What's On
THE DESIGN MUSEUM
- Monday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Thursday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Friday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Sunday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Founded by Sir Terence Conran in 1989, the Design Museum in Kensington (where it’s been since 2016) is the world’s leading museum dedicated to contemporary design. As well as holding a collection that spans architecture, fashion, furniture, product, graphic design and transport, the museum hosts varied exhibitions that cover all aspects of modern design, from surrealism to Amy Winehouse, sneakers to electronic music and football to Stanley Kubrick.
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
- Monday: 10:00 AM – 5:45 PM
- Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 5:45 PM
- Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 5:45 PM
- Thursday: 10:00 AM – 5:45 PM
- Friday: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:45 PM
- Sunday: 10:00 AM – 5:45 PM
They don’t call the Victoria & Albert Museum the world’s leading museum of art and design for nothing. Its seven floors are full to the brim with original paintings, posters, jewellery, ceramics, sculptures, textiles and more, with the permanent collection numbering more than 2.8 million objects. The V&A has the largest fashion collection in the world, so it’s not surprising that the museum is known for its fashion exhibitions, having hosted blockbuster shows on Alexander McQueen, Christian Dior, menswear, African fashion, kimonos and Balenciaga.
SCIENCE MUSEUM
- Monday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Thursday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Friday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Sunday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Fancy flying with the Red Arrows? Or taking a trip to the stars on an Apollo space mission? A visit to the Science Museum can make those dreams come true, as its seven floors are kitted out with advanced technology and 4D simulators to help bring science to life. The museum’s world class collection includes objects that have helped advance the fields of mathematics, medicine, technology, chemistry, computing, astronomy, space exploration, robotics and more. The museum regularly hosts major exhibitions and also runs a well-regarded Lates series, themed around topics like space, Pride, and Chinese New Year.
CALLY MUNCHY LOUNGE AT THE AFRICA CENTRE
Afro-fusion street food biz Cally Munchy, run by Ebenezer Sogunro, which has been popping up at markets and at festivals across London as well as running a catering operation is taking up residence at The Africa Centre in Southwark for six months. The regular Cally Munchy offering includes dishes like suya steak, spiced chicken, kelewele (Ghanaian seasoned plantain), and jollof ‘n’ peas and the brand’s signature Shi-Tuan chilli sauce, and these will be appearing on the Cally Munchy Lounge menu.
MY NEIGHBOURS THE DUMPLINGS AT SEED LIBRARY
- Monday: 6:00 PM – 1:00 AM
- Tuesday: Closed
- Wednesday: 6:00 PM – 1:00 AM
- Thursday: 6:00 PM – 1:00 AM
- Friday: 6:00 PM – 2:00 AM
- Saturday: 4:00 PM – 2:00 AM
- Sunday: 5:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Shoreditch cocktail spot Seed Library (run by Mr Lyan and one of the best bars in London), has teamed up with My Neighbours The Dumplings for a new bar snack menu, following a collab with Ruben’s Reubens earlier this year. The East London dumpling house is serving up some of its signature dim sum, including crispy prawn wontons with sweet chilli sauce, pork & makrut lime leaf potstickers, prawn har gau, crispy turnip cake with soy cured egg yolk and silken tofu with vegan XO. Seed Library’s drinks menu, currently featuring a salsa margarita and black vinegar gimlet cocktails plus low-intervention wine, craft beer and artisanal sake, will be available alongside those snacks.
CAPTURING THE MOMENT
- Monday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Thursday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Friday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Sunday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
This exhibition at the Tate Modern explores the relationship between painting and photography through some of the most iconic artworks of the modern era, looking at how artists capture moments in time using the paintbrush and the camera. As well as paintings by Pablo Picasso and Paula Rego and photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto and Jeff Wall, the display also includes pieces that blur the lines between the two mediums, like Andy Warhol’s silkscreen prints, Pauline Boty’s pop paintings and Andreas Gurksy’s large-scale photographs.
AS YOU LIKE IT
- Monday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Tuesday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Wednesday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Thursday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Friday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Sunday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Ellen McDougall is directing the final play in the Globe’s 2023 summer season with an all-singing, all-dancing version of As You Like It. One of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies, As You Like It is a tale of romance and redemption, following Rosalind and Celia, who are in disguise and on the run, as encounter many different kinds of love in the Forest of Arden.
This North London branch of Picturehouse is handily located behind Finsbury Park station and just over the road from Rowan’s – ideal for cinema-bowling combo day. It boasts a large mural from British artist Dale Lewis in the lobby; a kitchen; a members’ bar, which shows trailers and shorts on the wall; and seven screens, each with a 4K projector, state-of-the-art sound system and reclining chairs, so you can kick back with extra legroom, whether you’re watching the latest blockbuster or a special season showing.
NASA AT OUTERNET
- Monday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
- Tuesday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
- Wednesday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
- Thursday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
- Friday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
- Saturday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
- Sunday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
See the wonders of space without having to leave London, let alone Earth, by heading to this immersive NASA exhibition at Outernet. The free show features real footage of the galaxy sourced from NASA, as well as other space agencies, which you’ll be able to watch on the four-storey high, 16K wraparound screens from a space station specially created for the experience. If you’ve always fancied being Tim Peake or Neil Armstrong, you won’t wanna miss this.
MORLEY'S AND HEINZ TEAM UP AT THE STANDARD
- Monday: 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM
- Tuesday: 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM
- Wednesday: 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM
- Thursday: 12:00 PM – 1:00 AM
- Friday: 12:00 PM – 1:00 AM
- Saturday: 12:00 PM – 1:00 AM
- Sunday: 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM
South London’s fave chicken shop Morley’s has teamed up with Heinz for a right saucy pop-up at The Standard this summer. The two brands have created the limited edition Morley’s x Heinz Fried Chicken Sauce and this pop-up is the only place to get it, alongside a range of fried chicken specials cooked up at Double Standard just for the occasion. The menu includes a 2-piece Morley’s chicken with ketchup salt, glazed hot wings, popcorn chicken, chicken fillet burger, chicken drumstick with caviar, chicken & waffles with hot honey glaze and a 20 chicken wing tower, with a range of Heinz sauces for dipping. You can finish with caramelised apple donuts, a Mirinda ice cream sundae and a chocolate sundae with ketchup sherbet. And forget grabbing a can, it’s all about pairing your chicken with frozen mango margs, boozy coke floats and vodka-spiked grape sodas. Once you’ve finished your bougie chicken shop date, have a spin on the custom arcade machine to try and score some limited-edition merch.
He’s brought us the Moon and the Earth, and now Luke Jerram is showing us Mars in close-up with his seven-metre model of the Red Planet as part of the Kensington and Chelsea Festival. The artwork features incredibly detailed NASA imagery of the Martian surface, including every crater, valley and mountain, at a scale of 1: 1 million. The model will be accompanied by a soundtrack created by BAFTA and Ivor Novello award winning composer Dan Jones, featuring sounds of people marching and distant bombing, inviting viewers to reflect on the notion of war.
FREDDIE MERCURY | A WORLD OF HIS OWN
- Monday: 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM
- Tuesday: 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM
- Wednesday: 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM
- Thursday: 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM
- Friday: 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM
- Saturday: 12:00 – 5:00 PM
- Sunday: 12:00 – 5:00 PM
Get a glimpse at the public and private life of one of the world’s most legendary musicians at this one-of-a-kind exhibition. For just one month, Sotheby’s will open its galleries to the public and the entire 16,000 square-foot space will be full of art, archival clothing, musical instruments, furniture and jewels that belonged to Freddie Mercury – things that he’d collected over a period of more than 50 years. Plus, more than 1,200 items from Garden Lodge (Mercury’s home) will be displayed throughout the exhibition, including some rarely seen pieces that’ll give visitors an insight into the passions of the iconic frontman.