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Family Fun: Drawing from Life

6th Dec
11am-12:30pm & 2:30pm-4pm
Leighton House and Sambourne House
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Join us for a special family-friendly life drawing workshop to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Only £5!

Family Fun: Storytelling and draw along with Nadine Kaadan

22nd Nov
11am - 12:30pm & 2:30-4pm
Leighton House and Sambourne House
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Join this fun, imaginative workshop where families will take part in life-drawing activities and draw-along challenges, to co-create a final illustration exploring the meaning of 'peace'. Only £5!

Family Trails at the Science Museum

Science Museum
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Go on a journey of discovery and exploration around the Science Museum.

Fashion

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V&A South Kensington
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Spanning five centuries, the Fashion collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of dresses in the world.

Image credit: 2B Or Not 2B Collective at the National Gallery. Photo: Hydar Dewachi

Fashion Life Drawing: Blitz Club

6th Feb
6pm-7:30pm
Design Museum
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Join us for a Friday night life drawing session celebrating the fashion of the Blitz Club in the 80s.

Film Music Gala

30th May 2026
3pm & 7:30pm
Royal Albert Hall
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Join an epic journey through sensational soundtracks, depicting the action-packed thrills of Mission: Impossible, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park; the fantasy and magic of Star Wars, Harry Potter and E.T and more!

Fixing Our Broken Planet Gallery

Open daily from 3rd April.
10:00am - 5:50pm
Natural History Museum
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The Museum is excited to finally share Fixing Our Broken Planet, their first new permanent gallery since 2016! Explore the biggest challenges facing the planet and discover science-backed, hopeful solutions that will help us to create a more sustainable world.

Flight Gallery

Daily
10am-6pm
Science Museum
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From mankind's earliest dreams of flying to the wide-body aeroplanes of today, discover the amazing story of flight. Overhead walkways allow you to get up close to planes suspended in the air while you learn about the incredible people who led this innovation in transport.

Footways - exploring London on foot

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Why not plan your visit to South Ken using the Footways walking map available at railway stations and online? You can plan your route away from the busy roads and discover a quiet and alternative side to London.

French Courses: Twice a Week

Starting 24th March
Institut français
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Don’t think twice! Learn French twice a week at the Institut français and achieve great results!

French Film Festival London 2025

12th–23rd Nov
Various times
Institut français
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With many UK premieres, the selection showcases the variety of voices, forms and budgets that altogether represent the wealth and diversity of French cinema production.

Future Observatory: Tools for Transition

Sept 2025 - Aug 2026
Design Museum
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In this free display, discover four research projects from across the UK that are driving change in housing, healthcare, local planning and resource management.

Future of Food

24th July-4th Jan 2026
10am-6pm
Science Museum
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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.

Gallery Hire at Serpentine

Serpentine
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Available for corporate and private hire, Serpentine South Gallery and Serpentine North Gallery and the Magazine restaurant are contemporary art spaces in which to hold beautiful events.

Gazette Brasserie

Mon & Tue: 5pm – 10.30pm Wed to Sun: 10am – 10.30pm
Institut français
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Gazette Brasserie is the perfect venue for coffee meet-ups, quick lunches, pre-cinema drinks and nibbles or a cosy dinner at the Institut français in London.

Get active: New cycle route and walking tour

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Footways London map highlights quiet and characterful walking routes so you can explore Kensington at a different pace. The paper maps are available at some Central Network Rail stations or plan your quiet route via the new interactive map with geolocation

Get active: Take a stroll around 'Albertopolis'

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
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Explore this cultural district and discover the history of the area with this free walking tour from Go Jauntly, curated by the Royal Geographical Society as part of the programme for Kensington + Chelsea Art Week.

Ghost Objects: Summoning Leighton's Lost Collection

11th Oct-1st March 2026
10am- 5:30pm
Leighton House and Sambourne House
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Four missing objects from Leighton's original collection reappear as life-size paper sculptures, created by celebrated international artist, Annemarieke Kloosterhof.

Giants of Today Trail

Natural History Museum
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From hefty herbivores to jungle jumbos, discover who's topping the charts when it comes to being the biggest, the tallest and the heaviest of them all. Follow the trail to meet some of world's biggest animals and to find out all about the highs and lows that come with being so big.

Give the Gift of Music

Royal College of Music
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A perfect gift for any music lover is the Membership of the Royal College of Music Friends scheme. In addition to priority booking and access to an exclusive programme of Friends events, they will receive regular advance info about RCM events while showing support for young musical talent.

Give us your views: Climate change in South Kensington

Discover South Kensington
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Do you spend a lot of time in the area? Are you concerned about climate change in South Kensington? Share your views in our survey. Discover South Kensington's South Ken ZEN+ programme is seeking input from locals to make our neighborhood greener and more resilient.

Go back in time with My Dino Mission AR

Free downloadable app
Natural History Museum
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Combining the latest augmented reality technology with STEM skills, children can recognise a dinosaurs’ species, what it eats, likes and needs to survive. Young explorers can care for and capture fun photos of themselves interacting with their new dinosaur friend in the backdrop of their home or back garden. Age 7-10

Google Arts & Culture: Serpentine

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Serpentine
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Championing new ideas in contemporary art since it opened in 1970, Serpentine has presented pioneering exhibitions of 2,263 artists over 45 years, showing a wide range of work from emerging practitioners to the most internationally recognised artists and architects of our time. Explore more online.

Google Arts & Culture: The Science Museum

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Science Museum
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Striving to be the best place in the world for people to enjoy science, the Science Museum's world-class collection forms an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical achievements from across the globe. Explore the museum's exhibitions and online collections.