The Great Arch is the true story of Danish architect Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, an unknown talent who wins a major French competition to design the Grande Arche in Paris. In this film, director Stéphane Demoustier weaves together the vision of an architect with conflicting politics.
Join creative leads from LAIKA, the BAFTA®-award-winning and Oscar®-nominated studio responsible for some of the most beloved animated films of the past two decades, including Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings
Offers simple, genuine British and continental food freshly prepared on the premises by our chef. A range of sandwiches, baguettes, salads and wraps are available during the day, as well as pizzas, Cornish pasties, home-made soups, pastas dishes, lasagnes and quiches.
The café serves a variety of hot and cold food options, baked goods and barista coffee alongside a selection of seasonal hot drinks. For those on the go, a range of fresh sandwiches and cakes are available to take away and enjoy in the park.
This free exhibition aims to break through the traditional perception of embroidery as merely a 'skill' or an 'appendage of images'. It explores how needlework itself can become an independent aesthetic subject and a spiritual expression.
Join one of our volunteer guides on this tour and discover the origins of the museum while learning about the fascinating treasures held in the V&A’s extensive collections.
Discover highlights from the museum's renowned Theatre and Performance collections in this guided tour
Join volunteer guides and discover the fascinating garments and fashion-related objects that help shape the V&A’s rich collection.
Join V&A volunteer guides for an architectural tour of their South Kensington building, which will take you through the history and setting of their collections.
An hour-long tour of the museum's most iconic specimens, from the world’s most complete fossil stegosaur to an infamous gorilla.
A special tour package that combines the Architecture of the Natural History Museum Tour with a behind-the-scenes library session, where you’ll get to view treasured archive materials up close.
Join 30-minute walking tours with the Science Museum’s experienced volunteers and discover the hidden stories behind the museum’s most iconic objects and galleries.
Spanning many periods, styles and techniques, this display brings together works from the Albion Art Collection, inviting visitors to look closely and reflect on jewellery’s emotional and visual impact, and the role beauty plays.
Bringing audiences together with leading and emerging artists and designers through live performance, film, installation, debate, DJs and more. Friday Late is free and drop-in.
A free exhibition examining how science can help us find more sustainable ways to grow and produce, purchase and cook, eat and enjoy food to help protect the planet.
PLATFORM is an annual display dedicated to showcasing contemporary design practice. Opening in February 2026, the second edition in the series will present the fascinating work of designer Simone Brewster.
The biggest movies with the best soundtracks - experience classic films with live orchestral accompaniment in the spectacular surroundings of the Royal Albert Hall.
Step into director Wes Anderson’s meticulously crafted worlds through drawing in this workshop exploring the filmmaker's signature sense of scale, symmetry, and storytelling.
What if the design and construction of buildings were shaped by local, climate-resilient, mixed-species forest?
This thought-provoking free photography exhibition reveals the fragile beauty of the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, and the threats to its rich wildlife.
Involving more than 120 artists, craftspeople and self-taught makers from across Japan, Hyakkō is a celebration of contemporary Japanese craft aesthetics.
Photography books delight and inspire filmmaker Sofia Coppola. For this display, she personally selected her favourite volumes. Visitors can turn their pages, immersing themselves in images that have helped shape Coppola's singular vision.
Discover the story of Punjabi princess and suffragette icon, Sophia Duleep Singh and five women who shaped her extraordinary life, in a new exhibition at Kensington Palace for 2026.
Marking 250 years since the birth of John Constable, this free display explores his collaboration with printmaker David Lucas in making the English Landscape print series and features Constable’s paintings alongside the prints they inspired.
