Free events in London in January 2027: what’s on?

Friday, January 1, 2027

• Exhibitions

  until Feb 28, 2027

  Artist Focus: Issy Wood

  National Portrait Gallery · Trafalgar Square

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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  until Apr 25, 2027

  Becoming America: How Science Shaped a Nation

  Science Museum · South Kensington

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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  until Jan 24, 2027

  Bharti Kher at the V&A

  V&A South Kensington · South Kensington

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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  until Feb 28, 2027

  Childhood in War

  IWM London · Lambeth

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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  until May 30, 2027

  Degrees of Disruption: Vera Molnar and Generative Art

  V&A South Kensington · South Kensington

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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  until Mar 7, 2027

  Gathering Ground

  Tate Modern · Bankside

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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  until Jan 11, 2027

  Henri Cartier-Bresson Self-Published PhotoBook Award Shortlist

  V&A South Kensington · South Kensington

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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  until Apr 11, 2027

  Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui

  Tate Modern · Bankside

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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  until Oct 30, 2027

  Lost Music Venues

  V&A South Kensington · South Kensington

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Exhibitions

  until Mar 21, 2027

  Multiplied wonders: Italian Renaissance woodcuts

  The British Museum · Bloomsbury

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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  until Feb 5, 2027

  Nicole Eisenman

  Royal Academy of Arts · Piccadilly

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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  until Sep 17, 2027

  Sacred Treasures from Kyiv

  V&A South Kensington · South Kensington

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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  until Jan 17, 2027

  Tate Britain Commission 2026: Zineb Sedira: When Words Fall Silent, Cinema Speaks

  Tate Britain · Millbank

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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  until Jan 3, 2027

  The Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon

  V&A South Kensington · South Kensington

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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  until Apr 30, 2027

  Urushi Now: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer

  V&A South Kensington · South Kensington

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Exhibitions

  until Feb 7, 2027

  Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation

  National Portrait Gallery · Trafalgar Square

  • Exhibitions

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Friday, January 8, 2027

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  until Jan 9, 2027

  Our Latin Thing w/ Orquesta Mambarito (live)

  Fox and Firkin

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Everything on in London