Tate Britain
Price: Free

This free exhibition showcases Turner’s exploration of methods and techiniques, of colour and line. It follows Turner’s travels through Europe and his responses to different places, lighting and materials available. This ongoing exhibition will change exhibits every 6 months.

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Imperial War Museum
Admission: Free

Marking the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush to Britain, this exhibition tells the story of Black men and women from the West Indies and their involvment in WWI and WWII.

http://london.londinium.com/90056

Science Museum
Cost: Free

The exhibition has four sections focusing on 100 years of making plastics: The Birth of Plastics, Plastic Dreams, Plastics Now, and Plastic Futures.

http://london.londinium.com/88638

Science Museum
Cost: Free

This exhibition showcases ERNIE 1 – the first random number generator machine created for premium bonds. It explores its development and popularity, its link to the first digital electronic computer – the code-breaking Colossus – and the role of random numbers in computing today.

http://london.londinium.com/88636

Science Museum
Cost: Free

This exciting new temporary exhibition explores the role played by technology in creating post-war Britain.

http://london.londinium.com/88635

Take part in Fairtrade Fortnight 2009 and play your part by joining a powerful global movement for change!

Fair Trade have set up a series of events all over the capital city, with an aim of  creating better understanding and a more proactive approach to ethical trading, producing and consumption with in our own society and on a global level.
Two billion people – a third of humanity – still survive on less than $2 a day. Unfair trade rules keep them in poverty, but they face the global challenges of food shortages and climate change too. Fairtrade is a people’s movement for change that aims to tip the balance of trade in favour of poor producers. We all need Fairtrade more than ever and we all have the power to create positive change for people and planet.

Make it happen. Choose Fairtrade.

http://www.londinium.com/london/63299.html

A display of a recently acquired artwork by Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh, which offers a contemporary perspective on Iranian history, religion and culture.

Free

http://www.londinium.com/london/68772.html

This display brings together examples of jades and bronzes from the Shanghai Museum collections. Jades and bronzes are the most important objects from ancient China. They were used from very early times for sacred rituals and burials and were associated with spirits and ancestors; they were also of great political significance.

Free

http://www.londinium.com/london/68771.html

This major exhibition explores seventeenth-century Iran through the reign and legacy of one of its most influential rulers, Shah ʿAbbas I (reigned AD 1587–1629).

http://www.londinium.com/london/68727.html

For two thousand years the myth of Babylon has haunted the European imagination. The Tower of Babel and the Hanging Gardens, Belshazzar’s Feast and the Fall of Babylon have inspired artists, writers, poets, philosophers and film makers. Drawing on the combined holdings of the British Museum London, the musée du Louvre and the Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, and the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, the exhibition explores the continuing dialogue between the Babylon of our imagination and the historic evidence for one of the great cities of antiquity at the moment of its climax and eclipse.

http://www.londinium.com/london/68725.html

This exhibition will be the most significant overview of American artist Roni Horn’s work to date. Horn trained as a sculptor but this exhibition will show the full range of her practice as a photographer, draughtsman, installation artist and writer.

http://www.londinium.com/london/68665.html

Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism will explore the work of Alexander Rodchenko and Lyubov Popova between 1917 and 1929. Arguably two of the Russian avant-garde’s most influential and important artists.

http://www.londinium.com/london/68664.html

This visually sumptuous exhibition brings together some of the finest and most magnificent paintings that Van Dyck produced during his years in Britain. It also reveals his continuing visual legacy through portraits by artists from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including Sir Joshua Reynolds and John Singer Sargent.

http://www.londinium.com/london/68604.html

Altermodern is a  selection of new contemporary art presenting some of the best that current British art has to offer, alongside international artists who are working with similar themes. This year’s Triennial has been curated by Nicolas Bourriaud who co-founded the influential contemporary gallery Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2002.

http://www.londinium.com/london/68603.html

In Feburary Art Now will present a series of works by Hurvin Anderson (b.1965). Anderson’s paintings engage with the traditions of landscape painting and the history of abstraction.

http://www.londinium.com/london/68602.html

Darwin is the biggest ever exhibition about Charles Darwin. It celebrates Darwin’s ideas and their impact for his 200th birthday in 2009. Discover the man and the revolutionary theory that changed our understanding of the world. See incredible, revealing and rare exhibits, some on display for the first time.

http://www.londinium.com/london/6324.html

The annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition finds the very best wildlife images taken by the world’s top professional and amateur photographers.

http://www.londinium.com/london/6324.html

As nearly a billion people go to bed hungry again tonight, the question of feeding the world has never been more urgent. But is genetically modified food a good choice to have on the menu for our planet? Or does it leave you feeling queasy? This new exhibition explores the science and technology that could boost crop yields. Do we need GM to increase food production in the future, or are there other options? Weigh up the benefits and risks – then step up to the table and have your say. This exhibition is supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.

http://www.londinium.com/london/65673.html

The world of Japanese car design set against the backdrop of Japan’s unique culture is explored in a sophisticated new exhibition at the Science Museum, from 29 November 2008. Japan Car, an exploration of the car as a “mobile cell”, has been conceived by two world class names from outside the world of automobile: Kenya Hara, the man responsible for much of the success of Muji, and Shigeru Ban, the distinguished Japanese architect currently designing a new satellite gallery in Metz for Paris’ Pompidou Centre. The exhibition shows how Japanese car design reflects the ’soil and the spirit of Japan’, shown through concept cars and special home market models. Japan Car explores three themes while examining the future of mobility in cities. Japan, being both highly innovative and densely populated, can be seen as the driving force behind transport solutions for twenty-first century cities.

http://www.londinium.com/london/65673.html