Museums Open Tonight (until 20:00+)

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 ...

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...

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...

Part cocktail bar, part cabinet of wonders in Hackney. Upstairs: absinthe and oddities; downstairs: a dense, dim grotto of taxidermy, shells, bones, erotica, fo...

Free contemporary art across two sites—the main gallery and the former Fire Station—plus a beloved bookshop, café and a weekend-access garden.

Freshly refurbished local-history museum inside Ilford Central Library: clear storytelling on Ilford/Redbridge with family-friendly interactives.

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...

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...

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...

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