
The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in London this Summer
20 July 2025 • Tabish Khan
Jenny Saville, Hiroshige, an explosion, sign language and Leigh Bowery.

20 July 2025 • Tabish Khan
Jenny Saville, Hiroshige, an explosion, sign language and Leigh Bowery.

31 January 2025 • Tabish Khan
Colonialism, food, crime, Renaissance and contemporary art.

5 July 2024 • Tabish Khan
Michelangelo, barbed wire, Caravaggio, heat vision and sculpture.

6 August 2023 • Tabish Khan
Impressionism, gold, family, space and museums galore.

5 February 2023 • Tabish Khan
Iranian women, children of colour, Hieroglyphs, horror and Japan.

20 December 2022 • Mark Westall
This major exhibition at the British Museum will explore the relationship between luxury and power in the Middle East and southeast Europe between 550-30 BC.

22 August 2022 • Mark Westall
The British Museum is to exhibit eight ancient glass vessels which were damaged in the 2020 Beirut port explosion and… Read More

4 March 2022 • Mark Westall
In a first for the British Museum, a series of exciting new acquisitions by emerging British artists, will be the focus of… Read More

15 January 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see this month – this time they’re all in museums. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you

27 November 2021 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his top museum exhibitions to see this winter – all closing soon. Each one comes with a… Read More

24 September 2021 • Mark Westall
LaCollection, a new NFT art platform dedicated to museum and institutional collections, launches with an exclusive partnership with the British… Read More

21 February 2021 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks five art exhibitions to see online this month. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.

11 February 2021 • Mark Westall
Where we are… is a new innovative national programme for young people aged 16–24 to co-design meaningful local arts and cultural projects around the UK.

11 November 2020 • Mark Westall
The British Museum has announced it has been awarded a grant of £8.8 million from Arcadia to extend the EMKP for a further 7 years

2 November 2020 • Mark Westall
With just one day to go until the 2020 US Presidential election, the British Museum announces that it has acquired… Read More

19 January 2020 • Tabish Khan
String Theory, Pre-Raphaelites, a black eye, Sultans, fashion and bright lights.

28 December 2019 • Mark Westall
A year-long programme of events marking the 850th anniversary of one of the most shocking crimes in European history, the murder of Thomas Becket, are unveiled today. ‘Becket2020’

28 December 2019 • Tabish Khan
Anti-US propaganda, lots of sand, maternal grief, a memory palace and a wave of lights.

4 August 2019 • Tabish Khan
Destruction of heritage, explosions of colour, Manga, dark matter, writing, moon meditation and giant headphones.

21 July 2019 • Tabish Khan
A cathedral in Ghana, a scorpion / sphinx, Rembrandt, graffiti, urban exploring and stars.

7 July 2019 • Tabish Khan
A scream, denim landscapes, spiritual art, feathered entities, alone in an office and chunks of wood.

3 February 2019 • Tabish Khan
Killing lions, Medusa, a Gothic castle, Swastikas, a creepy house, glowing slugs and mountains.

11 January 2019 • Mark Westall
This April, the British Museum will present a major new exhibition on the work of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Edvard Munch: love and angst will focus on Munch’s remarkable and experimental prints

9 January 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
The dominant contemporary feature of the British Museum’s well-received received new Islamic Gallery* is a site-specific work by Idris Khan.