Welcome to the ianVisits guide to free and cheap lectures, talks, heritage, walks and miscellany happening around London.
Top events in London Today
Normally you need to pay to visit the gardens, but on a few weekends a year, the gardens are free to visit.
10am to 4pm
East Molesey
The two-day festival includes 100+ vintage fashion traders, rare classic cars and more.
10am to 6pm
Kings Cross
The Museum's depot in Acton will be open for three days, giving you the opportunity to explore our collections store, with its treasure trove of over 320,000 objects.
10:30am to 5pm
Acton
A WW2-era history attraction that's open to the public once a month.
10:30am to 4pm
Watford
Explore numerous stalls selling letterpress supplies, type and ornaments, paper, printed items, second-hand books and type specimens and lots more inky goodness.
11am to 4pm
City of London
Once a month, the oldest building in Hackney, St Augustine's Tower is open, so you can climb up to the top.
2pm to 4:30pm
Hackney
Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia.
3pm to 4:30pm
Holborn
Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon
Free
1001 Days in London
Street photographer Steve Hollingshead celebrates this vibrant metropolis with a gallery-filling installation of 1001 individual photographs.
11am to 6pm
Southwark
Closes today
10am to 6pm
Camden
Closes today
Around 120 examples of the fusion between sportswear and fashion from the Westminster Menswear Archive.
11am to 7pm
Camden
Closes today
A large scale new commission from Hong-Kong based artist Zheng Bo, transforming Somerset House’s courtyard into a bamboo garden.
All Day
Strand
Closes today
Be astonished as over 100,000 tulip bulbs erupt in colour in one of the UK’s biggest display of planted tulips.
10am to 4pm
East Molesey
Closes tomorrow
This exhibition finds conversations between various forms of abstraction, symbolism and figuration that were circulating and interacting in the visual culture of Brazil in the mid-20th century.
11am to 6pm
Whitechapel
Closing soon Sun, 5th May
Spanning over 60 years of contemporary sculpture, this exhibition highlights ways in which artists draw on familiar experiences of movement, flux and organic growth.
10am to 6pm
Southwark
Closing soon Sun, 5th May
This exhibition marks the largest exhibition ever mounted in the 40+ year career of world-renowned photographic artist, Edward Burtynsky.
10am to 6pm
Chelsea
Closing soon Mon, 6th May
Explore how music shapes our lives in this interactive exhibition.
10am to 6pm
South Kensington
Closing soon Mon, 6th May
The Pillars of Our Latex House: A thanks to the gutta-percha tree and to those who keep it.
12:30pm to 7pm
Brentford
Closing soon Thu, 9th May
Walking tours of London - today
£26.36
River Thames Foreshore Walk
Find out more about the history of the River Thames with one of our foreshore walks led by community archaeologist Mike Webber
10:30am to 1pm
SouthwarkA walk exploring White City's hidden history as London's go-to venue for exhibitions, entertainment, and the 1908 Olympic Games.
2pm to 4pm Shepherds Bush
