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Museums and attractions in London: 2012 preview

The exhibitions and attractions we're most looking forward to in 2012

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    The Making of Harry Potter

    Until Mar 6 2013, Warner Bros Studio

    Bookings are being taken for this new attraction opening on March 31, 2012. The 150,000 square foot area includes two dedicated soundstages where the blockbuster film series was filmed over ten years, and visitors can walk...

  • Scott's Last Expedition

    Until Sun Sep 2, Natural History Museum

    Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica is the subject of the Natural History Museum's first major exhibition of 2012. Exploring the well-documented journey to the South Pole and the death of the Polar...

  • Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration

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    Until Sun Apr 22, V&A

    The Queen was a teenage princess when she first sat for the photographer Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) and his portraits over the following decades show her changing role as a mother and monarch. To mark the Queen's Diamond...

  • Titanic Remembered

    Free
    Until Sun Sep 30, National Maritime Museum

    The centenary of the sinking of RMS Titanic is celebrated in this small exhibition, which highlights the stories of some of those who survived the disaster through letters, photographs and personal objects gathered by...

  • Designing Women

    Until Sat Jun 16, Fashion and Textile Museum

    Subtitled 'The Art of Textile Design in Postwar Britain', this exhibition examines the new wave of industrial and commercial design that, in the years immediately following WWII, created an innovative and modern approach...

  • Brains

    Until Sun Jun 17, Wellcome Collection

    An exhibition exploring perhaps the most complex and still mysterious object in the universe, the brain. The show looks at the ways in which the brain has been treated, represented and interpreted from the sixteenth century...

  • Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite

    Free
    Until Sun Sep 2, British Museum

    An exhibition of Picasso's 'Vollard Suite', which has been recently acquired by the museum. The suite comprises 100 etchings produced by Picasso between 1930 and 1937. The predominant themes of the work are the sculptor's...

  • Mind the Map: Inspiring Art, Design and Cartography

    Until Sun Oct 28, London Transport Museum

    London Transport Museum's collection of maps from the past 100 years forms the basis of this exhibition, which uses maps and cartography to explore themes of journeys, identity and publicity. Historical material and...

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    Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950

    Until Jan 6 2013, V&A

    The redesigned, two-storey Fashion gallery opens with an exhibition of some 80 ballgowns created by British fashion designers over the past 60 years. The show looks at the history of the ballgown as the garment of choice...

  • Jubilee: A View from the Crowd

    Until Wed Oct 31, Kensington Palace

    Kensington Palace is closed between January 4 and March 25, 2012. The Palace's major exhibition for summer 2012 tells the story of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrated in 1897, from the perspective of the millions...

  • Ansel Adams: At the Water's Edge

    Nov 1-Apr 21 2013, National Maritime Museum

    A retrospective of the twentieth-century landscape photographer Ansel Adams. The exhibition, which focuses on the photographer's life-long fascination with water, features images of seascapes, rapids, waterfalls, geysers,...

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