{"title": "Pore over cabinets of ancient treasures at the V&A's new celebration of Istanbul's past", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00Z", "end": "2027-05-09T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "", "address": "", "price": "TBC", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/decorative-arts", "history/byzantine-empire"], "description": "'Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires' is a major exhibition at the V&A in South Kensington taking visitors into one of the world's great cities, exploring landmarks from the Hippodrome and Hagia Sophia to Topkapı Palace and the Galata Tower. It spans 1,600 years, from AD 330 to 1922, covering the city once called Constantinople and now Istanbul as the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires. This is the first UK exhibition to tell this story in full, bringing rarely seen objects from the 4th century onwards, drawn from the V&A collection and national and international loans. Expect fine silks and textiles, ceramic tiles, mosaics, precious metalwork and jewellery, sculpture, manuscripts and paintings revealing the creative legacy of an imperial capital that shaped the Mediterranean world and beyond.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pore-over-cabinets-of-ancient-treasures-at-the-vas-new-celeb-117189/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d512ca991e0cdfd4f9d32256d65077239139774d2f19a22ee70ca6652ba04889-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00Z", "end": "2027-05-09T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Heritage Gallery Exhibition: 1327 and the City of London", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-04-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "City of London Heritage Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/middle-ages"], "description": "Heritage Gallery Exhibition: 1327 and the City of London is a display of manuscripts and records from the City of London's archives, exploring how the accession of Edward III in 1327 was reflected in the governance and civic life of medieval London. It has been curated by The London Archives and features items from their collections, including Liber Horn, Edward III's 1327 charter, Letter Book E and The Great Chronicle of London. Highlights show how civic institutions documented and navigated a period of political change at the beginning of the young king's reign. The exhibition is open during regular Guildhall Art Gallery opening times.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/heritage-gallery-exhibition-1327-and-the-city-of-london-37600/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c6f41ab69efdca1615130f646b69d234fbfea8f91302b6acbe74b20483e19f59-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Timewalk Immersive Experience Museum", "start": "2026-07-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Excel", "address": "Western Gateway 1, E16 1XL London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history"], "description": "Timewalk is a large-scale immersive exhibition at ExCeL London that takes visitors on a storytelling journey through 12,000 years of history, bringing ancient civilisations from Babylon, Egypt, the Maya and Rapa Nui back to life through image, sound and architecture. Rather than presenting civilisations as isolated moments, it reveals the invisible threads that unite humanity across continents and centuries. The production features narration in 25 languages, with voices by David Schofield and Olivia Williams, plus a dedicated children's narration for younger visitors. 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Paid curator-led tours of the exhibition run on selected dates.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/exhibition-londoners-on-trial-crime-courts-and-the-public-12-37563/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af77e44b2b3c97fc7ab7ca2082948cdb2273965739813a3760df7d9cd9a59eeb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "K-culture: Korea at the British Museum", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "British Museum", "address": "Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG London", "price": "£18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/korea", "art"], "description": "An exhibition at the British Museum exploring 2,000 years of Korean creativity through sculpture, painting and decorative arts, from around 300 BC to the present day. It draws almost exclusively from the 23,000 works bequeathed in 2021 by the late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-Hee to the National Museum of Korea and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. The show presents the most comprehensive chronological survey of Korean visual and material culture seen in Europe for over 40 years, including many National Treasures or Treasures. Most of the objects, from ancient gold ornaments to contemporary works, have never been seen in the UK before.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/k-culture-korea-at-the-british-museum-70004/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/76d70d2a740a4d7c49e2133c11455500ab73adb31475973f8e7650abc3386c86-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Beyond Bayeux: Stories from the Middle Ages", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-07-25T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/middle-ages"], "description": "Beyond Bayeux: Stories from the Middle Ages is a ten-month season of talks, workshops and concerts exploring the lesser-known stories and mysteries of the medieval era, held at the French Institute in London. It celebrates the landmark Bayeux Tapestry exhibition at the British Museum. From the Norman Conquest to the story behind the Tapestry's loan, from la chanson de geste to l'amour courtois, it revisits the grand narrative of history and unravels a thousand and one stories. Historians, writers, artists, singers, musicians, dancers, storytellers and troubadours take audiences back to the medieval world and the intertwined histories of Britain, France and the wider European continent.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beyond-bayeux-stories-from-the-middle-ages-90540/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "PHIL GOSS: THE FERRY TO KADIKOY", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "8 Holland Street", "address": "Holland Street 8, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "PHIL GOSS: THE FERRY TO KADIKOY is an exhibition of paintings accompanied by hand-built and glazed ceramic works. The Bristol-based artist Phil Goss made the works after a research trip to Istanbul, prompted by his interest in the writing of the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk. He spent a week walking the banks of the Bosphorus and riding the passenger ferry between the city's two sides, filling sketchbooks with observations of the city and its inhabitants, and later developed these images in his studio using ink painting and woodblock printing. 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The current exhibition, Battlebridge Basin, is organised by the museum and tells the story of the water behind the museum over two hundred years, from coal, ice and jam to the boaters who live on it today. It began as a dock cut into a field from 1818 for a builder who wagered a private basin would raise his land's worth. The first-floor display uses archive photographs, maps and plans, a short film by Floating Films and a free digital guide, and is included with admission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/temporary-exhibitions-69964/", "official_url": "https://canalmuseum.org.uk/whatson/exhibition.htm", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2fb97ae760b1fc6437a4c1254caf3856ba93e0f3046aab331a6fc78bd02ed49f-600.webp"}, {"title": "Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now Exhibition", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Guildhall Art Gallery", "address": "Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE London", "price": "Pay What You Can", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry"], "description": "'Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now' is an exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery celebrating tapestry as a vibrant and evolving art form of the 21st century. Created in collaboration with Dovecot Studios, it brings together more than 20 artists, with works made through collaborations between Dovecot's master weavers and leading artists including David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare, Tania Kovats, Alberta Whittle, Rachel Maclean, Hurvin Anderson and Farshid Moussavi, alongside major new commissions. Presented to coincide with the Bayeux Tapestry's landmark return to the UK for the first time in almost 1,000 years, it invites visitors to rethink what tapestry can be and explore its continuing relevance today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-exhibition-37555/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2bd1f5acd97f097608e6c31cae9c62a91b0a88ccbe3f16bc28298c43ee73a56a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lost Worlds by Luxmuralis", "start": "2026-11-06T17:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T21:00:00Z", "place": "Old Royal Naval College Visitor Centre", "address": "King William Walk", "price": "£22 (Adults), £16.50 (Concessions), £68 (Family)", "price_from": "16.50", "price_to": "22.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation/light-art", "history"], "description": "Lost Worlds is an immersive light and sound experience, a walking journey through the Old Royal Naval College's baroque buildings and grounds, including the Painted Hall, Chapel, Undercroft and Colonnades. It is created by Luxmuralis, the artistic duo of artist and sculptor Peter Walker and composer David Harper, following their earlier show Time at the same site. The experience invites visitors to discover imagined and historical lost worlds, from the mythical cities of Atlantis and Troy to the age of dinosaurs, prehistoric cave art, and the vivid worlds of knights, castles and illuminated manuscripts. As part of the Painted Hall's 300th anniversary, bespoke projections reimagine Sir James Thornhill's masterpiece onto Sir Christopher Wren's dome, transforming the landmark into a canvas of light.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lost-worlds-by-luxmuralis-37516/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c47e3e7f50f154d92d28111b38a7951f1f0b9590a9586630d2d6ccb357bf844-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Out of the Sand: Ancient Egypt Rediscovered", "start": "2026-09-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Colnaghi", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/ancient-egypt"], "description": "Out of the Sand: Ancient Egypt Rediscovered is an exhibition of antiquities, works on paper and early photography devoted to the art and material culture of ancient Egypt and its later study and documentation. It is presented by Colnaghi at its London gallery. Spanning antiquity to the modern era, the exhibition traces how Egypt's monuments, objects and history have been preserved and understood across time. The works shown range from 19th-century paintings and photographs of temples and pyramids to Egyptian sculpture, reliefs and vessels, alongside historical books such as Maxime Du Camp's Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/out-of-the-sand-ancient-egypt-rediscovered-60317/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/93e74eef8202c5d919c5d66b09a4a88e4497c95e2057ed1150c0ec33cc3371ff-2000.webp"}, {"title": "So Last Century", "start": "2026-11-11T10:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Findings", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "markets", "tags": ["art/design", "community/flea-market"], "description": "So Last Century is a vintage fair popping up in London, offering a vast range of mid-20th century and vintage furniture, lighting, ceramics, glass, homeware, posters, prints, records and designer fashion. It has been run by So Last Century since 2015, holding popular fairs and markets twelve to eighteen times a year. Its current venues are located in Beckenham, Catford, New Cross and Dulwich, and it was a Finalist in the Best Market category of the Mayor of Lewisham Business Awards 2024 and 2025.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/so-last-century-41417/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7612177417ed9790d6d6ad34baa11269d996a4e150cab6ab0adcbc9d7a4ced36-2000.webp"}]}