{"title": "Reveries on Ruin Value and the Future of (a) Museum(s)", "start": "2026-06-19T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Sir John Soane's Museum", "address": "Lincoln's Inn Fields 13, WC2A 3BP London", "price": "Free to explore", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://collections.soane.org/ARC11740", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An online zine titled 'Reveries on Ruin Value and the Future of (a) Museum(s)', loosely modelled on pamphlets authored by Sir John Soane. It collects the research and collaborations of artist Simon Faride, who added an 'e' to his surname just as Soane did, during his 2025 Jerwood Artist Residency at the museum. The zine explores the concept of 'ruin value' (Ruinenwert), the desire to design a building to work both in its original form and later as a successful ruin, and playfully applies this notion to imagining potential museum futures. A collaborative scrapbook with contributions from museum staff, it presents the Soane Museum as a living place and pairs playful speculations with serious consideration of conservation and the long-term future of museums.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/reveries-on-ruin-value-and-the-future-of-a-museums-42031/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d7099b3bdb57a7cd793dd36681809d8553026577d7e785106eb61f8dab24b7fc-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-06-19T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Sir John Soane's Museum", "address": "Lincoln's Inn Fields 13, WC2A 3BP London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Michael Landy: Future Ruins", "start": "2026-10-14T11:24:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T11:24:00Z", "place": "Sir John Soane's Museum", "address": "Lincoln's Inn Fields 13, WC2A 3BP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "An exhibition of Michael Landy's drawings showing famous buildings in ruins, held at Sir John Soane's Museum. The artist, born in 1963, is known as one of the most talented draughtsmen of his generation and is better known for large installations and participatory works. His series was inspired by Joseph Michael Gandy's watercolour 'Architectural Ruins: A Vision', commissioned by Sir John Soane, and includes new work imagining the Museum itself in ruins alongside depictions of Mar-a-Lago, the New York Stock Exchange, Chatsworth House and places from Landy's childhood. Through the drawings he continues his decades-long exploration of capitalism, consumerism and destruction, showing architecture's shift from richness to decay and nostalgia.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/michael-landy-future-ruins-38602/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e9521f9fa7188ea8a4235deb015866825f5544c69b5161651f0c9b2cb070682f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Soane Museum Study Group: Harry Adams", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Sir John Soane's Museum", "address": "Lincoln's Inn Fields 13, WC2A 3BP London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.soane.org/collections/tours-and-events/products/soane-museum-study-group-harry-adams-wednesday-11-november-2026-18-00-19-30", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history"], "description": "A talk in the Soane Museum Study Group, an open forum where scholars present new research in architectural history or on the museum's collection. Dr Harry Adams, a curatorial and cataloguing trainee at Sir John Soane's Museum, reappraises John Soane's designs for the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Portugal Street, a building of 1821-25 that Dickens made famous as a 'badly lighted and worse ventilated' symbol of harsh insolvency laws. New cataloguing of the court's drawings reveals the compromises in its design and execution, and the talk asks whether it was really as bleak as its reputation. Afterwards, relevant drawings can be viewed in the Soane Museum Research Library.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/soane-museum-study-group-harry-adams-38609/", "official_url": "https://www.soane.org/whats-on/soane-museum-study-group-harry-adams", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9b6ba4d5c9211dbddfdc5525b7dddb98bec00e1cd54bcfcd62699e0b5a678f6a-1200.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. The tour lasts around 60 minutes and is suitable for ages 12+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/highlights-tour-38603/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/973c06d11571c34e9af07d687718fa3fa681e29a2a7127d5a3d44034012116a8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "post-", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Heights", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A studio exhibition titled 'post-' at Heights. Curated by AxisAxis, it presents new works by Libby Hoffenberg and Louis Caseley. Responding to AxisAxis' site in a rapidly redeveloping Elephant & Castle, it explores how sites of artistic and administrative labour are continuously transformed, repurposed and reappropriated in both public and private spaces. It inhabits the gap between the expectations of a visionary future and the realities of a present that has failed to deliver.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/post-39387/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/295dd877a837fb8698840de0d4bf2b5ee6e63d8b635486313a8ee58e928dc4af-600.webp"}, {"title": "Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.somersethouse.org.uk/events?K=Enclosure&StartDate=2026-09-24", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "film"], "description": "An exhibition pairing a newly commissioned film with a large-scale immersive installation in the Lancaster Rooms of the New Wing. It is the work of Jenkin van Zyl, an artist in residence at Somerset House Studios, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Somerset House Studios and HOME, Manchester. Set in a decaying facility once built for replication, where visitors could temporarily live the lives of others, it follows Mercy, a starlet whose likeness was lent to the programme, as she arrives to terminate her contract and the boundary between original and copy turns porous. The work explores a culture where technological advancement has outpaced our ability to make sense of it, asking what happens when systems built on desire and self-preservation outlast the conditions that created them. The exhibition contains references to and images of blood, death, and psychological distress and is not suitable for visitors aged 12 and under.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jenkin-van-zyl-enclosure-38680/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eb0db8af13099015f49f783e6b33cfc73d7fdf7b2013833c5907ac0dd735deb1-600.webp"}, {"title": "sounding towards - -", "start": "2026-07-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Mosaic Rooms", "address": "Cromwell Road 226, London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art"], "description": "Mosaic Rooms presents sounding towards – –, a five-month project turning the gallery into a site for listening, sonic experimentation and conviviality. It features an installation From–To by Gaza's Dahaleez Collective, Common Frequencies by El Warcha Collaborative Design Studio, and a rolling programme of artist takeovers by Bint Mbareh, 1000 Pounds to Survive Us, felix taylor and Aditi Jaganathan. Instruments, recording devices, books and listening stations remain available for use, misuse and re-use, and Sunday Jams run throughout the project, free, open and bookable in advance. Initiated and developed by Angelina Radaković in conversation with the artists, the project is an experiment in institutional openness, asking what kinds of collectivities can emerge through shared acts of listening and convening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sounding-towards-39449/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8b33793d4201d98c4d7b9cabed1e3652dd1766b5195edea21c65e4b0f099e98e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Relaxed viewing: EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG: Being Poetic Ruins Life", "start": "2026-11-04T11:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths, University of London Campus", "address": "SE14 6NW London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/goldsmithscentreforcontemporaryart", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A relaxed viewing session of Evelyn Taocheng Wang's exhibition 'Being Poetic Ruins Life', held at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art. The exhibition opens an hour early to prioritise visitors who may wish to visit with certain adjustments. Capacity is managed with reduced numbers, no large groups are admitted, and the volume on video and audio works is lowered. A relaxed breakout space is available in the carpeted Residents' space, with the team on hand to support visitors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/relaxed-viewing-evelyn-taocheng-wang-being-poetic-ruins-life-36270/", "official_url": "https://goldsmithscca.art/events", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1fcb645611a5fc741f23b8b33673e73b5b77f31b1c67c7cce038a9b094ed9b8e-1200.webp"}]}