Annika’s Top Tips
A selection of events and items of interest. I haven’t done all of them, but they sound inspiring, please check dates, opening times etc beforehand.
Blockbuster Ideas:
British Museum – Ashurbanipal ends 21/2/19
British Library – Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms ends 19/2/19
National Gallery – Courtauld Impressionists ends 20/1/19, Mantegna & Bellini ends 27/1/19
National Portrait Gallery – Gainsborough Family Album end 3/2/19
Royal Academy – Renzo Piano ends 20/1/19, Klimt / Schiele ends 3/2/19 and New extension
Tate Britain – Edward Burne-Jones ends 29/2/19
Tate Modern – Annie Albers ends 27/1/19 and Tania Bruguera in the Turbine Hall
Westminster Abbey – new upstairs Queen’s Gallery and David Hockney stained window
“Off piste” Ideas:
Somerset House – Acute Art
Strawberry Hill – Lost Treasures ends 24/2/2
Science Museum – The Last Tsar: Blood and Revolution
V&A – Gallery talks on Thursdays at 1pm, Conservation Studio tours – 2nd and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 11am, book via Contact Centre ext.2000
Soane Museum – Wed-Sun guided tours upstairs at 1.15, 2pm prepare for queue, candlelight evening events
Kings Cross – Heatherwick’s new Coal Drops Yard
Garden Museum – Humphrey Repton ends 3/2/19
London Walks – Hampstead Spies 3rd Sunday of the month
Southside House – Candle lit tours, classic English afternoon tea
Charterhouse – tour with Brothers
Somerset House – studio tours every 3rd Saturday week of month at 12.15, 13.15, 14.15, 15.15
Kew Garden – Refurbished Temperate House