{"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": "V&A", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/decorative-arts", "history/byzantine-empire"], "description": "A major exhibition at the V&A takes visitors into the past of one of the world's great cities, once called Constantinople and now Istanbul. It explores 1,600 years of the city as imperial and religious capital of two successive empires, the Byzantine and the Ottoman, spanning AD 330 to 1922. Organised by the V&A, it is the first exhibition in the UK to tell this story in full, bringing together rarely seen works from its collection plus national and international loans. Expect fine silks and textiles, ceramic tiles, mosaics, tableware, precious metalwork, jewellery, sculpture, manuscripts and paintings, alongside landmarks like the Hagia Sophia and Topkapı Palace.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pore-over-cabinets-of-ancient-treasures-at-the-vas-new-celeb-132950/", "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": "V&A", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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. It blends entertainment, education and emotional storytelling for cultural explorers, immersive-experience fans and families alike.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/timewalk-immersive-experience-museum-36038/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/952cfb933408d6c160fde5e646ed45da68875f68af244bf6e45dafca0654cb30-1200.webp"}, {"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": "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. Alongside the Istanbul works there is a series from sketches made on the island of Iona in Scotland during a gale in 2025.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/phil-goss-the-ferry-to-kadikoy-34616/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/22d66d7f139de9148fe680ceee9026f0e796d778fb015b4fd503cf983699252a-2000.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": "Exhibition – Londoners on Trial: Crime, Courts and the Public 1244-1924", "start": "2026-03-09T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-25T00:00:00Z", "place": "The London Archives", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history"], "description": "This is a free exhibition about the history of law and order in London, from the medieval period to modern times. Hosted at The London Archives, it uses historical records to explore how the growing city was governed and Londoners' enduring fascination with true crime. Visitors can review cases involving figures such as Moll Cutpurse, Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard, Oscar Wilde and Sylvia Pankhurst, and see how records illuminate lives, homes and streets of London's past. 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": "Tour of the Bible in the British Museum", "start": "2026-11-14T09:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Birchwood Centre", "address": "Fortis Green Road 171, N10 3BG London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["religion/christian/bible", "history/antiquity"], "description": "A guided tour exploring how the Bible aligns with artefacts and texts from the ancient world, journeying through ancient lands, kingdoms and events. It covers the Old Testament in the British Museum, then moves to the British Library for the New Testament, early Bibles and medieval manuscripts, with a lunch break in between. Organised by St James Muswell Hill, it lasts about four hours with a morning start.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tour-of-the-bible-in-the-british-museum-79039/", "official_url": "https://stjamesmuswellhill.churchsuite.com/events/kaxmrwnm", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a9f87ccb3eb1079f31b6bb5fb7c6c9b6c014013cf065071bf8354dfc1b5e6d68-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-04-11T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Tate Britain", "address": "Millbank, SW1P 4RG London", "price": "FREE FOR MEMBERS", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "history"], "description": "A major art exhibition at Tate Britain celebrating the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, two of the most celebrated British artists of the twentieth century. Organised by Tate Britain in collaboration with Charleston, it explores the pair's creative partnership of more than 50 years and their legacy as core members of the Bloomsbury Group. Over 300 works are on show, including portraits, still lives, landscape paintings, ceramics and textiles, plus a restaging of the artists' studio relocated from their Sussex home, Charleston. The exhibition also traces the group's commitment to lives of freedom and radical experimentation, which shaped art, literature and societal thought in Britain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/vanessa-bell-duncan-grant-inside-bloomsbury-38884/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/vanessa-bell-and-duncan-grant", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0504dcb22ff839476bff9223ce57dbf2322c8a487006a725be8687562f7301a7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Temporary Exhibitions", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Canal Museum", "address": "New Wharf Road 12-13, N1 9RT London", "price": "Included with admission", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "Temporary Exhibitions at the London Canal Museum is a changing programme of short-term displays, usually two a year on subjects relating to canals and the ice trade. 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": "Unhemmed Book Launch & More Than a Bundle Story Exhibition Showcase", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Big Penny Social", "address": "Priestley Way 1, E17 6AL London", "price": "free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/migration", "literature"], "description": "A one-night-only exhibition celebrating Turkish migration, heritage and community in London, alongside the launch of Emel Sevinç's debut novel 'Unhemmed'. The exhibition, 'More Than a Bundle Story', is an oral-history and cultural-heritage project curated by Emel Sevinç that preserves the experiences of Turkish-speaking migrants who arrived in Britain from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, many of whom worked in the capital's textile and clothing industry. Through photographs, recorded testimonies, personal memories and everyday objects, it explores migration, work, family, sacrifice, identity and belonging. The novel, set within London's Turkish garment industry, brings history and fiction together for one special evening, and everyone is welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unhemmed-book-launch-more-than-a-bundle-story-exhibition-sho-42961/", "official_url": "https://bigpennysocial.co.uk/whats-on/unhemmed-book-launch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d92d2a1c48a1fd36cedd456504196889700b8dc14e3daa98ae5b111c6d7dac01-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lost Worlds by Luxmuralis", "start": "2026-11-06T17:45:00Z", "end": null, "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"}]}