Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Things to do in London in April 2024

The ianVisits guide to April's unusual events, tours, lectures and exhibitions happening around London.


Saturday 27th April

Normally you need to pay to visit the gardens, but on a few weekends a year, the gardens are free to visit.
2024-04-27
10am to 4pm
 
East Molesey
Free entry to Hampton Court Palace gardens
East Molesey
The Chelsea Physic Garden will have over 30 stalls selling plants, which gives you both a chance to buy a plant and to visit the Physic Garden for free.
2024-04-27
10am to 5pm
 
Chelsea
Chelsea Physic Garden Plant Festival
Chelsea
£22.00
A weekend of computer games. W.A.S.D is the central playable and interactive feature of London Games Festival.
2024-04-27
10am to 6pm
 
Whitechapel
W.A.S.D
Whitechapel
The two-day festival includes 100+ vintage fashion traders, rare classic cars and more.
2024-04-27
10am to 6pm
 
Kings Cross
Kings Cross
The Museum's depot in Acton will be open for three days, giving you the opportunity to explore our collections store, with its treasure trove of over 320,000 objects.
2024-04-27
10:30am to 5pm
 
Acton
Acton
An exhibition of quilts to celebrate this SE London quilting group's 25th anniversary.
2024-04-27
10:30am to 4pm
 
Lewisham
Lewisham
The counter-cultural publishing house presents an evening of eclectic authors, artists and musicians, including Jarvis Cocker, Sheena Patel and Musa Okwonga.
2024-04-27
Starts at 7:30pm
 
Southwark
Southwark

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Sunday 28th April

Normally you need to pay to visit the gardens, but on a few weekends a year, the gardens are free to visit.
2024-04-28
10am to 4pm
 
East Molesey
Free entry to Hampton Court Palace gardens
East Molesey
The two-day festival includes 100+ vintage fashion traders, rare classic cars and more.
2024-04-28
10am to 6pm
 
Kings Cross
Kings Cross
The Museum's depot in Acton will be open for three days, giving you the opportunity to explore our collections store, with its treasure trove of over 320,000 objects.
2024-04-28
10:30am to 5pm
 
Acton
Acton
A WW2-era history attraction that's open to the public once a month.
2024-04-28
10:30am to 4pm
 
Watford
Monthly open day at The 1940s Experience
Watford
Explore numerous stalls selling letterpress supplies, type and ornaments, paper, printed items, second-hand books and type specimens and lots more inky goodness.
2024-04-28
11am to 4pm
 
City of London
City of London
Once a month, the oldest building in Hackney, St Augustine's Tower is open, so you can climb up to the top.
2024-04-28
2pm to 4:30pm
 
Hackney
Monthly opening of St Augustine's Tower
Hackney
Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia.
2024-04-28
3pm to 4:30pm
 
Holborn
Holborn

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Monday 29th April

A guided tour of the unique and historic Stationers' Hall in the City of London.
2024-04-29
11am to 12:30pm
 
City of London
Occasional guided tour of Stationers' Hall
City of London
This panel debate will bring together a diverse group of policy-makers, senior infrastructure professionals, academics and other experts to debate the topic.
2024-04-29
6pm to 8pm
 
Pimlico
Pimlico
Boyajian's star, a faint and unprepossessing presence in the constellation of Cygnus, attracted astronomers' attention when it began to flicker alarmingly.
2024-04-29
7pm to 8pm
 
Holborn
Is it Aliens? The Most Unusual Star In The Galaxy
Holborn

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Tuesday 30th April

The UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering presents a showcase of the latest breakthroughs in health tech.
2024-04-30
5pm to 6:30pm
 
Euston
Euston
Can a flower make you feel hope? Explore the relationship between art and emotion as we look at pictures from the RHS & Tate art collections
2024-04-30
6:30pm to 8pm
 
Pimlico
Lindley Late - Art, Flowers and Emotion: Collections in Conversation
Pimlico

More London events on Tuesday 30th April

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