Listings in category "Exhibition"

In the past, medicines were made from plants, animals and even precious stones.
Learn how 'drugs' such as foxglove, myrrh and unicorn horns were used.
Examine real herbs in the attic space, originally used by the apothecary of St Thomas' Hospital.

Photographer John Davies explores how London’s major arterial roads have changed over the past 10 years in this small photographic display in our entrance hall. 

The Natural History Museum's four-part display Art of India tackles the fascinating subject of botanical and zoological drawings commissioned and collected by members of the East India Company in the 18th and 19th centuries. Aside from its size, this display is a rather missed opportunity to explore the subjects of colonialism and cultural exchange in greater depth.

Kaffe Fassett – A Life in Colour’ is a celebration of the work of one of the great practitioners of contemporary craft. This exhibition, the first in London since Kaffe Fassett’s record-breaking show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1988, features over 100 works within a dramatic installation designed by Sue Timney.

Life and Death: Pompeii and Herculaneum at the British Museum is a major new exhibition on two of the most important towns that were subsumed in the pyroclastic flows from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. It provides a detailed, honest and frank insight not only into citizens' lives, but also into their lifestyles and attitudes. 

This small display announces our new Many East Ends project and invites Londoners to get involved. Through Many East Ends, the Museum aims to work with Londoners to explore the East End, its past, present and future. 

Walter Sickert’s painting The Gallery of the Old Bedford is an evocative depiction of a music hall. This display brings together Sickert’s paintings with objects and ephemera from the V&A’s collections to explore the culture of the music halls. At the heart of the story are the women performers.

Relive last year’s summer of sport in a free display within the Galleries of Modern London. Hear personal accounts from those who attended and were involved in the Games, and see a selection of objects and costumes from London 2012, many on view for the first time since the close of the summer spectacular.

This important exhibition makes the astonishing science behind pain research intelligible to all. Through objects, expertise and individual case studies, Pain Less will make you think again about that twinge in your knee or that stitch in your side.

The British Library's new exhibition, Propaganda: Power and Persuasion takes the journey from propaganda's known origins up until its modern manifestations. The exhibition is fun and informative – if only the curators had examined a little more about exactly who employs propaganda and rhetoric today.