{"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": "Victoria and Albert Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history"], "description": "'Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires' is a major exhibition at the V&A transporting visitors to one of the world's great cities and its best-known landmarks, from the Hippodrome and Hagia Sophia to Topkapı Palace and the Galata Tower. Staged by the V&A, it explores 1,600 years of the city once called Constantinople and now Istanbul, the imperial and religious capital of the Byzantine (AD 330–1453) and Ottoman (1453–1922) empires, and the first exhibition in the UK to tell this story in full. It brings together rarely seen works dating back to the 4th century from the V&A collection and national and international loans, including fine silks and textiles, ceramic tiles, mosaics, tableware, precious metalwork and jewellery, sculpture, architectural furnishings, works on paper, manuscripts and paintings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pore-over-cabinets-of-ancient-treasures-at-the-vas-new-celeb-76913/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00Z", "end": "2027-05-09T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Victoria and Albert Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL London", "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", "tickets_url": "", "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. 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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": "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": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://canalmuseum.org.uk/picture-shop/", "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. 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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": "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, "tickets_url": "https://www.colnaghi.com/exhibitions/out-of-the-sand-ancient-egypt-rediscovered", "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": "Highlights Tour", "start": "2026-01-01T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-31T13:00:00Z", "place": "Sir John Soane's Museum", "address": "Lincoln's Inn Fields 13, WC2A 3BP London", "price": "£25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.soane.org/collections/tours-and-events/products/highlights-tour", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/architecture", "history"], "description": "The classic tour of Sir John Soane's Museum, taking you through the architect's extraordinary home, left as it was at his death in 1837. Led by expert guides, it explores spectacular rooms and treasures including paintings by Canaletto and J.M.W. Turner and a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus of an Egyptian King. 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His glamorous rock-and-roll designs, featuring distinctive prints by his collaborator and wife Celia Birtwell, made him an iconic and influential figure in 1960s and early 1970s London. Curated by Teresa Collenette and Dennis Nothdruft, it draws on a private collection covering Clark's career from early work to his later collections. Clark's skill in fit and form together with Birtwell's romantic prints inspired by the Ballet Russe and Art Deco created a legacy that still shapes style today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ossie-clark-celia-birtwell-36089/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/357cf24fc6405351210a5b01259bf755bd6d0d75d038bd2cf901e284e27e9498-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lost Worlds by Luxmuralis", "start": "2026-11-06T17:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Old Royal Naval College Visitor Centre", "address": "King William Walk", "price": "£22 (Adults), £16.50 (Concessions), £68 (Family)", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "22.00", "tickets_url": "https://ornc.digitickets.co.uk/category/61042", "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": "The Glorious 19th Century", "start": "2026-10-20T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Chris Beetles Gallery", "address": "8 & 10 Ryder Street, St James's, London SW1Y 6QB", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "history/19th-century"], "description": "An art exhibition titled The Glorious 19th Century, showing works from the nineteenth century, including watercolours and paintings by artists such as J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, Helen Allingham, Edward Lear and Thomas Rowlandson. It is held at Chris Beetles Gallery, an art gallery on Ryder Street in St James's, London, which presents the works with their artists and prices, some pieces already sold. The exhibition runs from 20 October to 7 November 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-glorious-19th-century-76452/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1583e292feba72fb461e11b45113a4aa6d898434399396e1bd0d1a48830a912-600.webp"}, {"title": "Highlights Tours – Ossie Clark + Celia Birtwell", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-23T00:00:00Z", "place": "Fashion and Textile Museum", "address": "Bermondsey Street 83, SE1 3XF London", "price": "£12.65 (Free (with exhibition ticket))", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://fashiontextilemuseum.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/83649?catID=71515", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/fashion"], "description": "A guided highlights tour of the exhibition Ossie Clark + Celia Birtwell, lasting about 45 minutes for groups of up to 15 people. It is led by volunteer guides from the Fashion and Textile Museum, who introduce the pieces on display and the historical context behind the exhibition. Visitors can ask questions in an informal group setting, and exhibition entry is included with the ticket.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/highlights-tours-ossie-clark-celia-birtwell-69761/", "official_url": "https://fashiontextilemuseum.org/museumevents/highlights-tours/?date_from=20261104&date_to=20261223", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e60d171b5372ef938c70737b803464c2573d258fb3a26fcf4f01ec627c4b181a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "So Last Century", "start": "2026-11-11T10:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Findings", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "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"}]}