Charterhouse are delighted that they are once again able to invite you to join one of the Brothers for a tour with a full history of the site.
Throughout March 2021, Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) will celebrate Women’s History Month with a series of online events exploring the links that our collections and sites have to women’s histories and how these stories are told.
Zoom in to Aldwych disused Tube station without even stepping outside your front door. New tour dates will be on general sale from 12 February on London Transport Museum’s website. Aldwych, originally known as the Strand, is one of London’s most secret places, holding memories of times gone by. Opened to the public in 1907, it was never as heavily used as originally intended and closed nearly 100 years later in 1994.
From its origins in transatlantic slavery through to the involvement of prominent abolitionists, the story of the Krio ties in to the wider themes of the gallery and is central not just to the story of the museum’s building and the surrounding docks but to the story of London itself.
Explore the history of Greenwich with curators, conservators, storytellers, storekeepers and mudlarks.
The mystery surrounding the Havering Hoard has been kept under wraps for longer than intended but now the Museum of London Docklands can confirm that London’s largest ever Bronze Age hoard will go on display to the public for the very first time from 11 September.
Bring the kids to Cutty Sark for an action-packed day out on one of the world's most famous ships.
A month-by-month journey through Picasso’s ‘year of wonders’
1932 was an intensely creative period in the life of the 20th century’s most influential artist.
Together the V&A and the Royal Opera House present a landmark exhibition exploring a vivid story of opera from its origins in late-Renaissance Italy to the present day.
From gruesome ghost tours to spooky sleepovers, Historic Royal Palaces has something for everyone this Halloween.
Join in for a family evening of Halloween fun as you explore Dr Johnson's House at night.
Enjoy a spectacular variety of events and activities as the City celebrates its Roman heritage.
A rare opportunity to see inside London Transport Museum’s Depot in Acton, West London, will take place on 22 and 23 April 2017. Transport enthusiasts and family visitors to the Museum’s Secrets of the Underground Open Weekend will have the chance to explore this working Museum Depot, a treasure-house of over 320,000 artefacts from London’s transport history and which is usually closed to the public.
Over the 2017 Easter weekend(13 – 16 April), the Royal Borough of Greenwich will host the Rendez-vous Tall Ships Regatta 2017.
Queer British Art explores how artists expressed themselves in a time when established assumptions about gender and sexuality were being questioned and transformed.
Culture Breaks is a unique holiday experience for history and food fans. Visit the extraordinary historic palaces and explore the theme of royal food and drink in style.
Step back into 1299 and the palace of King Edward I, Hammer of the Scots. Travel back in time to a world of chivalrous knights and beautiful ladies, troublesome lords and royal prisoners. There are money problems at home, too, as the King leads his armies off to war.
Breadcrumbs is a new start up that offer treasure hunts around museums in London via clues to your phone. Cryptic Clues lead you around the permanent collections of museums as you hunt for objects to solve riddles.
Focused around recently acquired drawings by painter Graham Sutherland this exhibition explores artists reactions to the London Blitz.
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london
On Friday 19 January 1917 an enormous explosion occurred at a large munitions factory in Silvertown, located in the borough of Newham.
Death, disease, love and loss – explore 300 years of secrets on a spooky tour through the shadowy world of Kensington Palace after dark.
Spend Christmas with King Richard III, Queen Anne Neville, and the knights and ladies of medieval England.
Jesters and minstrels add to the entertainment.
Not just a prison and a fortress, the Tower was a palace fit for royal celebration.
But will it be a winter of discontent?
Royal Armouries, the national museum of arms and armour and Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity that cares for the Tower of London, are working to transform part of the top floor of the White Tower into Armoury in Action, a family friendly offer revealing the fascinating story of arms and the armoury at the Tower. From shooting arrows, assembling firearms to brandishing swords, a thousand years of history at the Tower of London will be brought to life in this exciting, hands-on experience.
Explore the weapons, skills and people from the Norman to Victorian period through a mix of historic objects, audio visual displays and hands-on interactive stations; a truly engaging experience for all the family.
The White Tower was constructed under William the Conqueror’s orders and a Norman master mason explains the building of the White Tower, a fortress which towered over London for centuries and has become one of the UK’s most prominent landmarks. A medieval longbowman explains the different types of arrows. Have a go at drawing back a bow to feel the strength and training required to shoot this powerful weapon. Find out more about the skill of the armourers at the Tudor court and have a go at dressing Henry VIII in his armour. Henry VIII’s beautifully ornate armours are on display at the Tower, almost 500 years after they were made!
An English Civil War artillery captain guides visitors through the process of firing a cannon, where they can have a go themselves on a half-sized replica. Follow a Napoleonic War training manual while sharpening sword skills against cabbages in an immersive AV interactive. Finally a Victorian Superintendent of Firearms from the Ordnance Office invites families to design their own musket and choose which technological developments might improve their results at target practice. Friendly mouse characters guide younger children through the centuries from Norman to Victorian.
LATES mashes up live acting, special effects and intriguing storytelling with wit, humour, and plenty of edge of the seat surprises for an afterhours experience like no other!
Before descending into the bowels of the Dungeon, steel your nerves with an authentic Victorian cocktail served by a darkly mischievous barmaid in the decadent Gin Palace Bar.
No trip through London’s dark history can begin without getting fitted by the Tailor, who will hand select an accessory* for you to wear for your journey, perhaps a feather boa for you sir?
After being fitted by the Tailor it's time to leave the modern, working world behind and embark on a thrill filled journey through 1000 years of London's dark past – guided by a cast of London’s infamous rogues and villains.
Meet Sweeney Todd and his evil sidekick Mrs Lovett, escape the Plague ridden streets of 1665 and visit Jack the Ripper’s favoured haunt, the Ten Bells Pub in Whitechapel, finally face your fears on the drop ride before a visit to The Dungeon Tavern.
LATES includes, a Victorian Gin cocktail on arrival, an item of clothing from our dress up wardrobe*, an after-hours adults only tour of the London Dungeon including 11 live shows and Drop Dead Drop Ride, pies in Mrs Lovett's pie shop and a visit to The Dungeon Tavern**.
Explore the development of the festive shopping period - from window displays and advertising to the gifts given and received by Queen Victoria at Christmas time – in this special Brunchtime lecture with historian Professor Mark Connelly.
Tickets: £15 / £12 Historic Royal Palaces members, including a glass of bucks fizz
A sure fire way to get you and your family in the festive mood!
Glide around Hampton Court’s famous ice rink, with the palace’s iconic Tudor facade providing a suitably magnificent backdrop to this magical riverside setting.
Tickets: £13.50 Adults / £11.50 Students, Concessions & 12 – 16 years / £9.50 Under 12s / £38.00 Family
The ice rink returns to the famous dry moat at the Tower of London, providing one of the country’s most atmospheric skating destinations.
Skate in the heart of the City while enjoying the majestic views of the Tower, before heading to the on-site café for warming refreshments!
Join the Tower’s Yeoman Warders on an exclusive twilight tour of the Tower. Take in world famous sights such as Traitor’s Gate, the scaffold site and the Bloody Tower, and be appalled and amazed by tales of prisoners and past residents.
After two sold out runs NIGHTWATCHERS will return to the Tower of London November 2016.
After-hours this place is off limits to most people, but not to us Operative 341. This will be your patch. The people here, your business…
NIGHTWATCHERS is an after-hours immersive experience at the Tower of London, directed by award-winning digital theatre company ANAGRAM.
Step into a shadowy world of state surveillance, where messages and phone calls lead you around one of our most notorious prisons; this is your induction into the art of covert investigation. The story dips between contemporary London and the most dramatic years of the Elizabethan secret service.
While faith, violence and the invisible lines between truth and justice collide, you must find your way, guided by the stories of code-breakers, law enforcers and radical religious extremists.
In a climate of global insecurity, who watches the watchers?
http://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/whats-on/nightwatchers/#gs.WA0APOU
The Night Museum invites nocturnal visitors to accompany them on a programme of night walks, talks, performances, artist bars and journeys into the dark heart of the city. An eclectic and magical series of events will be held in unusual and hidden spaces surrounding the museum, including the Roman City Wall, the Barber Surgeons' Garden, St Botolph Without Aldersgate and Postman's Park.
The evening includes:
In Dark City: London after the Apocalypse, Dr Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck, University of London) will explore the post-apocalyptic London imaginary, from H G Wells, Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing, to the disturbing urban fantasies of contemporary writers such as China Miéville and Alan Moore.
In Night. London. 1616, writer and academic Matthew Beaumont (author of Nightwalking) will present a thought experiment that evokes what it would be like to wake in the night and walk through the streets of London before the era of public lighting.
Join Rosie Oliver and Dotmaker Tours on a listening tour of the London night. From the bells that mark the passing hours to the hum of buildings at sleep, tune into the City’s nocturnal soundscape and rediscover lost and forbidden sounds.
Starts at 8pm.
Performance by Musarc
Musarc, one of London’s most progressive and experimental choirs, will reference "when night makes a weird sound of its own stillness" (Percy Bysshe Shelley), creating a magical atmosphere where the senses are heightened and darkness prevails. Performances at 8.15pm and 9.20pm. Meeting point: St. Botolph Without Aldersgate.
The memorial to heroic self-sacrifice
Historian Dr John Price will tell the story of Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in London’s Postman’s Park, revealing the story of the memorial and how artist and radical socialist George Frederick Watts realised his ambition to commemorate ordinary people who died saving the lives of others.
In the darkness they swing their manes like pendulums
Mythical creatures will stalk the night in two specially commissioned performances by artist Nicky Deeley, with percussion by Tazelaar Stevenson. Inspired by H G Wells’ The Time Machine and 60s sci-fi film Quatermass and the Pit, two species will engage in a rite of exchange and ingestion.
