Museums Open Tonight (until 20:00+)

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 | Updated 07:00 BST

🏛️ All Museums (10)

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Barbican Centre
#38

Barbican Centre

A concrete citadel for culture: the Barbican folds concert halls, theatres, galleries and a tropical conservatory into a raised ‘city within a city’ built on a ...
Open until 23:00
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British Library
Free
#41

British Library

A national memory palace: 170-plus million items from Magna Carta to Beatles lyrics, housed in a purpose-built red-brick campus by St Pancras. Anyone can browse...
Open until 20:00
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Institute of Contemporary Arts
#75

Institute of Contemporary Arts

A restless laboratory on The Mall since 1946, the ICA mixes exhibitions, performance, talks and an arthouse cinema to test what ‘contemporary’ can be. Expect ri...
Open until 23:00
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The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History
Free
#76

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History

Part cocktail bar, part cabinet of wonders in Hackney. Upstairs: absinthe and oddities; downstairs: a dense, dim grotto of taxidermy, shells, bones, erotica, fo...
Open until 23:00
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South London Gallery
Free
#117

South London Gallery

Free contemporary art across two sites—the main gallery and the former Fire Station—plus a beloved bookshop, café and a weekend-access garden.
Open until 21:00
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Redbridge Museum
Free
#136

Redbridge Museum

Freshly refurbished local-history museum inside Ilford Central Library: clear storytelling on Ilford/Redbridge with family-friendly interactives.
Open until 20:00
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Pushkin House
#152

Pushkin House

Independent cultural centre in Bloomsbury with a lively events programme (talks, book launches, art, film), a well-stocked bookshop and a cosy bar—programming s...
Open until 21:00
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Rose Theatre Exhibition
Free
#179

Rose Theatre Exhibition

A conservation-led display around the archaeological remains of the Rose, the 1587 Bankside playhouse built by Philip Henslowe. Visitors encounter the plan of t...
Open until 21:00
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Brent Museum
Free
#184

Brent Museum

Inside Willesden Green Library, this gallery stitches Brent’s story from prehistory to present with objects you can read close-up: British Empire Exhibition sou...
Open until 20:00
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Institute of Archaeology Collections
#206

Institute of Archaeology Collections

UCL’s teaching-and-research collections: study sets of prehistoric lithics, Roman and Classical ceramics, and global material-culture samples used to train arch...
Open until 21:00