Free entry
PlaceExhibitions
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.
Good things are out there
Follow your curiosity.
A name, a neighbourhood, a mood. Start somewhere.
PlaceCulture
Tate Britain
British art beside the Thames at Millbank, with paintings and sculpture that reward a slower circuit of the galleries.
Free entry
PlaceCulture
Wellcome Collection
Free exhibitions at the meeting point of health, art and lived experience, with a Reading Room that invites a less formal kind of visit.
Free entry
PlaceActivities
Tate Modern
Modern and contemporary art on Bankside. The collection is free; choose a paid exhibition only if it is the reason you want to go.
PlaceCulture
Whitechapel Gallery
An East End art institution with free displays, a bookshop worth lingering in, and Thursday evenings that carry on until nine.
PlaceActivities
Hayward Gallery
Contemporary art in a building that asks to be looked at too. Make a current exhibition the centre of a South Bank afternoon.
GuideCulture
London: three free collections to get curious in
An architect’s house, a mansion full of art and a meeting point for health and culture. Three free museum choices beyond an all-day blockbuster.
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.
EventExhibitions
Robert Ryman: The Real Thing
More than 60 works invite a slow look at white paint, square supports, brushwork and the way a painting occupies a room.
EventActivities
Spirit Moves Us with Seyi Adelekun
Movement, sound and herbal rituals turn the Barbican Conservatory into a space for exploring Black ecology and collective wellbeing.
PlaceOutdoors
Richmond Park
A large royal park offers longer walks and open landscapes on London's southwestern edge.
PlaceCulture
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.
PlaceOutdoors
Russia Dock Woodland
Former dockland becomes a wooded walking route in Rotherhithe, with waterways and paths replacing a more familiar central-London scene.
PlaceConcerts
Royal Albert Hall
A monumental concert hall in South Kensington, where the programme is the starting point for choosing a memorable evening.
RestaurantLondon
The Wolseley
A grand former showroom on Piccadilly makes the dining room as much a destination as the meal.
RestaurantLondon
The River Café
Italian cooking beside the Thames makes a Hammersmith riverside walk part of the occasion.
EventActivities
Tom at the Farm (Tom na Fazenda)
A visit to a boyfriend’s funeral becomes a confrontation with secrecy, desire and violence in this Portuguese-language stage production.
EventConcerts
DIY Alive 2026
Sports Team, Nell Mescal, Walt Disco, FEET and more fill EartH’s three spaces for a day of live music and conversations.
EventConcerts
IMANU, ring noord, anu, latesleeper
IMANU, ring noord, anu and Latesleeper share a late Village Underground bill, bringing several approaches to bass-heavy electronic music into one room.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Cecilia Vicuña: Foraging Quipu
A free stop in Whitechapel Gallery’s autumn programme, showing Cecilia Vicuña’s Foraging Quipu in Gallery 4.
PlaceConcerts
London Coliseum
A grand theatre near Trafalgar Square, with opera and other performances filling a building that makes arrival part of the occasion.
PlaceExhibitions
Crossness Pumping Station
Victorian engineering and richly decorated ironwork make Crossness a distinctive heritage visit on London’s eastern edge.
PlaceOutdoors
Gunnersbury Park
Parkland and a historic estate provide space for a longer west London walk.
EventConcerts
Le Boom + AE MAK
Le Boom brings live electronics and spoken-word energy to a Sunday show, with AE_MAK joining the bill.