Free exhibitions in London

Discover the best free exhibitions at London museums and galleries

London is awash with free exhibitions catering to every taste. Use our guide to find out what's on, from major museum shows to niche concerns in specialist galleries. Think we've missed a great exhibition? Tell us in the comments below.

Recommended exhibitions

Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite
Museums & Attractions Until Sun Sep 2, British Museum
The suite comprises 100 etchings produced by Picasso between 1930 and 1937.
Brains
Museums & Attractions Until Sun Jun 17, Wellcome Collection
Exploring perhaps the most complex and still mysterious object in the universe, the brain.
Out of Focus: Photography
Art Until Sun Jul 22, Saatchi Gallery
The Saatchi Gallery stages its first major photography exhibition since 2001.

More free exhibitions

Remote Control
Art Until Sun Jun 10, ICA
'Remote Control' features work by over 30 artists who have explored both the social and cultural impact (good and ill) and the physical presence in our lives of the television set.
Time Out First Thursdays
Art Until Thu Dec 6, Galleries in East London
Late night openings and events in galleries and museums in east London, taking place on the first Thursday of each month.
Tate Britain Commission 2012: Patrick Keiller
Art Until Sun Oct 14, Tate Britain
With this new commission for the cavernous Duveen Galleries, 'The Robinson Institute', filmmaker Patrick Keiller has created a perfect fit for Tate Britain.
Titian's First Masterpiece
Art Until Sun Sep 2, National Gallery
An exhibition centred around Titian's first major commission.
Sarah Lucas: Make Love
Art Until Fri Dec 21, Situation
Most arresting are two walls of breezeblocks, squashy and squirmy stuffed-hosiery body parts emerging from and re-entering one, a white vest gripped between the bricks of another.
Weighted Words
Art Until Sun Jun 10, Zabludowicz Collection
International artists chew over the multiple meanings of language.
Fourth Plinth: Elmgreen & Dragset
Art Until Apr 1 2013, Trafalgar Square
The latest Fourth Plinth commission is 'Powerless Structures, Fig 101' by the Scandinavian duo Elmgreen & Dragset.
Jeremy Evans: Book of Numbers
Art Until Fri Jun 22, dalla Rosa Gallery
Dalla Rosa Gallery lauches its new space with video and works on paper by Jeremy Evans that use lines, loops, layers and palindromes.
Henry Moore: Large Late Forms
Art Jun 1-Aug 18, Gagosian Britannia St
An exhibition, in collaboration with the Henry Moore Foundation, of large-scale sculptures by the British artist.
Rachel Whiteread
Art Jun 15-Feb 28 2013, Whitechapel Gallery
Artist Rachel Whiteread won the Turner Prize in 1993 after creating 'House' a cast of the interior of an East End terrace, and filled the Tate Turbine Hall in in 2005-6.

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By N. Al-Ageli - Nov 11 2011

I attended a private viewing last night at the Reading Room Gallery in Soho, of an exhibition called "A Thousand Words". It is a collection of paintings by the Colombian artist Dairo Vargas reflecting on childhood. Really worth going to and most proceeds will go to Barnardo's Charity. The show is on until December 9 and open Monday to Friday 9am-6pm. Free entry.