Category: London Museums

Handel Hendrix House, the museum once home to both Handel and Jimi Hendrix, is to start opening late on Fridays for candlelit music-filled evenings. Handel Hendrix House (c) ianVisits Handel’s Georgian home has recently been restored and the after-dark openings

Progress on converting Smithfield’s old Victorian meat market into the new London Museum has taken a step forward with the unveiling of the building’s Foundation Stone. (c) London Museum Principal construction works are now underway on the project, following work

A new museum will be opening in Marble Arch next year, as the Amsterdam based Moco Museum (Modern Contemporary Museum) has taken a lease on three floors of an Oxford Street building. CGI concept – source: planning documents They applied

A large but also very fragile document that can only be seen for a few weeks each year will be displayed next week at the British Museum. The Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies is a Chinese scroll

A small museum in Paddington that celebrates the man who accidentally discovered penicillin is marking its 30th anniversary this month. The Alexander Fleming Museum is, to be honest, not that amazing, being a couple of exhibition rooms, and then the

This autumn will mark 200 years since Charles Dickens, as a twelve year old boy was forced to leave school and do something that he never spoke of, although it laid the foundations for much of his writings as an

When it opens in 2026, the new London Museum wants to have a space filled with old London signs and is now asking the public for donations. The installation, Hanging Out, will aim to celebrate how the capital brings people

Watford Museum will be closing in October for a couple of years as it prepares to move to a new home, as the current building is considered unsuitable to house its growing local history collection. (c) Watford Museum Like most

A new museum could be opening in Marble Arch, as the Amsterdam based Moco Museum (Modern Contemporary Museum) has taken a lease on three floors of an Oxford Street building. CGI concept – source: planning documents The Moco Museum is

Will Gompertz, who is currently Artistic Director at the Barbican and was for many years, the BBC’s Arts Editor has been named as the new director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum. Will Gompertz in the Picture Room at Sir