down on this
in the future as I visit more of them personally.
The exhibit shows how early nurses cared for children at the Foundling Hospital, through photos, letters, and artifacts that reveal their role as the first foster families.
This exhibition merges art with themes of environmental and social justice, showcasing artists who focus on Indigenous knowledge and ecological issues.
Visitors see how stories of pirates changed from comic villains to complex figures, meeting real people like Blackbeard and learning about piracy today.
Letters once sent between plantation owners now help reveal the bravery of enslaved people, with a new film honouring the coal workers who kept ships moving.
Artist Tanoa Sasraku shares films that reflect on oil, war and politics, showing how crude oil shapes power, greed and global struggles in striking ways.
Ten UK and European artists show striking digital works based on innovation, with judges choosing one to win the £10,000 Artist of the Future 2025 prize.
The show presents Gilbert & George’s bold works from 2001 onwards, filled with striking images and vivid colours on themes of hope, fear, sex and death.
Tanoa Sasraku presents works using paper, objects and sculpture to show how oil links to war, nationhood and memory through striking symbols and materials.
Crayons, glue and broken crafts fill a room that looks like a child’s play area, hinting at London’s housing struggle, youth issues and fading honesty in art.
Over 70 striking artworks by Kerry James Marshall bring Black figures to the forefront, mixing history, everyday scenes and bold visions of the future.
Two glowing sculptures use shifting lights and gentle sound to show how people connect, highlighting shared human stories and fresh ideas about identity.
This event looks at Edward Allington’s playful yet thoughtful work, showing how his sculptures and drawings reworked everyday objects and classical forms.
Two recently acquired 17th‑century drawings show touching portraits of family and friends, including Samuel Cooper’s moving study of his cousin’s infant son.
Nine leading artists are releasing signed, numbered prints to raise money for future art projects, each print coming with a certificate of authenticity.
The event shows how freshwater has shaped health and communities across history, with 125 objects, artworks, and new commissions on global water issues.
Peter Doig presents paintings paired with music from his own record and tape collection, played on restored vintage speakers to shape a shared listening space.
The story follows American artist Edwin Austin Abbey, showing his huge study for ‘The Hours’, painted in Gloucestershire for the Pennsylvania State Capitol.
The show brings together bold new pieces and iconic works from the past 40 years, filling vast rooms with painting, sculpture and large-scale installations.
Over 150 works by Nordic artists show themes from Munch’s prints to Cold War angst, Norse myths, mental health struggles and the need to protect nature.
Visitors learn how wars in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus in the 1950s reshaped lives, politics and Britain’s ties with its former colonies after the Second World War.
Visitors can step back into the early 1980s, seeing how daring fashion, bold music and wild creativity shaped young artists who changed pop culture forever.
Máret Ánne Sara brings together reindeer hides, bones, wood, sound and scent to show how energy connects people, animals and the land as one living force.
This event looks at how sign language has shaped identity, showing work by Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader while highlighting the long fight to protect it.
This show sets out how Turner and Constable turned the countryside and sea into art full of feeling, capturing storms, skies and sunlight in very different ways.
Picasso found real inspiration in people like dancers and bullfighters, using their world to shape his own image, as shown through over 45 of his works.
Visitors can wander among huge webs of red and black thread that wrap around everyday objects, while letters of thanks from the public fill a heartfelt new piece.
Experience the drama in Joseph Wright of Derby’s paintings, highlighting faces and objects under dramatic candlelight that echo the techniques of Caravaggio.
Visitors can see props, drawings and behind-the-scenes designs from Wes Anderson’s films, showing how his style and themes have grown over thirty years.
Photographs show transgender women, non-binary and gender non-conforming people at a Tamil festival marking Mohini and Aravan’s story, mixing ritual, joy and grief.
Learners join Dr Antony Makrinos online to study Latin basics, from pronunciation and verbs to syntax and sentence practice, in a friendly beginner session.
A show of drawings by architects, designers and students from many countries, mixing digital work with hand-drawn pieces that show how buildings are imagined today.
Visitors can wander through glowing installations, watch short sci-fi films, create poetry with a quantum twist and dance to DJ sets inspired by the strange links between particles.
Chris Ofili’s mural is a vivid dream-inspired tribute, centred around a poignant image of artist Khadija Saye, reflecting themes of transformation and memory.
