PlaceConcerts
The Jago
Live bands, DJs and late dancing fill this Kingsland Road venue, where the evening’s promoter and lineup matter more than a fixed genre label.
The London edit
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.
PlaceExhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts
Artist-led exhibitions and free displays share the Royal Academy’s Piccadilly home, with a programme spanning historic art and contemporary practice.
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Queer Britain
LGBTQ+ histories, objects and personal stories are the focus of this museum at Granary Square, close to King’s Cross.
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Museum of Brands
Packaging, advertising and everyday products trace changing consumer culture at this Notting Hill museum, where familiar objects can be as revealing as famous designs.
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Fashion and Textile Museum
Fashion and textile exhibitions occupy the brightly coloured Bermondsey Street museum, with a programme focused on changing displays rather than a permanent collection.
Free entry
PlaceExhibitions
White Cube Bermondsey
Expansive rooms, a courtyard and a specialist bookshop give contemporary art space to breathe at White Cube’s Bermondsey gallery.
Free entry
PlaceExhibitions
White Cube Mason’s Yard
A compact St James’s courtyard leads to White Cube’s two-level gallery, a useful contemporary-art stop within a West End walk.
Free entry
PlaceExhibitions
Drawing Room
Drawing in its broadest sense is the subject of this Bermondsey gallery, from works on paper to installations and experiments with material.
PlaceExhibitions
Keats House
The house where John Keats lived connects the poet’s work with rooms, objects and a garden in Hampstead.
PlaceExhibitions
Crossness Pumping Station
Victorian engineering and richly decorated ironwork make Crossness a distinctive heritage visit on London’s eastern edge.
PlaceExhibitions
Brunel Museum
Rotherhithe’s Brunel Museum tells the story of the Thames Tunnel and the engineering work that changed what could be built beneath the river.
PlaceExhibitions
Fulham Palace
A historic bishop’s residence, museum and garden offer a slower cultural afternoon beside the Thames in Fulham.
PlaceActivities
Chiswick House and Gardens
A Palladian villa sits within landscaped gardens that make Chiswick a destination for architecture, walking and a quieter stretch of west London.
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Garden Museum
Garden history, contemporary art and the plants around us meet in a former church beside Lambeth Palace, with a courtyard garden and café.
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Strawberry Hill House
Horace Walpole’s Gothic villa makes a distinctive west London outing, with theatrical interiors and a garden setting in Twickenham.
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Eltham Palace and Gardens
Medieval royal history and a later Art Deco home meet at Eltham Palace, with gardens that extend the visit beyond the interiors.
Free entry
PlaceActivities
Abney Park
Wooded paths and memorials turn this Stoke Newington cemetery into a place for local history and a quieter walk, with nature and heritage intertwined.
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Highgate Cemetery
Highgate’s wooded cemetery paths, memorial architecture and notable graves offer a reflective north London visit rather than an ordinary park stroll.
Free entry
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Brompton Cemetery
A long central avenue, chapel and densely planted memorial landscape make Brompton Cemetery a peaceful walk through west London history.
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London Wetland Centre
Water birds, hides, gardens and family trails fill this Barnes wetland reserve, offering a different sort of London day outdoors.
Free entry
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Walthamstow Wetlands
Reservoir paths, bird hides and the Engine House café bring wide-open water and wildlife into an east London outing with free general entry.
Free entry
PlaceActivities
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Waterways, gardens, public art and sports venues give the former Olympic site plenty of different ways to spend a day in east London.
PlaceCulture
Daunt Books Marylebone
Travel-minded browsing and oak galleries make Daunt’s Marylebone branch a bookshop to linger in, particularly when planning a journey or looking for a different view of a place.
PlaceCulture
Foyles Charing Cross Road
Specialist books, music departments and a top-floor events space make Foyles’ Charing Cross Road flagship a substantial browse at the edge of Soho.