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The Brown Collection
A collection devoted to Glenn Brown's work offers a concentrated art stop in Marylebone.
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Places worth your time
The museums, market and park behind our London edit.
Explore our growing London selection, with checked practical details and official sources.
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Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology
Archaeological objects make this university museum a focused alternative within a Bloomsbury cultural day.
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Barbican Centre
Concert halls, theatres, cinemas and galleries sit inside one of London’s most distinctive arts complexes, with lakeside walks between performances.
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LSO St Luke’s
The LSO’s Old Street venue brings chamber music, lunchtime recitals and participatory concerts into a former church, with the Jerwood Hall at its centre.
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Village Underground
Shoreditch’s converted warehouse hosts live bands, electronic shows and late club nights, with the programme changing the character of the room.
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The Photographers’ Gallery
Photography exhibitions, a print-sales gallery and a bookshop make this Soho address a focused stop for contemporary image-making.
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Serpentine North
Contemporary art and a café sit beside Kensington Gardens at Serpentine North, a free gallery visit that combines easily with a park walk.
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London Museum Docklands
A former dockside warehouse tells the story of London’s port, including trade, slavery, wartime Docklands and the transformation of Canary Wharf.
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Royal Air Force Museum London
Aircraft and aviation stories fill the RAF Museum’s north London site, with enough ground to cover for a longer museum outing.
Free entry
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Queen’s House
Art, architecture and the Tulip Stairs make the Queen’s House a quieter Greenwich visit beside the larger maritime museums.
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Wigmore Hall
Piano recitals, song and chamber ensembles are the focus at this Marylebone concert hall, with lunchtime and evening programmes throughout the season.
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Kings Place
Live music, podcasts, talks and sound experiments share this canalside arts venue near King’s Cross, with two principal halls offering different listening experiences.
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Wilton’s Music Hall
Cabaret, theatre, comedy and concerts play inside a surviving East End music hall whose layered interior is part of the appeal.
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Troxy
Large-scale gigs and live entertainment occupy Troxy’s Art Deco hall on Commercial Road, east of the central concert circuit.
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EartH
EartH brings a tiered theatre, a standing hall and smaller gathering spaces together for live music, club nights and festivals in Dalston.
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Electric Ballroom
A Camden High Street live venue for touring bands and club events, immediately useful when an evening is built around a particular gig.
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Electric Brixton
Brixton’s former cinema hosts concerts and electronic music nights, with a programme that moves between live performance and late dancing.
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KOKO
The restored Camden theatre hosts live bands, jazz evenings and electronic nights beneath its balconies, with different formats across the week.
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Ministry of Sound
The Gaunt Street club remains a destination for dance-music nights built around DJs, promoters and a multi-room sound experience.
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Phonox
A focused Brixton dancefloor where DJ residencies and longer sets shape the night, with a no-camera approach to the room.
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Night Tales
A Hackney terrace and indoor club make Night Tales work for an early drink that develops into a longer night of music.
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Omeara
Live music and club programming occupy an intimate railway-arch venue in the London Bridge area, within the wider Rae’s complex.
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The Cause
The Cause’s current Dock Road home hosts electronic music and community-led nightlife in east London, with nights that can spread across several spaces.
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Theatre Peckham
New performance, community stories and young talent meet at Theatre Peckham, a south-east London venue with a long-running training programme.