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Discovery Days: Spring Surprises

4th-6th April
11am-3pm
Hyde Park
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Celebrate the changing of the season with the family and get outdoors to enjoy fun nature-inspired activities suitable for the whole family to enjoy.

Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance

Until 11th June
10am-5:45pm
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The first major UK exhibition to explore the exceptional talents of the Renaissance master Donatello, arguably the greatest sculptor of all time. Experience a fresh vision of the artist and his influence on subsequent generations.

Earth Perspectives by Olafur Eliasson

Serpentine
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The Serpentine launches 'Earth Perspectives', a new artwork conceived by Olafur Eliasson for Earth Day 2020, comprising of nine images featuring nine different views over the Earth.

Easter Family Fun: Be a Palaeontologist

3rd-16th April
11am-4pm
Natural History Museum
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Join the Museum for a day of activities that will challenge the way your little ones think about the natural world - its past, present and future - and inspire their curiosity and fascination.

Echo and the Bunnymen

18th Sept
7:30pm
Royal Albert Hall
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Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant, otherwise known as Echo and the Bunnymen, return to the Hall in September 2023 to perform their hugely critically-acclaimed 1984 album Ocean Rain in full

Energy Hall

Daily
10am-6pm (last entry 5:15pm)
Science Museum
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Trace the remarkable story of steam and how it shaped the world we live in today. Steam has been the driving force behind British industry for 300 years. Without it, the Industrial Revolution could never have happened. Even now, steam provides 75% of the electricity we use every day.

Engineer your future

Daily
10am-6pm
Science Museum
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Could you shape the world we live in? Find out if you've got the problem-solving, big-thinking, team-working skills to be a globe-trotting engineer of tomorrow.

Europe 1600-1815

Daily
Daily: 10am-5:45pm - Friday: 10am–10pm
V&A
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Showcasing over 1100 objects from the V&A’s collections of 17th- and 18th-century European art and design in a suite of seven galleries.

Explore RCM Exhibitions Online

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Royal College of Music
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The Royal College of Music was the first music conservatoire to partner with the Google Cultural Institute, opening up collections to audiences around the world. The museum and library curate a range of interactive digital exhibitions, drawing on key social and historical themes to enrich our understanding of music history.

Explore the Galleries

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Natural History Museum
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From dinosaurs to mammals, explore the amazing diversity of life on Earth. Follow our planet's evolution and walk beneath a 25.2-metre blue whale skeleton. Take a journey through our spectacular Earth sculpture and find out about the tremendous forces that shape our planet. See scientists at work in the Darwin Centre and enjoy the tranquil habitats of our Wildlife Garden.

Explore the Natural History Museum from your home

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Natural History Museum
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The Natural History Museum's virtual tour allows you to explore 14 exhibitions and access 300,000 specimens. Zoom in on the tiny details of the main hall's gilded ceiling or take a closer look at the marine reptiles discovered by Mary Anning. Enjoy a day at the Museum without even having to leave your home!

Explore the V&A Collections

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The V&A is launching Explore the Collections, a new digital platform that enables everyone from around the world to search, explore and discover over 1.2m objects from the museum’s collections.

Explorer Trail at the Design Museum

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Design Museum Kensington
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The trail will include creative looking, thinking and drawing activities as you explore the museum and exhibitions. The trail asks the user to consider what it's like to be a designer, maker and user of some of the wonderful objects in the collection. Takes 30 - 40 minutes.

Exploring Space Gallery Tour

Daily
10am-6pm
Science Museum
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Discover space firsts such as Sputnik, Yuri Gagarin and the work of Sergei Koralev. Delve into an amazing history, bringing to life objects from our Exploring Space gallery.

Fake Lates

29th March
6:30pm-10pm
Science Museum
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From conspiracy theories to deep fakes, cryptocurrency and NFTs, counterfeits to AI art. As our world becomes increasingly digital and feels less tangible where do we draw the line on what we consider real and fake? And how do we know who to trust?

False Flags

27th Feb-28th April
11am-5pm
The Royal Society of Sculptors
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Polly Morgan’s new work explores appropriation in the animal world; how colour, pattern and iridescence are used to dazzle and misdirect. In the newly reopened Dora House.

Families Workshop: Making and Painting - Natural Inks

22nd April
10:30am-4pm
V&A
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Artist Nikki Gardham will guide you as a family to develop your own ‘live’ inks using spices and ordinary household ingredients. Get inspired by the collection to get thinking about images of nature, composition, and design.

Families Workshop: Zines with Printmaking!

15th April
10:30am-4pm
V&A
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Join this free workshop with Khidr Collective to explore how to make a DIY zine! Get inspired by people’s experiences and objects from the V&A’s collection to to fill your zine with images and text celebrating Ramadan, belonging and joy!

Family Fun: Tile Painting

29th April
2-4pm
Leighton House and Sambourne House Museum
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Come and have fun with this creative and practical workshop, painting your own tile inspired by the patterns and techniques of Turkish Iznik art and design. Tiles will be glazed and fired after the workshop, for collection from Leighton House.

Fashion

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Spanning five centuries, the Fashion collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of dresses in the world.

Field Notes

Until 31st Aug
10am-5:30pm
V&A
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What can the forest teach us? That is a key questions that runs through this display of contemporary design projects. This display is part of Make Good: Rethinking Material Futures, a ten-year project supported by John Makepeace OBE.

Films in Concert

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Royal Albert Hall
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Experience cinema’s most iconic films including Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, with the score performed live by an orchestra in the spectacular surroundings of the Royal Albert Hall.

Five Brilliant Online History Resources

Kensington Palace
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Historic Royal Palaces has lots of ideas and resources online to help your children explore history without having to step outside the front door.

Flight Gallery

Daily
10am-6pm
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From mankind's earliest dreams of flight to the wide-body aeroplanes of today, discover the absorbing story of flight. Overhead walkways allow you to get up close to aeroplanes suspended in the air. Examine exhibits from the pioneer days of aviation, including Amy Johnson's Gipsy Moth and the Vickers Vimy, which first crossed the Atlantic in 1919.